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OGC GISD Pilot

 

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In 2002 the Center participated in the Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development Initial Capability Pilot (GISD-ICP).

 As described in the OGC document on the project:

"In collaboration with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), OGC is ...[supporting the] first of a series of projects to help make geographic information more accessible and useful to decision makers working on sustainable development problems. ... Sustainable development, like many other activities that require sharing of geographic information, is hampered by the lack of interoperability between types of geoprocessing systems, vendor brands, data sources, and computing platforms. Diverse collections of data relevant to sustainable development in Africa are stored at the local, national and international levels in different vendor formats, and are available via multiple web sites and portals. But it is difficult for a researcher or practitioner to efficiently discover, access, retrieve and apply data of interest without considerable effort to visit multiple web sites, conduct many different queries, download files, reconcile different vendor formats and bring all the data into the same Spatial Reference System so that the information can be used. This project will result in a limited but operational framework of interoperable clients and servers operating as a single network and enabling data sharing by transparent communication among Standardized Commercial Off the Shelf (SCOTS) software products with interoperability interfaces based on OpenGIS® Specifications from OGC."

More information on the project can be found here.