| 9:00 |
Conference Welcome and Overview, Douglas Nebert, USGS |
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Session: Data Access and Sharing (Moderator: Mark Parsons) |
| 9:10 |
Keynote Presentation: Introduction and a Polar Year perspective on data sharing, Mark Parsons, NSIDC |
| 9:30 |
The Information Commons and new Norms for Science, John Wilbanks, Creative Commons |
| 10:05 |
Polar Information Commons, Bob Chen, CIESIN |
| 10:20 |
Open discussion moderated by Parsons |
| 10:40 |
Morning Break |
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Session: Capturing Local and Traditional Knowledge (Moderator:
Jeannine Parent) |
| 11:00 |
Documenting Inuit Knowledge using Distributed Information and Multimedia Interfaces: Knowledge Preservation and Sharing through Partnership, Peter Pulsifer, Carleton University |
| 11:20 |
Spatial Dimensions of Caribou Hunting in Three North Slope Communities within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, Sverre Pedersen |
| 11:40 |
Integration of Inuit Traditional Knowledge and Remote Sensing for monitoring of Char Resources: Four Years of the Nunavik Lake Ice Service, Valter Blazevic, Strata360 |
| 12:00 |
Lunch Break - Lunch buffet provided |
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Session: Imagery, remote sensing, and sensor networks for the arctic landscape (Moderator: Ellsworth LaDrew) |
| 13:00 |
Investigating Headwater Drainage basis using Polarimetric SAR in the Foothills of the Alaskan Arctic, Erin Trochim, UAF |
| 13:20 |
Multi-temporal Lake Mapping in the Arctic Coastal Plain using Landsat, Evan Lyons, UCLA |
| 13:40 |
A Pan-Arctic Scale Assessment of High-Latitude Lake Distribution and Dynamics, Chintan Shah |
| 14:20 |
Afternoon Break |
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Session: Arctic Mapping and Data Access (Moderator: Bob Chen) |
| 14:40 |
Progress and Challenges with Spatial Data Sharing for Arctic Research, William Manley, University of Colorado INSTAAR |
| 15:00 |
Preserving History: Data Management for the International Polar Year, Ellsworth LeDrew, University of Waterloo |
| 15:20 |
Interoperable Challenges in Web Based GIS Applications: Solutions during the development of the Arctic Research Mapping Application (ARMAP), George Johnson, University of Texas at El Paso |
| 15:40 |
Database Design for Points, Grids, and the Pole: the Searchlight Project Case Study, Julia Collins, NSIDC |
| 16:00 |
Barrow Area Information Database, Allison Gaylord, Nuna Technologies |
| 16:20 |
International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere, Lisa Darby and Taneil Uttal, NOAA/ESRL |
| 16:40 |
Adjourn |
| 17:30 |
Reception - Light food and drinks provided |
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Exhibits/Demos: |
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The Terrestrial Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network Near Real-Time Data Mapping Application, George Johnson, UTEP |
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Preliminary catalog and viewer for Arctic Web Map Services, Wenwen Li, GMU |
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GEOSS Web Portal Demonstration, Robert Thomas, Compusult Ltd. |
| 19:00 |
Adjourn |
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Session: Moving Towards an Arctic SDI (Moderator: Allison Gaylord) |
| 9:00 |
Concepts for an Arctic SDI for Arctic Council Interests, Martin Skedsmo, Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority Tromsø |
| 9:30 |
Towards Building a Virtual Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure: Discovery, Sharing, Evaluation, and Visualization, Wenwen Li, GMU, Doug Nebert, USGS |
| 10:00 |
Morning Break |
| 10:20 |
Arctic SDI: A Joint Nordic Presentation, Jarmo Ratia, Finland NLS, Owe Palmer, Swedish Mapping, Martin Skedsmo, Norwegian Mapping, Eskild Lund Sorensen, Denmark, Magnus Gudmundsson, Iceland |
| 10:40 |
The Swedish Geodata Portal - Geodata.se, Kjell Hjorth, Lantmäteriet |
| 11:00 |
Topographic Mapping in the Canadian Arctic: Update on Production and Recent Developments, Daniel Clavet, Natural Resources Canada |
| 11:20 |
NunaGIS - Greenland Maps on the Internet, Klaus Georg Hansen, Greenland |
| 11:40 |
Lunch Break - Lunch buffet provided |
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Session: National Activities in support of Arctic SDI (Moderator: Doug
Nebert) |
| 12:45 |
Overview of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure and a case study on Arctic Seabirds, Jeannine Parent, GeoConnections Canada |
| 13:05 |
GIT-Barents Project and Russia, Owe Palmer, Swedish Mapping |
| 13:30 |
An overview of The National Map, NSDI and data challenges in Alaska, Craig Seaver, USGS |
| 14:00 |
Territorial and Indigenous Mapping, Chris Arko, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc (To Be Confirmed) |
| 14:20 |
Afternoon Break |
| 14:50 |
Panel Discussion: Best Practices for Interoperability in the Arctic Region: service metadata, caching/tiling, projections, registries/ catalogs, Allison Gaylord, Nuna Technologies, Falk Huettman, UAF |
| 16:30 |
Adjourn |
| 18:30 |
Departure time from Westmark Hotel to Pioneer Park Salmon Bake (included in registration fee) |
| 21:00 |
Bus returns to hotel |
| 9:00 |
Keynote Presentation: Viewing the World through Googley Eyes, John Bailey, UAF |
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Session: Virtual globes and geobrowsers (Moderator: Robert Thomas) |
| 9:50 |
Experiences with a web based virtual globe presentation of CADIS metadata and data, Michael Burek, NCAR |
| 10:10 |
The SEAMONSTER Geowiki: Embedding a Sensor Web in Virtual Globes, Matt Heavner, University of Alaska Southeast |
| 10:30 |
Morning Break |
| 10:50 |
Session: Policy Baseline for Arctic SDI (Moderator: Jarmo Ratia)
- What are the objectives of an Arctic SDI?
- Who are the users/stakeholders of an Arctic SDI?
- Is there a focal project or topic to engage support?
- Data access policies, data provision policies
- Alignment with international initiatives
- Funding, operations, maintenance
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| 12:30 |
Lunch Break - Lunch buffet provided |
| 13:30 |
Session: Technical Baseline for Arctic SDI (Moderator: William Manley)
- What data are required for an Arctic SDI?
- What Web Services are required for an Arctic SDI?
- What portals, catalogues, interfaces, and applications are required?
- What are the standard protocols, projections, data formats required?
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| 14:45 |
Afternoon Break |
| 15:00 |
Session: Arctic SDI Initiative Development (Moderator: Martin Skedsmo)
- Initiative development, workplan, milestones
- Agreed objectives and requirements
- Participant identification and commitment
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| 16:30 |
Wrap up, Douglas Nebert, USGS |
| 17:00 |
Adjourn: Close of the Conference |
