Cloud-Enabling GIS for Conservation
This presentation was given at Association for Geographic Information (AGI) 'GeoCommunity '11' Conference on 22-Sep-2011. The AGI is the UK Geospatial Membership Body. "Cloud-Enabling GIS for Conservational Collaboration" Abstract As higher-level GIS capabilities rapidly move to the Web, or ‘the Cloud’ as it is increasingly being called the possibilities for a seamless, integrated GIS collaboration environment become a reality for all. One group that can especially benefit from ever-decreasing set-up, infrastructure and maintenance costs are Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). One such NGO with a GIS strategy to become fully ‘Cloud-Enabled’ is Amigos de Iracambi - a Brazilian non-profit organisation whose mission is to work with the community to make the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in the Atlantic Rainforest more attractive than its destruction.
Cloud-Enabling GIS for Conservation
- 1. Cloud GIS for Conservation A Case Study: Amigos De Iracambi Minas Gerais Brazil
- 2. My Background Amigos de Iracambi Current GIS use at Iracambi My experiences working at Iracambi Future of GIS at Iracambi
- 3. Charlie Poate Carlisle City Council – refuse and recycling Amigos de Iracambi - conservation Ribble Trust - river catchment land management Cranfield University - MSc
- 5. Mission Atlantic Rainforest Conservation Research sustainable forest management to; Generate income to raise local living standards Encourage landowners to conserve their land Monitor and promote the conservation of endangered species
- 6. Role of GIS at Iracambi Land cover mapping Community land use/infrastructure Demographics Environmental Protection Areas Payment for environmental services – Springs, streams, forest Forest futures Mining
- 7. Constraints High turnover of volunteers Volunteer GIS Experience Data Management Hardware & Software Electricity Internet GPS
- 8. My Experiences Land use and community mapping GPS Garmin etrex H community infrastructure and land use on the ground and using Ikonos imagery and Google Earth Trail Mapping Permanent sample plot locating Habitat mapping Demographics Lightning
- 11. Iracambi Web Mapping v1.0 & v1.1 Built on bespoke code on Google Maps (v1.0) Built on bespoke code on Google Maps with Google Earth plug-in (v1.1) Free, but.. time-consuming, technical and not agile http://www.iracambi.com/earth
- 13. Future Use of GIS at Iracambi Master data to be stored online at ArcGIS.com Provides a platform to; Store Manage Edit data Easy access for volunteers in USA, UK and Brazil Web Services –WFS and WMS
- 14. Benefits of Cloud GIS for Iracambi Stability Collaboration Agility Accessibility Visibility Data Sharing
- 15. TODAY – we move to the cloud: Iracambi Web Mapping + GIS = Iracambi GIS v2.0 Leveraging Esri’s non-profit Programme ArcGIS desktop & ‘The Cloud’ (ArcGIS Online) Current site - http://www.GeoEnabling.com
- 17. Thank you for your attention. We always need GIS Volunteers, to help in Brazil or now remotely. For more information please visit: UK - http://www.iracambi.org.uk Brazil - http://www.iracambi.com
Editor's Notes
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