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IRCC6 Paris May 2014
Agenda item 10C
“Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure”
Report from MDSIWG5
Edward Hosken
MSDIWG member
Context
MSDIWG is a working group of HSSC
MSDIWG5 met in USA in February 2014
IRCC4/22 - request MSDIWG to develop training
Task IRCC5/11 - development of MSDI (?)
RHC standing agenda item (?)
IHO vision to promote wider use of hydrography
‘Hydrography – much more than just
nautical charts’
Why MSDI?
Wider use of valuable data assets
Blue Economy; Environmental management;
Disaster planning and Emergency response.
E-Navigation – more than just navigation
What is MSDI?
Policy &
Governance
(People)
Technical
Standards
(Standards)
Information
Systems
(ICT)
Geographic
Content
(Data)
What is MSDI?
Stakeholders
Benefits
Funding
GIS
Internet
Policy &
Governance
(People)
Technical
Standards
(Standards)
Information
Systems
(ICT)
Geographic
Content
(Data)
?
✔
✔
?
S-100
OGC
Data, not
products
Consequences
Organisational change
Data centric
Enhanced skill sets
Commit funding
Raised profile
Wider regional role
Improved decision making
Financial benefit
MSDIWG Work Plan
Promote best practice
Review standards
Develop training syllabus
Maintain reference documents on IHO website
Recommendations
Participate in active debate on MSDI policy
Engage with government, industry, academia
Determine requirements based on explicit benefits
Invest for future benefit
Share examples of best practice
Build capacity
Proposals
Decide how to contribute to the
development of MSDI
Decide how to contribute to work of
MSDIWG