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Geospatial Web Applications for
Environmental Assessment & Oilspill Preparedness in the Arctic
Jason Duffe
Environment Canada
Geospatial Web Applications
• Northern Data Discovery Portal
• Regional Environmental Assessment
Toolkit - BREA
• Emergency Response Application
Northern Data Discovery GeoPortal
• Web based access to wide variety data of
interest to scientists, policy analysts and
decision makers
– Non-GIS practitioners can use portal
• Data from many departments with goal of each
group/department housing and maintaining their
own data
• Portal provides interface to display, explore,
analyze different datasets
Putting PLACE first
• Geospatial information platform - link to
place-based coordinates
– Web based application
allows various information
layers from different
organizations to be
visualized and analyzed
without managing the
data
Environment Canada’s Monitoring …
Northern Oil and Gas Potential…
Northern Shipping…
The Beaufort Sea – Wildlife and Monitoring
Protected Areas and EC
Monitoring
Important Wildlife Areas (EC, DFO,
Territories)
Traditional
Knowledge/Use
The Beaufort Sea – Kendall Island MBS
Shoreline sensitivity to oil spills (eSPACE)
Regional Environmental Assessment Toolkit
BREA
• Intended to aid government, industry, Aboriginal groups,
resource managers and public stakeholders in better
understanding the geographic distribution of areas which
are sensitive for environmental and socio-economic
reasons in the face of economic development
• Explore and visualize data
• Share and distribute data
– Upload / download (with restrictions/control)
• Visualize and analyze interactions between biological or
socio-economic variables with economic development
– Where are potential conflict areas?
– Cumulative effects scenarios
Advanced Functionality
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2 Separate Tools Under “Cumulative Effects
Scenario” menu
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Analyze existing sensitivity layers (AANDCPEMT) using the weighted overlay tool
Take vector sensitivity data either in portal or
uploaded (i.e. Important bird areas) and generate
VEC Sensitivity raster that can be incorporated
Output new raster, named, stored
Raster Calculator (simplified)
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Combine rasters (with weightings) to
create new outputs
Emergency Response Application
Geotagged video
Mixed sediment beach with woody debris, upper intertidal zone, Yukon
Summary
• Organizations make web services available –
maximize use of existing data hubs
• Data stored, managed, updated by responsible
organization – can be ingested, displayed,
analyzed by others
• Requires coordination, adherence to standards,
interoperability
• Arctic Ocean Observing System (AOOS)
working example