EROS DATA CENTERLarry L. Tieszen

International Program

U.S. Geological SurveyEROS Data Center

1. Acquire, Archive, and Distribute Remote Sensing Data2. Support Global Res. and Dev. (FEWS, Land Cover)3. Develop Applications for Monitoring & Nat. Res. Mgt.4. Implement Internet Data Distribution and Map Serving Systems5. Cooperative Projects and Capacity BuildingSustainable Development in the Application of new Geospatial

Technologies

A Mesoamerican and Caribbean Geospatial Alliance(MACGA) 

Larry L. Tieszen (tieszen@usgs.gov)International Programs, U.S.Geological Survey/EROS Data Center

-Honorable Minister

-Caribbean Officials-IACD &USD of OAS (Jan Vermeiren)

-OFDA/USAID (Julie Leonard)

-CDERA (Liz Riley)

-USSouthcom (Earnie Paylor)

-UWI (Jacob Opadeyi)

-ESRI, NASA, NGA, WRI, +

SPECIAL THANK YOU

“Use of Geo-Spatial Technology for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean”St. Vincent & the Grenadines18 March, 2004

1. Facilitate Regionally Consistent Geospatial Data Development, Access, Dissemination;

2. Support Applications; 3. Achieve Development Objectives; and4. Secure Access to Data and Resources

1. Software, 2. Source Data, 3. Technical Specialists4. Derived Project or other Data5. Regional Network, Users Group, Specialists

5. Stimulate Planning, Cooperation, and Integration

Mesoamerican and Caribbean Geospatial Alliance (MACGA)

Overall Goals for MACGA (Mesoamerica and Caribbean:

MACGA Caribbean: Specific Activities & Objectives

• Provide capacity-building and technical assistance in geospatial technologies.

• Facilitate the implementation of GIS Web Services in each MAC country.

• Promote the development of public domain digital core data sets

• Promote appropriate use of common standards and methods in spatial data production, cataloguing, and dissemination.

• Strengthen existing SDIs and cataloguing systems, and foster the establishment of new ones.

• Help establish a network of GIS peers in the region for professional support and development.

• Foster harmonization and integration of spatial data sets in the region.

1. The Premise: • We are in the midst of developing Transforming

Technologies• Potential to support significant sustainable development

2. What are these Transforming Technologies?:1. Remote Sensing in near real-time as a “Public Good,”2. GPS and related developments and capabilities,3. GIS tools, models, and decision aids that are web-based,4. Facile use of the Internet for access to data, information,

understanding, and commercial transactions.3. The Hope….:4. The Concern….:

MACGA Presents Trasforming Technologiesas Public Goods:

1. The Premise: • We are in the midst of developing Transforming

Technologies• Potential to support significant sustainable development

2. What are these Transforming Technologies?:3. The Hope….:The advent of on-line internet services, e.g., data access,

internet map serving, querying, analyses and simulations, and even commerce has the potential to distribute the benefits of the technology equitably across countries and out of the domain of technical gurus. However, this potential widespread application will depend upon ready access to meaningful data and information that is user friendly, available at nearly any time, and accessible in nearly any place. Such a widespread spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a public good.

4. The Concern….:

MACGA Presents Trasforming Technologiesas Public Goods:

1. The Premise: • We are in the midst of developing Transforming

Technologies• Potential to support significant sustainable development

2. What are these Transforming Technologies?:3. The Hope….:4. The Concern….: Although many have suggested that we now live in a

global information economy, it is not clear that the advantages of this global information economy are readily available to the developing world – nor for that matter, that the integration and coordination of these technologies in development strategies or projects is adequate or even seen as a priority.

MACGA Presents Trasforming Technologiesas Public Goods:

Vision: A Paradigm for a “Functional Global Data Infrastructure.” (How does the Caribbean Build One?)

CPACC

Standards, Interfaces, Data models, Operational agreements

Data Sources & Core Data

Metadata Clearinghouse Access & Discovery Services

Modeling, Application , and Querying Tools

Portals, Projects, and Programs

Carib.net Geography Network

CIESIN GeoNetwork

CDERA FEWS

Adapted from Doug Nebert, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Secretariat, 2001.

(This is “a Browser and The Internet accessing and producing data, information, and understanding - and supporting transactions”)

A Little History: Results of Mitch Disaster

Evaluation Meeting of IDB/SICA(CCAD), San Salvador

Disasters were common to all countries and recurring, Disasters were partly man-made, trans-boundary, Need for data and information, Need for ready access to data, Request for Clearinghouse and Data Distribution Support, Need for Data Integration, and Desire to cooperate and integrate = Regional

(Hurricane Georges, recent flooding/landslides, and flooding impacts on food security in Haiti suggest similar needs in the Caribbean.)

Can We Meet the Challenge of These Great Opportunities for Spatial Data

Applications in the Caribbean??

1. Share our interests and capabilities,2. Identify our needs,3. Plan to cooperate and integrate for mutual benefit,4. Realize the Special Roles & Contributions,5. Continue a Broad Plan for the Future6. Establish the Caribbean as a Model for Regional

Development, especially small island nations 7. Exploit need and current emphasis on Vulnerability

Assessment, Risk Reduction, and Disaster Preparedness.

My Challenge to all of us:

Main Alliance Partners in the Caribbean USAID/GDA, OFDA, LAC USGS/EROS Data Center Caribbean Disaster Emergency

Response Agency (CDERA) & supporters

Organization of American States (OAS)

University of the West Indies (UWI), Center for Geospatial Studies

Caribbean Development Bank National Geospatial-Intelligence

Agency (NGA, formerly NIMA) ESRI (Ministries of environment ,

agriculture, coffee agencies and mapping agencies in the Caribbean)

NOAA – Geodetic Systems

U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), Pacific Disaster Center

UNEP-GRID Sioux Falls Pan American Health Organization

(PAHO) UNOOSA The Pan-American Institute for

Geography and History (PAIGH) C. A. Commission for Environment

and Development (CCAD) Permanent Committee for the

American Spatial Data Infrastructure (CP-IDEA)

Academy for Educational Development (AED)

Global Spatial Development Infrastructure (GSDI)

Food and Ag. Organization (FAO and LADA)

Capacity-building Workshops, Planning Meetings, and follow-on Projects

Two workshops on geospatial technologies: one for Mesoamerican (completed) and one for the Caribbean

30 participants from Mesoamerica and 30 from the Caribbean

Donation of GIS software to some participating agencies.

Provision of spatial data sets and information (e.g., Landsat data, SRTM data)

2 day seminars for senior management to plan MACGA activities: one for Mesoamerica and one for the Caribbean

Identify & initiate Projects

MACGA workshop participants in Panama

MACGA Planning Meeting Panama

The Next Steps: MACGA Caribbean Capacity Building Workshop

• Where:

• University of West Indies, Trinidad

• Jacob Opadeyi, facility coordinator (jopadeyi@hotmail.com)

• Dates:

• May 16-28, 2004

• Participants:

• 30 Trainees from CARICOM countries

• Technical requirements (defined by Opadeyi and others) • GIS capabilities

• National mapping/disaster planning/ or related agencies

• Selection & Invitation• MACGA Organizing Committee

• OAS, CDERA, National Ministers

• Support Provided to Invitees• Travel, per diem, and all associated facilities/workshop costs

The Next Steps: MACGA Caribbean Capacity Building Workshop

Agenda • Training

ArcGIS ArcIMS (& Public Domain Internet map servers)

ESRI cartographic tools and methodologies to develop Global Map products

Use of SRTM elevation data (30m and 90m resolution) New tools and methods for spatial data cataloguing and

Clearinghouse implementation Geodetic Controls in the Caribbean (Use of new sensor data (e.g., MODIS, ASTER)) Other related to vulnerability analysis, risk reduction, and

disaster management National and Facilitator Presentations each day

The Next Steps: MACGA Caribbean Capacity Building Workshop

Agenda (continued)• Software Distributed

ArcGIS, ArcIMS, SDE, and related ESRI products as required and as capacity allows to select agencies

Public Domain Internet map servers

Clearinghouse and Metadata software

Data Distributed “Earthsat Geocover” for each island

1975, 1990, 2000 TM georectified sets

GOFC CarLand TM+ data for Caribbean Land Cover 2002

SRTM 90m elevation data “Miscellaneous”

The Next Steps: MACGA Caribbean Capacity Building Workshop

Agenda (continued)• Implementations Initiated

National Integrated data sets for IMS presenting vulnerability and disaster planning data

IMS for Caribbean Land Cover and ancillary data products

Data Catalogues and Clearinghouses (IDSS systems)

LAC-SDI Newsletter

The Next Steps: MACGA Caribbean Planning Meeting

• Where:

• University of West Indies, Trinidad

• Jacob Opadeyi, facility coordinator (jopadeyi@hotmail.com)

• Dates:

• May 27-28, 2004 (Concurrent with end of Capacity Building)

• Participants (invitation to all with vested interests):

• Donors, Projects, Organizations, Regional and National Agencies, NGOs, and others

• Facilities are provided

• Each participant covers own travel and per diem

• Outcome

• Future cooperation,

• Plans for capacity building, national and regional

• Continued MACGA support and project development

Selected Activities already Initiated and to be Developed

1. SDI-LAC Newsletter

2. Earthsat Geocover

3. CarLand Caribbean Land Cover IMS

4. Clearninghouse & Metadata

5. Topographic Data/derived producgts

6. Vulnerability Mapping,

7. FEWS Products, Early Warning

8. Disaster Preparedness, IDSS

9. IMS ex: Specialty Coffee/bananas

Caribbean Data Holdings, Earthsat Geocover

1975

1990

2000

USGS/EDC will complete the accessions and provide at the Training Workshop

A Regional Project for Caribbean-Wide National and Regional Integrated Database Applications

-Conservation, Forestry, Ag-Environmental Protection-Land Use Planning-Disaster Mitigation-Climate Change and Mitigation-Parcel/Commodity Certification

Remote Sensing, Consistent Land Cover/Use, Integrated Core Databases, and Internet Map Servers

Land Cover & Sustainable Development

Imagery DEM Soil + Other

Other Climate

Soil + Soil + Other

Decision Tree Training of Complete Data Set

Field Refinement

GrassShrubSmallGrain Montane

ForestBarren

SedgeWetland

Indus-trial

Documented and Adaptable Land Classification

Internet Map Server Applications for Diverse Clients

Source Data and Rules for Specific Client Applications

Integrated Land Cover/Use System for the Caribbean Islands

DEM +

IMSImplementation

CarLand: Caribbean Land Cover and Data Integration in Internet Map Servers

2.1 Spatial Data Development, Access, and Distribution – Geospatial Data Clearinghouses Structured Metadata, Internet Based, Distributed Nodes Global or Specified Simultaneous Searches Systematic Data Retrieval and Organization

As of June 2001

Barbados: 2Colombia: 2Costa Rica: 3Dominica: 1Dom. Republic: 1El Salvador: 1Guatemala: 2Honduras: 2Jamaica: 1Mexico: 2Nicaragua: 1Trinidad&Tobago: 1Venezuela: 1Sum Caribbean = 21

United States: 149

Nodes in the “Caribbean” Major Projects:

-IGDN

-Mitch Reconstruction

Supported by: USAID, IDB, OAS-PAIGH, CIDA, (World Bank, CIAT)

file dateFEWS Flood Risk Monitoring System Flow Diagram

Preprocessing

MAP

MAE

Basin

Linkage

Routing Parameters

Soil Parameters

Flood Inundation Mapping

Landsat 7 SPOT

Output / Decision Support System

Data

RFE

PET

Soil

LU/LC

DEM

QPF

Stream Flow Model

Water Balance

Lumped Routing

Dist. Routing

Updating

When MACGA Objectives are Implemented......

• Spatial data is commonly used to assist decision-making.

• Easy data access is commonplace.

• Basic national and regional digital data sets are available for a nominal cost or free.

• A wide range of map services is available on the Web.

• Any user is able to view and analyze data without the use of specialized software.

• Duplication of effort in data creation is minimal.

• All new data are catalogued and incorporated into on-line catalogs.

• Data development follows common standards and guidelines.

• Governments encourage data production and use.

• MACGA has supported multi-sectoral needs: land use planning, conservation/biodiversity, disaster mitigation/planning, early warning, transportation, communications, and other infrastructure.

What can we do Today to Facilitate Common Objectives

1. Help identify your specific needs and requirements,

2. Assist in the identification of best participants,

3. Consider participation in the MACGA Planning Meeting,

4. Help define national regional needs for the national, project, and regional donors,

5. Identify other opportunities we can make,

6. Provide enthusiastic support for your national participants in the Training and Planning meetings.

Agencies/Trainees Receive Training in Developing Integrated Databases, Commercial

and Public Internet Map Servers

1. Data will be integrated and incorporated in operational servers

2. Software will be provided to each country.

3. Disaster related spatial data can be integrated by “teams” from each country.

4. Servers can be established for a wide variety of applications and with various levels of protection.

5. Provides powerful access to users who are not GIS specialists.

6. Requires data in useful and compatible format with appropriate standards, datums, projections, etc.

7. Integrates a broad array of projects in the Caribbean.

8. Following slides present a very, very simple example for Barbados.

Deliverables MACGA facilitates (1)

Integration of cadastral and municipal data setsSome data can be open to the public through GIS Web Services and multi-viewers

Biodiversity and Environmental Geographic Web Services.To be developed by the national environmental agencies, in support of initiatives such as SIAM and IABIN

Coffee IMS applications to support coffee marketing and certificationTo be developed by agricultural agencies in Central America and the Dominican Republic.

Evaluation and integration of existing data sets and applicationsUtilizing common standards and methodologies.

Implementation of Clearinghouse nodes and data cataloguingStrengthen existing nodes and help create new ones

OTHERS:Follow-up seminars, support to NSDI initiatives, establishment of standards, data dissemination, spatial data integration.

Deliverables MACGA Facilitates (2)

GIS and remote sensing network of peersThey implement permanent communication channels, circulate news, and provide technical assistance to members

The Mesoamerican and Caribbean Geospatial Alliance (MACGA)

U.S. Geological SurveyEROS Data Center

thanks youLarry L. Tieszen tieszen@usgs.gov

MACGA Caribbean Capacity Building Workshop

May 16-28, 2004

UWI, Trinidad

MACGA Caribbean Planning Meeting

May 27-28, 2004

UWI, Trinidad