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AN: IN51A-0110 [Abstracts]
TI: Community Needs Assessment and Portal Prototype Development for an Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI)
AU: * Wiggins, H V
EM: helen@arcus.org
AF: ARCUS, 3535 College Road, Suite 101, Fairbanks, AK 99709, United States
AU: Warnick, W K
EM: warnick@arcus.org
AF: ARCUS, 3535 College Road, Suite 101, Fairbanks, AK 99709, United States
AU: Hempel, L C
EM: monty_hempel@redlands.edu
AF: University of Redlands, PO Box 3080
1200 E. Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92373, United States
AU: Henk, J
EM: jordan_henk@redlands.edu
AF: University of Redlands, PO Box 3080
1200 E. Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92373, United States
AU: Sorensen, M
EM: mark_sorensen@redlands.edu
AF: University of Redlands, PO Box 3080
1200 E. Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92373, United States
AU: Tweedie, C E
EM: ctweedie@utep.edu
AF: University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, TX 79968-
0513, United States
AU: Gaylord, A G
EM: nunatech@usa.net
AF: Nuna Technologies, PO Box 1483, Homer, AK 99603, United States
AB:
As the creation and use of geospatial data in research, management, logistics, and education applications has
proliferated, there is now a tremendous potential for advancing science through a variety of cyber-infrastructure
applications, including Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and related technologies. SDIs provide a necessary and
common framework of standards, securities, policies, procedures, and technology to support the effective
acquisition, coordination, dissemination and use of geospatial data by multiple and distributed stakeholder and
user groups. Despite the numerous research activities in the Arctic, there is no established SDI and, because of
this lack of a coordinated infrastructure, there is inefficiency, duplication of effort, and reduced data quality and
search ability of arctic geospatial data. The urgency for establishing this framework is significant considering the
myriad of data that is being collected in celebration of the International Polar Year (IPY) in 2007-2008 and the
current international momentum for an improved and integrated circum-arctic terrestrial-marine-atmospheric
environmental observatories network. The key objective of this project is to lay the foundation for full
implementation of an Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) through an assessment of community needs,
readiness, and resources and through the development of a prototype web-mapping portal.
DE: 1640 Remote sensing (1855)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting