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69 MarineCadastre.gov
is a joint BOEM and NOAA initiative providing au- thoritative data to meet the needs of the offshore energy and marine plan-
ning communities. Access to ocean use and planning areas can be found here.
10. Human Uses: recreational fishing, boating, diving, surfing, swimming,
nature viewing, ecotourism, aquaculture, etc. Could also contain subma- rine cables for telecommunications and energy, including modern fiber
optic.
NOAA’s National Marine Protected Areas MPA Center
has developed and applied a participatory
GIS process to gather ocean use data through
workshops that engage local and regional ocean experts. It is intended to be a flexible and mobile approach that can be refined and adapted for any
region or domain and to address multi-scaled management decisions.
6.2.8 Arctic Hub
The Arctic Hub
is a collaboration space for people interested in Arctic obser- vation. The
ArcticHub cyberinfrastructure provides an impressive Arctic and
related data management directories and initiatives overview.
6.2.9 Polar Community
A number of technological trends are providing a flood of new data concerning the polar regions. Of particular relevance are space-based technologies such
as earth observation, satellite telecommunications, global navigation satellite systems GNSS, and ship-borne automatic identification systems AIS, and
a wide variety of in-situ observational networks. Each has a role to play in monitoring the vast and harsh polar regions and each is undergoing significant
improvements in capabilities. However, ensuring the interoperability of these diverse data streams requires the development and implementation of appro-
priate data standards.
The International Arctic Science Committee IASC Sustaining Arctic Observ-
ing Networks SAON has already initiated efforts to provide a map’ that will
document the participants and their interactions. The roadmap for this project includes establishing a linked open data end-point that will allow people to
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70 query the database using GeoSPARQL. In concert with activities under the
EU-PolarNet project and other research initiatives e.g. the Polar Data Cata-
logue, NSF-funded BCube Informatics Project, these efforts are establishing a clear picture of the data and computing services available within the commu-
nity.
6.2.10 Natural Resources Canada, Public Safety Geoscience Pro-
gram
The Public Safety Geoscience Program develops a huge amount of geospatial data and place-based knowledge about the Arctic. This includes, but is not
limited to: seismic hazard model, space weather forecasts, research into historic tsunamis and floods, marine sample data, videos of submarine features taken
by remotely operated vehicles, photos taken by UAVs, marine seismic data, journal articles about regional and local geohazards, slope stability research on
the offshore continental slope, marine research station data in the EDS, and maps documenting the location and extent of geohazards and other geological
features. Much of this is not included in the CGDI and could be included in both the CGDI and the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure.
6.2.11 University Carleton, Geomatics and Cartographic Research
