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Renewed GeoConnections
The 2010 Federal Budget announced renewed funding for the GeoConnections program. The Budget provides $11 million in funding over the next two years to continue development of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and to provide consolidated geographic-related information to Canadians via the Internet.
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Developing Integrated Geospatial Tools Needed by Coastal and Oceans Managers in the Transboundary Gulf of Maine Region
This project will create a decision-support system to deliver useful data and information to coastal and oceans managers to aid decision making in the transboundary Gulf of Maine region. This Internet-based system employs location-based, or “geospatial”, information that will help users understand important environmental attributes of this region, identify changes in those attributes, and assess their efforts to effectively manage issues such as coastal pollution.
The short-term objectives are to integrate environmental and other related information that is currently housed in many different locations and provide end-users with one-window Internet access to the data. In addition, a variety of new tools will help view and interpret the data. As well, the development and sharing of key indicators of ecosystem change is an important aspect of the project that will aid decision making. The long-term objective is to build the capacity of coastal managers to make decisions that place local conditions in a broader, regional context.
The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) offers a standards-based technical framework that will enable end-users to learn about and access geospatial data, and to integrate that data into products that can help users take appropriate management actions as well as evaluate the results of those actions. By implementing CGDI-endorsed technologies and bridging those technologies with other standards-based systems, the project will be able to provide important data products to the wider Gulf of Maine community.
This initiative will support decision-makers in achieving environmental sustainability for the Gulf of Maine region.
Primary Partner:
Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
Jefferson,
Maine,
USA;
Partners: Gulf of Maine Ecosystem Indicators Partnership; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; United States Environmental Protection Agency; National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration; Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System; Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee; Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership
Funding From GeoConnections: $150,000.00 ( 50.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: April 1, 2006
Estimated Completion Date: January 30, 1998
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: New Brunswick; Nova Scotia;