trends in the spatial information industry and an overview...

Trends in the Spatial Information Industry

and an Overview of Australian National

Spatial Data Infrastructure

International Symposium on NSDI (National Spatial Data

Infrastructure)

University of Tokyo, 8 June 2009

Graeme Kernich (Deputy CEO) Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information

Overview

• The Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information

• Information Trends

• Current Australian SDI

• New SDI Developments

• Australian Spatial Marketplace (ASM)

• National Precise Positioning Framework

• National Digital Elevation Model Framework (NEDF)

Overview








Top 6 trends in communications and media

technologies, applications and services

• Continued rapid (accelerating?) pace of changedriven by overlapping developments in technology, and connections between people, databases and objects

• Diversity in development of infrastructure (broadband, digital broadcasting, sensor/mesh networks, location sensing, context aware)

• Spread of distributed connectivity integration of information processing beyond desktop

• Enhanced content and network management capabilities

• The emerging Social Web

• Continuing scientific and technological innovation

Australian Communications and Media Authority 2008

Top 10 Technology Trends for Small Businesses - 2009

1. Netbook Adoption Accelerates

2. Built-in Wireless Broadband Usages Widens

3. Cell Phones Get more Software

4. Unified Communications Increase

5. Online Data Backups Proliferate

6. Social Media Becomes Strategic

7. Online Video gets Cheaper and More Widespread

8. Video Conference Solutions Expand

9. Hosted Software Applications Go on the Fast Track

10. Online Presence Gap Widens

http://smallbiztrends.com

Trends in the Spatial Information industry• More approachable applications of mapping - Google Maps, VE,

Yahoo!Maps and MapQuest

• More sophisticated applications that can INTERACT with the rest of the corporation and population - MapInfo, AWhere, FortiusOne

• Cloud Computing….

• Decision makers increasingly want information in real time, wherever they are and in the form that they need

• Enormous potential making government data holdings available to serve the national interest

Overview








Australian New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC)

Role = To facilitate the implementation of ASDI

Membership by the state agencies, Commonwealth Government & New

Zealand.

State Spatial Agencies• Lead agency for collection, management and distribution of key spatial data sets (base maps)• Imagery (aerial photography & satellite imagery)

• Geodetic positioning framework (eg. GPS)

• Road networks

• Addresses

• Cadastral or Property mapping

• Elevation (eg. DEMs)

• Administrative boundaries

• Hydrography

• Topographic mapping

Land Administration• Land titling

• Native title

• Land tax

• Valuations

• Land use

• Murray-Darling Basin Authority

• Geoscience Australia

• Bureau of Meteorology

• Tasmanian Spatial Data Directory

• CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Researchs

• Other Commonwealth Agencies (hosted by BRS)

• RAN Directorate of Oceanography and Meteorology

• Qld Spatial Data (QSIC)

• Victorian Spatial Data Directory

• South Australian Spatial Information Directory

• Australian Hydrographic Service

• PSMA Australia Limited

• NT Spatial Data Directory

• BRS and Australian Natural Resources Data Library

• Australian Hydrographic Service - Product Metadata

• Landgate

• Queensland Department of Natural Resources & Water

• ACT Geographic Data Directory

• DEWHA Discover Information Geographically

• IndexGeo Pty Ltd - Eco Companion catalogue

• NSW Natural Resources Data Directory

• Enables discovery of Australian spatial data.

• Launched in 1998 and contains over 30,000 entries held on 24 nodes around Australia.

• www.ga.gov.au/asdd/.

Australian Spatial Data Directory

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Use of government Information by others

• Only 8% of (2,600) data sets available to the public

• Further 2% of data sets available to industry

• 71% of data sets are confined to single government unit usage

2006/2007 - QGCIOCourtesy: QNRW

From ASDI to Australian Spatial Marketplace• Historically, ASDI comprises:

• policy

• data

• hardware

• software

• people

• SDI development increasingly complex - need for simplicity and clarity

• ASDI and ASDD can be characterised as technical solutions for technical people

• Strong supply side focus –technical people in public sector organisations

• missing capability for non-specialist public sector organisations, private sector and the general public

• How to better use LYNX 2 by PSMA, SLIP by WA, IQ by QLD, SIX by NSW?

Courtesy: ANZLIC

The ASM Vision

• exactly what do we want?

• not data, standards, software, hardware, people

• assertion: we want a [frictionless] spatial market place

• find and access spatial data, products, services and processes

• publish and market spatial data, products, services and processes

• gather intelligence from the spatial market place

• frictionless means fast and efficient processes, simple, easy to use

interfaces, and machine to machine connectivity

• assertion: we want the market place pitched to, available to, and used by

all:

• public

• private

• academia

• machines Courtesy: ANZLIC

Australian Spatial Marketplace

• A marketplace for all spatial resources in Australia and New

Zealand. It will:

• allow easy publishing and distribution

• allow easy discovery and access

• enable suppliers and users to transact with confidence

• provide the spatial resources to spatially enable any

information

• in practice:

• provide complete access, distribution and interoperation

services for all spatial information resources in Australia

and New Zealand

Courtesy: ANZLIC

“Think Amazon”• A market place

• Publishers

• Acquirers

ASM

infrastructure�

• Value adders

• Administrator/ regulator

• Clear commercial

imperative

Courtesy: ANZLIC

National Precise Positioning Framework

Objective =

2 cm

positioning

accuracy

in near

real-time

GPSNetworkPerth

SunPOZ

GPSnet Darwin(& Alice Springs)

CORS

SydNET

TasPOS

Australian Jurisdictional GNSS CORS Networks

(State and Private Sector networks (Tier 3)

National Elevation Data FrameworkPotential Inputs into a Nested DEM Framework

• 9 sec DEM

• Existing Regional DEMs

• Existing contours spot height hydro-network data

• SRTM (3 sec, 1 sec)

• ALOS, SPOT HRS and others

• TanDEM-X (2009)

• Airborne IFSAR

• Lidar

• Ground Survey

Rapidly improving

technologies and

maturing industry

National

Elevation

Data

Framework

Current

Elevation

Data

Courtesy: Geoscience Australia

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