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Publishing SAFORAH Thematic Data for Decision Making in the Sustainable Development of Canada's Forests
This project will develop a standard web service endorsed for the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). The service will increase the availability and use of location-based or “geospatial” data in an online data management system known as “SAFORAH” (System of Agents for Forest Observation Research with Advanced Hierarchies).
The project will help decision-makers ensure the sustainable development of Canada's forests and will assist Canada in meeting its national and international forest-reporting obligations. These obligations include national forest inventories; forest carbon monitoring, accounting, and reporting; and programs for land cover mapping, change monitoring, and sustainable development.
SAFORAH comprises a series of distributed databases for archiving, disseminating,
and protecting Canada's Earth observation forest data acquired from satellite,
aircraft, and other remote-sensing sources. By leveraging CGDI technology, data,
and services, SAFORAH will provide ready access to current, consistent, and
reliable forest resource information. SAFORAH will also reduce costs by sharing
information technology and eliminating duplication in reporting. Consequently,
users will be able to make decisions about forest applications more intelligently
and cost-effectively than would be possible otherwise.
Primary Partner:
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre
Victoria,
British Columbia;
Partners: Environment Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; University of Victoria; Common Information Technology Services, British Colombia Ministry of Management Services; Centre for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, USA
Funding From GeoConnections: $75,000.00 ( 50.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: January, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: September, 2007
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: All provinces