Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (Arctic SDI)
Arvo Kokkonen, Jani Kylmaaho & Heli Ursin
Understanding and responding to the impacts of climate change and human activities in the Arctic, a unique area among the Earth?s ecosystems, requires accessible and reliable data to facilitate monitoring, management, emergency preparedness and decision making. Often it is difficult and costly to find, access and combine useful datasets for a project since they are collected and managed by many different organizations. The Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (Arctic SDI), was established to address the need for readily available spatial data in the northern areas of the globe. The Arctic SDI is working with stakeholder organizations to make their key data accessible, with a focus on the Arctic Council and its working groups. The Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure is a collaboration between the 8 National Mapping Agencies of Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA and Denmark. The initiative is based on a voluntary multilateral cooperation and focused on accessible authoritative geospatial reference data. There is a signed Memorandum of Understanding towards collaborative development of the Arctic SDI. The Arctic SDI Geoportal is based on Oskari (http://www.oskari.org), which is an open source framework - originally developed in the National Land Survey of Finland - for browsing, sharing and analyzing of geographic information, utilizing in particular distributed spatial data infrastructures. The framework is used as a basis of the Arctic SDI Geoportal as well as a significant number of other geoportals, Web GIS applications and eGovernment services.
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