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Introducing the International Coastal Atlas Network

Introducing the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN), a global network of experts in marine and coastal mapping, promoting the development of coastal web atlases. This article explores the background, strategic aims, membership, and products of ICAN, highlighting the emergence of coastal web atlases and the need for widespread solutions in coastal management. It also discusses the intellectual merit of ICAN and the significant impact it has on decision support for coastal management.

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Introducing the International Coastal Atlas Network

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  1. Introducing the International Coastal Atlas Network Dawn Wright Oregon State University Ned Dwyer Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, Ireland Tanya Haddad Oregon Coastal Management Program Liz O’Dea Washington Dept. of Ecology David Hart University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Tony Lavoi NOAA Coastal Services Center Tim Nyerges University of Washington Marcia Berman Virginia Institute of Marine Science John Helly Scripps and San Diego Supercomputing Ctr. ICAN Great Lakes Workshop, Madison, WI USA, September 2010

  2. Outline • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • Background • Strategic Aims • Current Membership • ICAN Outcomes/Products • Strategic Directions • Conclusion ICAN Great Lakes

  3. Emergence of “Coastal Web Atlases” • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion “A collection of digital maps and datasets with supplementary tables, illustrations, and information that systematically illustrate the coast, oftentimes with cartographic and decision support tools, all of which are accessible via the Internet.” (O’Dea et al., 2007) Coastal Zone Management, Governance Governments, NGOs, Citizen Groups ICAN Great Lakes

  4. Emergence of “Coastal Web Atlases” • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion Marine Irish Digital Atlas, mida.ucc.ie Oregon Coastal Atlas, www.coastalatlas.net ICAN Great Lakes

  5. Washington Coastal Atlas, USA MarineMap, USA De Kustatlas, Belgium Atlas of the Lagoon, Venice, Italy And many MORE … NOAA Digital Coast, USA

  6. Enter ICAN ….Intellectual Merit • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • Significant capacity, varying approaches • Regional governance, coordination • Best practices? • Widespread solutions needed • Access to and documentation of data • Integration of tools • Decision support for coastal mgmt via atlases • “Semantic interoperability” ICAN Great Lakes

  7. Workshop 1, 2006Cork, Ireland • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • To create & strengthen relationships between experts in marine & coastal mapping in North America and Europe • To identify state of the art approaches to coastal mapping and informatics ICAN Great Lakes

  8. DISSEMINATION PROMOTION ONTOLOGIES Key Workshop 1 Recommendations • Consult with the user community • Support dissemination of knowledge and experience • Provide input to policy development • Devote resources to proper cataloguing – use data standards and specifications • Seek to maintain & update systems • Employ efficient, flexible and easy to use data management systems • Evaluate atlas impact • Offer analysis tools • Acknowledge the importance of ongoing promotion • Build on lessons learned and use existing knowledge • Implement ontologies to improve data discovery, sharing & integration

  9. Workshop 2, 2007Corvallis, USA • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • Improve searches between atlases • metadata to ontologies • Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) • Semantic interoperability • Linkages to use cases, communities • Proof-of-concept ontologies & interoperability prototype • Large, collaborative funding proposals ICAN Great Lakes

  10. Workshop 3, 2008Copenhagen, Denmark • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • European Environment Agency sponsorship • Advance actions in: • Technical developments • Review of interoperability prototype • Strategic directions • Governance structure • Link to relevant initiatives in Europe ICAN Great Lakes

  11. ICAN Strategic Aims • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • Share experiences and find common solutions to coastal web atlas development • Knowledge portal:Guides, cookbooks, “engines”, discussion boards, code, use cases… • Globally integrate and interoperate among locally-maintained atlases • Inform regional decision- and policy-making across several themes: • Climate change - coastal vulnerability • Coastal governance (boundaries, protected areas, etc.) • Coastal hazards • Population pressures • Marine spatial planning • Resource availability and exploitation ICAN Great Lakes

  12. www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast

  13. westcoastoceans.gov

  14. ICAN Strategic Aims ICAN Great Lakes

  15. Current Membership: 30+ organizations from 14 nations and growing… • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Tools • ICAN Future • Conclusion http://icoastalatlas.net/ican_members Coastal GeoTools

  16. ICAN ProductsVarious Action Themes • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • Awareness Raising • Outreach and Training • Documentation • Funding • Technical • Governance • Assessment ICAN Great Lakes

  17. icoastalatlas.net Coastal GeoTools

  18. Awareness Raising • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • Poster • Brochure ICAN Great Lakes

  19. Awareness Raising • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • GIScience 2008 Park City, UT, USA, • JIGOT 2008, Marseilles, France • Coastal geoTools ’09, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA • EU Maritime Days, Rome, Italy • 3rd INSPIRE Conf. /GSDI 11, Rotterdam, Netherlands • CoastalZone’09, Boston, USA • CoastGIS’09, Itajai, Brazil • Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), Australia ICAN Great Lakes

  20. Atlas Assessment • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion Reach survey from icoastalatlas.net ICAN Great Lakes

  21. Outreach and Training • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • EUCC - The Coastal Union Meeting • OGC Geosemantics Working Group • GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA • FGDC Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee Meeting • Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) Workshop, McLean, VA • Littoral 2008, Venice, Italy • USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program teleconference series ICAN Great Lakes

  22. West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop: a model for other regions West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop April 23-24, 2009 Seattle, WA USA

  23. Outreach and Training • CoastGIS 09, Brazil • GeoNetwork and Mapserver • ODINAFRICA African Marine Atlas Task Team Meeting , Belgium • MIDA, ICAN, Atlas Technologies (visualisation, metadata) • INSPIRE/GSDI Conferences, Netherlands • ICAN workshop • ODINCARSA, Caribbean Marine Atlas Workshop, St. Lucia

  24. Interoperability Prototype • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion We focus on metadata interoperability “Mapping” of Terms: MIDA: “Coastline” is similar to OCA: “Shoreline” “Coastline” “Shoreline” Atlas X ISO Metadata & MIDA terminology FGDC Metadata & OCA terminology X Standard & X terminology … ICAN Great Lakes

  25. Technical Developments • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Workshop 3 • Prototype • ICAN Future • Conclusion ICAN Great Lakes

  26. New Handbook, published 2010 • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion icoastalatlas.net/handbook ICAN Great Lakes

  27. Funding • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • NSF Intl. Workshop Travel Grants for ICAN 4 and ICAN 5 • EU Framework 7 • ICAN case study for Open Service Network for Marine Env Data (NETMAR) ICAN Great Lakes

  28. ICAN 4: Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean Trieste, Italy November 2009

  29. Coastal GeoTools

  30. ICAN 4: Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean Continue interoperability prototype work ICAN Mediterranean region • Atlas of the Lagoon, Venice • Bulgaria • Spain • Tunisia • EMODNET in Italy • NETMAR • Brazil, as well User perspective on coastal web atlases Idea hatched for THIS meeting ICAN Great Lakes

  31. ICAN Workshop 5 • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion UNESCO IOC IODE Headquarters Oostende, Belgium 31 Aug – 2 Sept 2011 in advance of CoastGIS 2011 ICAN Great Lakes

  32. Strategic Directions • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion • Governance activities • Committee structures • Pathways towards sustainable funding model • Technical project development • Awareness raising and publicity • Outreach and training activities • Documentation of resources, tools, expertise • Further development of ICAN portal ICAN Great Lakes

  33. Acknowledgments U.S. National Science Foundation Irish National Development Plan Marine Institute (Ireland), Marine RTDI Networking & Technology Transfer Initiative European Environment Agency Oregon Coastal Mgmt Program NSF OCE-0607372 (MMI) ICAN Great Lakes

  34. For More Information… • Outline • Background • Strategic Aims • Membership • Products • ICAN Future • Conclusion icoastalatlas.net or ican.science.oregonstate.edu ICAN Interoperability Prototype • ican.ucc.ie ICAN Great Lakes

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