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6.2.4 Geographical Names
The Geographical Names Board of Canada GNBC is Canadas national coor- dinating body responsible for standards and policies on place names. Natural
Resources Canada NRCan provides infrastructure and support for the Cana- dian Geographical Names Data Base CGNDB as the authoritative national
database of place names, and a key component of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure CGDI as a fundamental API requirement. NRCan con-
solidates geographical names data, spatial delineations of features, and new naming decisions provided by the naming authorities of the GNBC in the na-
tional database. The geographical names product files covering all Canadian provinces and territories may be downloaded in Shapefile, KML, GML, and
CSV format from NRCans
GeoGratis portal as well as from the Government of
Canadas Open Data Portal
. In addition, NRCan offers an Application Program- ming Interface API as a means for direct access to the CGNDB for
customized searches
. On the US side, the
US Board on Geographic Names provides Web service ac-
cess to geographical names via the GNIS system
. The Geographic Names Infor- mation System GNIS is the US federal and national standard for geographic
nomenclature. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the GNIS in support of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names as the official repository of domestic ge-
ographic names data, the official vehicle for geographic names use by all de- partments of the Federal Government, and the source for applying geographic
names to Federal electronic and printed products.
6.2.5 Harris Corporation
Data types available through Harris which should be considered for integration include access to Japan Meteorological Agency JMA Himawari-8 and NOAA
GOES-R sensor data through Harris WxConnect ground stations
, access to real-time satellite
AIS data steam , and access to current commercial or govern-
ment imagery data through an OGC service interface. In addition, it is possible to provide data analytics based on the real time data described above. There are
prototype analytics to process the real time data to provide derived informa- tion. These currently include COTS imagery analytics and test cases for vessel
track intersection, vessel deviation from reported course and speed.
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6.2.6 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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