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Science Geography

Geospatial Data Infrastructure

Concepts, Cases, and Good Practice

by (author) Richard Groot & John Douglas McLaughlin

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2000
Category
Geography
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780198233817
    Publish Date
    Aug 2000
    List Price
    $300.00

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, under development since the late 1960s, is being applied in a growing variety of public and private sector endeavours: real estate planning, land administration, resource management, environmental monitoring, etc. Each of these endeavours entails the creation and management of a variety of datasets. In addition to the cost of the technology, the most significant cost element in GIS exploitation is the establishment and maintenance of the relevant standardized databases, keeping these databases current and ensuring their inter-operability. Achieving cost-effective data sharing from different sources, however, requires policies and standards that provide a legislative, regulatory, financial operating environment of predictable integrity: a Geospatial Data Infrastructure (GDI). Its creation demands negotiating agreements defining the institutional environment and arrangements between database-producing and using organizations. This book aims to provide a clear conceptual framework, consistent terminology, reference cases, and recommended practices for design, implementation, and management of GDI. It is meant both for academics and for practitioners faced with the design, implementation, and maintenance of GDI at all levels of government and private sector enterprises, as well as in the international financial institutions involved with underwriting GDI projects.

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Contributor Notes

Richard Groot is a Professor of Geoinformatics Management and Infrastructure at the International Institute for Aerospace Surveys and Earth Sciences (ITC), Enschede, Netherlands.

John Douglas McLaughlin is a Professor in the Department of Land Studies at the Faculty of Geodesy and Geomatics and Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, Canada