Transcript SCAR / SC-AGI Standing Committee On Antarctic Geographic

HCA7-7.6.5A
SCAR / SC-AGI
Standing Committee On Antarctic Geographic
Information
 First formed 1958 –
WG on Cartography
 Various names since then –
WG-GGI
WG on Geodesy and Geographic Information
 EGGI - 2000
Expert Group on Geographic Information
 SC-AGI - 2006
Standing Committee / Antarctic Geographic
Information
SCAR / SC-AGI
Infrastructure Projects
 SCAR ADD - Antarctic Digital Database
 SCAR CGA - Composite Gazetteer Antarctica
 SCAR FC - Feature Catalogue
 SCAR - Map Catalogue
 SCAR Symbology – SEAL
Symbol Editor and Library
SCAR / SC-AGI
Projects
 LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
 King George Island GIS / Web Map service (WMS)
 Antarctic Coastal Change Project
 Names projects –
Larsemann Hills /
TransAntarctic Mountains – (Ross Sea region)
 Cybercartographic Atlas - Antarctica
 Grove Mountains GIS Portal
SCAR / SC-AGI
Issues
 SCAR – ADD
Re-structure and attributing data
 SCAR CGA - Composite Gazetteer Antarctica
35,921 names for 18,105 features
 Multiple names per feature
 Feature types – Feature Catalogue
 Coordinates
Accuracy / Inaccuracy
 SCAR - Map Catalogue
Maintaining
 SCAR Symbology – SEAL
Developing symbology digital format
SCAR / SC-AGI
IHO / HCA & SC-AGI
 IHO / GEBCO gazetteer
Model for SCAR CGA
 IHO / GIS Antarctica
Relate SC-AGI Geographic Information to IHO?
Data structure
Feature types
 Regional Grouping / Areas of Interest
Ross Sea area
Antarctic Peninsula
King George Island
East Antarctica
 Overlap with IHO on meetings?
SC-AGI - Tide Gauges
TIDE
GAUGES
GIANT Meeting, AWI
24th July 2004
SCAR / SC-AGI
IHO / HCA & SC-AGI
 Tide gauges
IHO/HCA and SC-AGI compile data
 Is it the same information?
 Duplication – avoid
Tide Gauges
Mooring
Tide Gauges
Download
Tide Gauges
Insitu
Tide Gauges
Download from ice
Tide Gauges
GPS Float
Tide Gauges
GPS Float
Tide Gauges
Mawson - 2004 Tsunami
Tide Gauges
Mawson - 2004 Tsunami
Tide Gauges
Data Holdings