OGC Testbed 12 - Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure
The Arctic Spatial Data Pilot (Arctic SDP) was initiated to demonstrate the diversity, richness and value of providing geospatial data using International Standards in support of Spatial Data infrastructures and how they help stakeholders to gain new perspectives into social, economic, and environmental issues, by providing an online network of resources that improves the sharing, use and integration of information tied to geographic locations in North America, the Arctic, and around the world. Further, pan-Arctic science, monitoring, and societal, economic, and environmental decision support are improved with increased data sharing. In a reciprocal process, the Arctic SDP will help to generate a better understanding of how the national spatial data infrastructures can be developed and applied to support Arctic priorities. By implementing consistent means to share geographic data among all users, costs for collecting and using data can be significantly reduced while decision-making is enhanced. To be successful, the Arctic SDP has to take particular requirements into account; such as the unique environment it is located in with zero/low bandwidth at some places or the specific situation of the frontier economy. All those aspects are addressed by the OGC Interoperability Program project “Arctic Spatial Data Pilot”.
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