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The Arctic SDI

- A circumpolar initiative -

Moscow, September 28, 2011

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Martin SkedsmoProject Management Group

Lantmäteriet – Norwegian Mapping Authority

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The Arctic

1/6 of the worlds land mass Vast wilderness areas Unique biological diversity Largest freshwater

resources (with Antarctic) Unique and diverse

indigenous cultures

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The Arctic

Coverage

The Arctic SDI is to cover the Arctic regions of the involved participating countries, as defined by the countries themselves.

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Background- Arctic Council -

The Ottawa Declaration of 1996 formally established the Arctic Council as a High level intergovernmental forum – Foreign Ministers SAO – Senior Arctic Officials from the Arctic Countries Consensus based body Promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among Arctic States Including the involvement of the Arctic Indigenous communities and other

Arctic inhabitants 6 Working Groups - CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna)

representing the working groups. The Chairmanship is rotating – every second year Sweden has just taken over the Chairmanship www.arctic-council.org

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Why Arctic SDI ?Wide array of spatial data

around the ArcticDatasets are distributed

throughout many organisations often not integrated or coordinated

Arctic SDI would allow for more robust management and manipulation of data for both research and management purposes.

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Background - where did it all start?- first ideas of an Arctic SDI -

GITBarentsIPY GeoNorth 2007 (Yellowknife)GeoNorth II 2009 (Fairbanks)Arctic Council – paper from CAFF

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Geographic Information Technology within the

Barents Region1998 – 2008

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A co-operation project between the Federal & Regional Mapping and Cadastral Authorities within the Region

- 4 Countries, 4 Mapping Organisations -

EU and national financing

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GIT Within the Barents Region

- main goals - Production of homogenous & uniform geographic

information within the region development and implementation of internet-based

technology for effective access and distribution of geographic information within the region

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The Barents GDB1:1 000 000

no new mapping efforts have been executed existing national map databases have been used and

compiled common feature Catalogue the new database is a homogenous geographic (GIS

compatible) map database

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The experiences gained during the GIT Barents project might be applicable also when building an Arctic SDI!

The Barents SDI is up & runningwww.gitbarents.com

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Background- Arctic SDI support -

Arctic SDI discussions have been ongoing for a number of years.

The Arctic SDI initiative received, after a request from the Nordic Mapping Organisations, the formal support of the Arctic Council at its Senior Arctic Officials (SAO) meeting in November 2009

Support of all the eight Arctic Council countries i.e. Canada, Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden and the United States

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Background- the long and winding road -

“Arctic SDI road trip 2008 – 2011” Rotterdam 2009 (GSDI) Fairbanks 2009 (GeoNorth) Copenhagen 2009 (SAO) Concept Paper 2009 (Kiruna) Moscow 2010 (Rosreestr) Reston 2010 (USGS/NRCAN) Brussels late 2010 (Kick off) Singapore late 2010 (GSDI) Reykjavik April 2011 (Constitutional meeting) Cambridge conference June 2011 Advisory Group – meetings 2011 Moscow September 2011

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The Arctic SDI- the vision -

An Arctic SDI – based on sustainable co-operation between mandated national mapping organisations – which will provide for access to spatially related reliable information over the Arctic to facilitate monitoring and decision making

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The Arctic SDI- user driven approach -

Four main categories of users identified: The Arctic Council Working Groups (AC WGs).

Research groups within the International Polar Year and other scientific communities engaged in Arctic research.

Government and governmental authorities involved in decision making processes concerning the Arctic.

Media and the public including NGOs.

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Data

Arctic SDI Portal

NMA nationalreference data

Thematic data

Media, Public & Education

Arctic Council Working Groups and other Scientific Communities

Governmental Authorities

Analysis Decision Environmental& other political

issues

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PROJECT FRAMEWORK- Project phases

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Structuring Phase 2010/2011

Operational Phase 2012/2013

Establishing Phase 2011/2012

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Project Organisation

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Working Group B(Reference and

Metadata)

Steering Committee

(NMA’s ASDI coordinators)

Advisory Group- acknowledged professionals -

The Board (NMA’s DG or corresponding

managerial level)

Reference group:

Arctic council LiaisonCAFF WG

Working Group A(Technical)

Project Management

GroupNMA

Decision making bodies

Executive bodies

Working Group C(Data Access Terms)

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The Board Magnús Guðmundsson; Director General, NLS of

Iceland, Chair – on behalf of the Nordic NMAs (Denmark (Faeroes), Finland, Greenland Iceland, Norway, Sweden)

Canada – to be announced Sergej Vasiliev – Director General, Rosreestr, The

Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Mapping

Carl Markon, Deputy Regional Executive – Alaska Area, US Geological Survey, USA

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The Advisory Group

Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa

Jarmo Ratia, Director General of NLS, Finland Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director European

Environment Agency Robert Corell, Principal, Global Environment and

Technology Foundation and Chair of GSA Abbas Rajabifard, President GSDI, Associate Professor,

University of Melbourne.

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The Reference Group

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The Arctic Council and its Working Groups, represented by CAFF, are participating in the Arctic SDI project work as Reference Group, representing the user community and thus exercising influence on the project and its results.

The Reference Group representative can be co-opted to the Steering Committee as required.

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Working Groups

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Proposed Working Groups: Working group A will be responsible of design,

architecture and standards for development of the Arctic SDI based on use of open source technology.

Working group B will be responsible of establishing a catalogue of existing and available reference data, specifications included and metadata.

There is a need for Working group C responsible of Data Access Terms.

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PROJECT FRAMEWORK- Expected results -

Examples:Access to relevant and updated

geographic and thematic information covering the entire circumpolar region

Daily use of the project's web map services in schools and universities in the Arctic and elsewhere.

Possibilities for media to receive relevant and updated information

Possibilities to foster cooperation with industry on Arctic issues

Arctic SDI Future aspects

Establishing phaseOperational phaseManagementUser groups/Data providersSatellite images

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Arctic SDI meeting in Moscow 12 – 13 September, 2011

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