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Canada’s Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure

Canadian Hydrographic Conference May 2016

• Dr. Kian Fadaie/Dr. Claude Guay

What are the Pillars of the SDI

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Data and Metadata: comprise the information to be made accessible Information System/Technology: which encompasses the hardware, software and system component. Standards: which emphasizes the “unlocking” of geospatial data. Policy and Governance: which dictates the structural relationships of all those involved.

Data in a Marine Environment

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Heritage Protection Cables and Pipelines Shipping Fishing Zone Recreation Marine Protected Areas Renewable Energy Aquaculture Ocean Disposal Oil and Gas

Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Terms

• Aquaculture
• Baselines
• Coastal
• Coastline/Shoreline
• Contiguous Zone
• Continental Shelf
• Exclusive Economic

Zone

• Fisheries
• Marine Environment
• Marine Protected

Areas

• Marine Navigation
• Maritime Collisions
• Maritime Salvage
• Oceans
• Shipping
• Sea
• Territorial Sea/Waters
• Waters

606 Acts and Policies

• Canada Marine Act
• Canada National Parks

Act

• Canada Shipping Act
• Criminal Code
• Fisheries Act
• Marine Liability Act
• Oceans Act
• Species at Risk Act
• Yukon Act
• 597 Additional Acts,

which contain key terms…

1434 Regulations and Orders

• Aquaculture Activities

Regulations

• Bowie Seamount

Marine Protected Area Regulations

• Charts and Nautical

Publications Regulations

• Fishery (General)

Regulations

• Foreign Vessel Fishing

Regulations

• Small Vessel

Regulations

• 1428 Additional

Regulations which contain key terms… Identified in Shaping Establishing

Land vs Marine SDI

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Pillars

Land SDI Marine SDI

Information system- Technology:

Common to both SDI

• Data base
• Infrastructure
• Delivery methods
• Communications means

Data / Metadata:

Land SDI

• Roads
• Land cadastre
• Utilities
• Toponymies
• Boundaries
• Elevations

Marine SDI

• Traffic separation schemes/

Shipping Lanes

• Marine cadastre
• Bathymetry
• Guides to navigation
• Time series datasets
• Dynamic products

Standards:

Land SDI

• Metadata standards:

ISO 19115, HNAP2

• Data standards:

ISO 19152, …

Marine SDI

• Metadata standards:

ISO 19115, HNAP2

• Data standards:
• ISO 19152,
• IHO S-57, S-100, S-121

Policies / Governance:

Land SDI

• Sovereignty/Security
• Land Transport
• Land based natural ressource
• Environmental Management
• …

Marine SDI

• Sovereignty/Security
• Safe Navigation
• Maritime Transportation
• Marine Protected Areas
• Fishing rights
• Oil and mining
• …

Harnessing Data (Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure MSDI)

Application Themes Business, Industries, Tourism Defence and Intelligence Education Government Environment Fisheries Natural Resources Public Safety Transportation Utilities and Communication Initiatives Targeted Ocean Mapping

• Oil, Gas, Mineral Exploration
• Marine Geoscience and Bathymetric data

Marine Cadastre

• Taxation & Ownership & Property Rights and Usages

Law of the Sea Data Architecture

• Official Maritime limits and Boundaries, Treaties, Agreement, etc.

Navigation Safety + Security

• Marine transportation corridors (Hydrographic Data) search and rescue

Risk & Emergency Management

• Tsunami early warning system

Fisheries + Marine Ecosystem Management

• Ecosystem Science Information
• Sustainable fisheries
• Aquaculture

International Councils

• (ICES) International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

Status of MSDI’s Around the World

• Canada led a study on the status of MSDI around the world.
• Web Mapping Service is planned or offered by most nations, all ISO

compliant.

• Access to Feature Data: 7 operational and 4 planned.
• Web Coverage Data: 4 operational and 4 planned.
• Web Processing Service: 4 operational and 3 planned.

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Status of MSDI in Canada

• CHS

commissioned three pilot projects to demonstrate the feasibility of a Canadian MSDI.

• These three pilot projects use standards and methods that were put

in place by the Federal Geospatial Platform (FGP).

• The pilot sites were the Bay of Fundy (Atlantic), the Dixon Entrance

(Pacific) and the Beaufort Sea (Arctic).

• Data was gathered from various sources.

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CHS Pilot Project Locations

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Location: Dixon Entrance Coast: West Area: 10,000 sq.Km Location: Bay of Fundy Coast: East Area: 19,000 sq.Km

CHS Pilot Project – Extended to the Arctic

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The main objective of this work is to:

• Develop and integrate marine cadastre data (S-121 / ISO 19152).
• Implement a more sophisticated infrastructure (WMS/WFS), tying in data

seamlessly from various government databases. Location: Beaufort Sea Coast: Artic Area: 19,000 sq.Km

Challenges of Implementation For Canadian MSDI Pilot Projects

There were several challenges which were encountered throughout this project. The main challenges were:

• Capturing Consistent Metadata
• Data Formats and Content
• Data Visualization

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Key findings:

• Providing access to the data is not sufficient. The information needs

to be live and easy to understand and easy to integrate.

• Providing data access to source data is key, but it is only useful to

those with the capabilities to use it.

• As with many online services, the upper layers that are readily

available are predigested information organised by themes. What you need is what you can use!

• The focus is simplicity of understanding and improved user

experience.

• A successful MSDI should not increase pressure on IHO or data

provider.

• It should not create more questions, but rather should focus on

providing more answers.

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Canadian Example Demonstration

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Next Steps Canada

• Continue development in pilot areas
• Develop applications to support different uses. For example MPA

and Marine Cadastre.

• Link the MSDI project to the Federal Geospatial Platform.
• Continue to work with partners both international (IHO, IMO, IHO

member nations) and domestically (SLGO, Federal Departments, DFO Science)

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Next Steps International

• IHO Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Working Group is heavily

involved in development of standards to support MSDI projects.

• Working Group consists of 26 member states, with diverse

participants.

• Significant work towards construction of an MSDI has been

completed by some member states, for example:

1. Australia – AMSIS 2. Germany – INSPIRE 3. Greece – HNHS Geo-Portal 4. Japan – CiesNet and Marine Cadastre 5. Netherlands – Geonovum 6. UK – MEDIN, Bathymetry DAC 7. USA – FGDC, NOAA’s NCEI

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