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Preferred term
POLAR ATLAS
Definition
- Short Title: Polar Atlas Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=176 The Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC) at Carleton University in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Polar Commission, and the International polar science community proposes the development of an on-line Polar Atlas (henceforth The Atlas) for the purpose of IPY Education and Outreach. The Atlas is envisioned as significantly contributing to making IPY activities and results accessible to students, teachers, the media, policy makers, scientists, and the general public. The Atlas will enable users to interact with information on a wide range of topics identified as IPY themes including environmental change and human activity in the polar regions. One of the technological contributions of the proposed activity will be an Atlas that enables users to contribute content, thus involving polar community residents in meaningful ways. Beyond the project focus on Education and Outreach, the project will generate Canadian contributions to an infrastructure that will enable the open, free, and unrestricted access to data and information generated through the IPY programme. The Atlas will be developed on a Spatial Data Infrastructure model and the data management structures being developed by the International community (EoI 409/ proposal 49). A key national element of the SDI development strategy is partnership with Natural Resources Canada, specifically the activities related to EoI 993. The members of The Atlas proposal will take a lead role in the research aspects of the project while members of the EoI 993 proposal will lead with respect to community liaison in the Arctic and infrastructure development. The primary project activity is to promote education and outreach by making the findings from IPY accessible to a wide range of participants. An on-line atlas developed on a SDI can provide a valuable mechanism that allows experts and non-experts alike to access information. We are currently developing such an atlas for the Antarctic region through a major collaborative research grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. This atlas is being developed through international partnerships and is entitled the SCAR Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica (CAA) (http://www.carleton.ca/gcrc/caap). We have significant expertise and existing infrastructure that will facilitate extending the current Atlas framework to include both polar regions. We have partnered with several Arctic-related projects: 1) Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (EoI 358 to be submitted as a full proposal for September 30) and 2) Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project (EoI 715, situated within a cluster initiative entitled SIKU (Sea Ice Knowledge and Use in the Arctic) to be submitted as a full proposal for September 30). To ensure that our efforts are integrated with other international efforts, we are collaborating with the Polar Post Project (EoI 469) led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in the United States that shares many similar objectives to the proposed Atlas. We have initiated discussions with other Canadian education-related projects such as Mission Antarctique (EoI 465) and will continue to pursue collaborative activities to enrich the proposed Atlas. The Atlas development as proposed will require an available network of data such as a SDI or an observatory network as proposed by the eGy (Electronic Geophysical Year). We are actively involved in SDI development for the Antarctic (see section 3.6). The development of the Arctic component of the SDI will be carried out through national (EoI 993) and international partnerships. To ensure that the SDI components for the two Polar Regions are compatible, we will collaborate and coordinate efforts with other geoscientific information management initiatives, including the IPY DIS (Proposal 49) and the related Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network/ARCUS (Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, EoI 265), the Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management and the SCAR Experts Group on Geospatial Information. Our project will span the two-year observation period of IPY (1 March 2007-1 March 2009) and beyond. (en)
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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/6f2b998b-15c2-4b53-8098-63d9a7753b7f
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