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Tit le, Author

The Emerging Need of an Efficient Spatial Data Sharing to Study The State of River Basin by Monitoring and Reporting

Using GIS

Rodolfo Silva – Lars Ribbe – Rui Pedroso

INSPIRE 2013

Agenda

1. About the ITT

2. Spatial data and the river basin research

3. ITT Spatial Data – Needs

4. The idea

5. Spatial Data Infrastructure

6. The challenges

7. Next steps

8. Benefits

1. About the ITT

• Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics

• Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Germany)

• Area of Research and postgraduate education: Regional Natural Resources Management (Land, Water, Energy)

• Staff – 70 members

1. About the ITT

• Projects - Partners - Alumni

2. Spatial data and the river basin research

• Some of ITT‘s projects…

I. Climate Change, Landscape dynamics, Land use and Natural Resources in the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro (DINARIO)

II. Optimizing Water Allocation in Rural Areas of Lake Nasser – Upper Egypt (OWARA)

III. Land Use and Climate Change Interactions in Central Vietnam (LUCCi)

3. ITT Spatial Data – The needs

• Saving spatial data created and making it available for future users

• Reducing the loss of information

• Harmonisation of the existing data

• Access to spatial data of partner Universities

4. ITT Spatial Data Infrastructure – The Idea

• Contribution of the INSPIRE idea

• Support students and researchers writing reports and other scientific documents

• Educate ITT students on handling spatial data/metadata and make them aware of the value of SDI

• SDI Support Team

5. ITT‘s Spatial Data Infrastructure

User Interface

Template of Metadata and Spatial Data

Catalog Server

Catalog Gateway

Spatial Data and Metadata

ITT User

Administrator

Access Download

Upload

Search

Monitoring

6. ITT Spatial Data Infrastructure - Challenges

Steps to overcome:

• Guideline for data sharing and metadata information system



Steps to overcome:

• Collecting data

- User availability

- User-friendly Interface

- Help tools



Steps to overcome:

• Monitoring

- Availability of skilled human resources

- Data sharing access permissions

- Rigorous monitoring



Steps to overcome:

• Spatial data credibility

- Data source

- Verifying the quality of data

- Impact on future thesis and projects



Steps to overcome:

7. ITT Spatial Data Infrastructure - Next steps

• ITT’s GeoPortal (Geospatial Data Visualization): Online Mapping tool in ITT’s user interface

• Connecting our SDI to a Virtual Center

• Implementing the INSPIRE idea in the academic world: geographical information structure connecting knowledge between universities

8. ITT Spatial Data Infrastructure - Benefits

• Orientation tool for students

• Improve research by supporting modeling and other analytical purposes

• Allow the visualization and interpretation of results and data reporting from ITT scientists around the world

• Raise the knowledge level of ITT students in their MSc.-Thesis and PhDs

• Current students will enlarge the pool of information available for the next generations

• A solid spatial data will facilitate decision making in benefit of stakeholders and the population

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