Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)-In-A-Box, a Footprint to Deliver Geospatial Data through Open Source Applications.

Presentation | Presented

  • Aaron Peeke-Vout, Canadian Forest Service - Natural Resources Canada
  • Brian Low, Canadian Forest Service - Natural Resources Canada

The [SDI]-In-A-Box, developed by Canada’s National Forest Information System (NFIS Canada) at the Pacific Forestry Centre, is an initiative designed to provide an infrastructure supporting Web-based access, analysis, synthesis, reporting and distribution of information holdings on a distributed network of servers via open source software solutions.

The infrastructure adheres to the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI - http://cgdi.gc.ca/Welcome.do) initiative and international standards such as Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC - http://www.opengeospatial.org) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and supports the following functionality:

• spatial and non-spatial data storage,
• spatial and non-spatial publication,
• linkages to other warehouses,
• retrieval of warehouse data,
• access control capabilites,
• multi-temporal and multi-resolution views of warehouse data,
• data synthesis and analysis capabilities, and
• reporting, display and visualization of raw, processed and abstracted data.

[SDI]-In-A-Box is deployed in a national information infrastructure to leverage and safeguard information assets of NFIS partners in support of science and policy mandate including sustainable forest management, while being generic enough to be used throughout other Government, and Non-Government Agencies.

Authors: Aaron Peeke-Vout, Brian Low

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