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Arctic Regional Hydrographic Commission and Arctic SDI – Joint Statement of Intent

Several years of cooperation between the Arctic Regional Hydrographic Commission and the Arctic SDI is now formalized through a Joint Statement of Intent. The purpose of the collaboration is to “facilitate bringing land and marine data together in an infrastructure that connects users across domains to the spatial data valued to support research, planning, and […]

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Alignment of Polar Data Policies

Together with colleagues from Arctic Data Committee, Southern Ocean Observing System and Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management representatives from the Arctic SDI has participated in the development of the the document “Alignment of Polar Data Policies“. The document examines the state and recent developments of global and important regional data policies, as well as […]

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Arctic SDI Biennial Report 2019 2021

Arctic SDI Biennial Report 2019 2021 – developing the Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Arctic – report by the outgoing Icelandic Chairship on achievements during the 2 year chairship period. The report also gives insight in the status of Arctic SDI Services, cooperation with key stakeholders and partners as well as status on major projects […]

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Arctic SDI presentation for the IHO Marine SDI Working Group 17. March 2021

See the slides prepared for the presentation which includes a general introduction to Arctic SDI, the collaboration and outreach activities and a special focus on metadata harvesting tools. Arctic SDI presentation at the IHO MSDIWG Meeting – March 2021    

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Video presentation at the Arctic Council SAO plenary meeting November 2020

Eydís Líndal Finnbogadóttir, chair of Arctic SDI participated in the Arctic Council SAO plenary meeting 17. – 19. November 2020. The main focus of her talk and video presentation was the importance of making Arctic Council Working Groups data available online in a standardized manner. That would increase the visibility of the Arctic Council work, […]

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Catalogue on Data and Services Presentation at the Polar Data Forum III – Helsinki, Finland 21 November 2019

See Presentation: A method for producing a catalogue for Arctic SDI Aggregating information about services and data is essential: • Reduce duplicated effort, in both data collection and distribution • Understand what information is available and what needs further collecting / research – “a map of data” • Discovery of relevant data provided outside of […]

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Polar Data Forum III – Arctic Data Interoperability Workshop Helsinki Finland 21 November 2019

Presentation – Arctic Data Interoperability Workshop A key output will be a common architecture between Polar Data System diverse data pools and Arctic SDI standards and policy best practices.

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Presentation by Arctic SDI at Polar Data Forum III – 21 November 2019 Helsinki, Finland

See the Arctic SDI Presentation slides by the National Land Survey of Finland, the Swedish Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registration Authority and Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada at the Third Polar Data Forum, Helsinki, Finland 21 November 2019

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Access to Land and Marine Data to Face Challenges in the Arctic – a presentation at UN-GGIM 9th Session, 5 August 2019

See the ARMSDIWG and Arctic SDI joint presentation “Access to Land and Marine Data to Face Challenges in the Arctic” at the UN-GGIM 9th Session Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information Side Event, 5 August 2019. ARMSDIWG is the Arctic Regional Marine Spatial Data Working Group – established by the Arctic Regional Hydrographic Commission. The […]

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2017-2019 Biennial Report: Highlights from the Finnish Arctic SDI Chairmanship

In May 2019 Finland handed over the Chairmanship of the Arctic SDI cooperation to Iceland. In the Arctic SDI Biennial report 2017 – 2019 you can read about Arctic SDI achiements during the Finnish Chairmanship.

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Arctic SDI participating National Mapping Agencies

  • Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada
  • Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency, Denmark
  • National Land Survey of Finland
  • National Land Survey of Iceland
  • Norwegian Mapping Authority
  • Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Mapping of the Russian Federation
  • Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
  • United States Geological Survey

Arctic SDI partners and affiliates

  • Norwegian Polar Institute
  • Arctic Regional Hydrographic Commission – Marine SDI Working Group
  • Arctic Council
  • Arctic Data Committee (SAON/IASC)
Contact Arctic SDI: info@arctic-sdi.org