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Introduction
Few nations have implemented specific marine or coastal SDI strategies within their national SDI programmes. The Digital Coast initiative currently being implemented in the USA [1] emerged from their Coastal SDI vision and strategy from 2000-2001. The Canadian Marine GDI (Geospatial Data Infrastructure) vision and strategy began in 1999 and is now being implemented as part of the Canadian national GDI - GeoConnections - the national partnership program, led by Natural Resources Canada. The United Kingdom has a fledgling marine SDI strategy, developed as a 'partnership' between UK government agencies that create of use marine and coastl data, embedded in the UK's Digital National Framework as the DNF-Offshore component. Australia has a strong focus on marine cadastre and is actively developing an eMarine Information Infrastructure (eMII) to support a national Integrated Marine Observing Sysem (IMOS). Few other nations have any published strategies relating specificly to marine or coastal SDI.
Marine and Coastal SDI in the USA
Marine and Coastal SDI in Canada
CGDI Intro
MGDI
COINAtlantic
COINPacific
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Marine and Coastal SDI in Australia
eMII as part of IMOS and role of the Ocean Portal
Standards development.
Marine and Coastal SDI in Other Nations
Very little else is going on specifically for marine data.
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Short title: National SDI Examples
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Expertise level: beginner
Author: Roger.Longhorn
Approval status: save as draft
Approved by: Murray.Brown
Last change: 2008-9-27
Subsection of: Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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