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Everybody loves a winner and here you can discover how partners are using the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) to protect the environment, make Canada safer, manage public health, and deal with issues of importance to Aboriginal people.
Building the Business Case for Investments in Geospatial Information Technology
Keeping Canada’s infrastructure in good repair requires millions of dollars of investment in people, processes, and technology. Because this infrastructure typically involves roads, utility lines, rights of way, service areas, etc., geospatial information technology (GIT) can play a big part in maximizing the value of these investments. Specifically, GIT can help organizations track and manage their assets, operate more efficiently and effectively, and choose from among competing projects.
Resource-Management Tool Fires Up BC Forest Service
Each year, British Columbia sees 3,500 wildfires on average. When these fires threaten communities, endangered species habitats, or valuable timberlands, halting their spread becomes vital. This dangerous task falls to the Protection Branch of the BC Forest Service, an organization that now has the ability to use the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) to help battle 'and conquer' the province's wildfires.
New Environmental Management System Helps Responders Clean Up Spills
The Environmental Emergencies Branch has created a system'the Environmental Emergency Management System or "E2MS"'that capitalizes on the CGDI's vast reservoir of interoperable geographic data layers. By combining spatial-information management tools and technologies with spatial data and information, E2MS uses the CGDI to enable emergency organizations, federal government departments, and provincial emergency-measures agencies to respond more effectively to oil and chemical spills.
GeoConnections and U.S. FGDC streamline cross-border geospatial data sharing
GeoConnections and the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) have been working together since 1999 to adopt common geospatial data standards for both Canada and the USA.
Blood Tribe
The Blood Tribe considers land as an extension of their cultural and traditional connection to nature.
Geodata conferencing to aid emergency response efforts
In emergencies, no one can afford miscommunication. In our earthquake example,
seismologists could use the conferencing system to produce a map based on sensor
readings that model the earth's movement.
Land Information Ontario adds value with geospatial web services
"GeoConnections has endorsed a web-based vision for the Canadian Geospatial
Data Infrastructure for some time," says Mr. Maloney.
Bay of Fundy Marine Resource Centre plots success with GIS
Each year, dozens of oil tankers move through the Bay of Fundy off the Nova Scotia coast to and from oil refineries in St. John, New Brunswick. What would happen should a tanker spill its cargo?
Vantage Point International Overflowing with Enthusiasm for New Online Flood Mapping Service
Triggered by heavy rain the preceding fall, an uncommonly high winter snowfall, and 90mm of snow in April, the Red River flooded with a vengeance in 1997. The flood, the largest in 171 years to strike the Red River Drainage Basin, forced 28,000 people from their homes in Manitoba and several northern U.S. states and caused millions of dollars...
Grande Prairie Region Improves Emergency Response Tools
Paramedics in Alberta's Grande Prairie region can now reach accident victims more easily... thanks to a Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) project involving the Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Medical Service (EMS), the City of Grande Prairie geographic information system (GIS) department and TELUS Geomatics.
EMS Provides Health-care Sector with Missing Link
Understanding why diseases occur is the most important step in combating them. Thanks to some pioneering software from EMS Technologies, Canadian health practitioners now have a powerful new web mapping tool to track diseases and help keep them in check.