Federated Marine SDI 2023 - Bidders Q&A Webinar
Start: Thursday 23rd March 2023
End: Friday 24th March 2023
Location: Online
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued the Call For Participation (CFP) for the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot 2023 (FMSDI). A Bidders Q&A Webinar will be held on March 23 at 00:00 UTC, and again on March 24 at 14:00 UTC.
Funding is available, and responses are due by April 14, 2023, @11:59 PM EST.
FMSDI 2023 has three parts, each with the goal of making Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures more powerful and user-oriented. Existing data will be used more effectively and new concepts, including Digital Twins will be tested in different areas.
Part 1: Digital Twin of Land and Sea Interfaces - Singapore. Part 1 will develop and demonstrate the concept of the digital twin in the context of a land-sea scenario in Singapore. The focus is on the evaluation and exploration of existing OGC, IHO, UN-GGIM, and ISO standards and guidelines. Since the areas of land and water are traditionally separated organizationally, integrating data concerning land, sea, and their interface at the coast poses a challenge. With approximately 30% of Singapore’s land mass being less than 5m above sea level, data integration and analysis of “what if” scenarios within the Digital Twin are a top priority for Singapore.
Part 2: Digital Arctic Connecting Land and Sea - Canada. Part 2 also addresses data integration issues in the context of Digital Twins, but this time for the Arctic. With the loss of sea ice in the Arctic, continuing ocean warming, stronger winds and currents, and accelerated shoreline erosion affecting Arctic communities, efficient data usage and analysis is of the utmost importance for Canada.
Part 3: Integrating Land & Sea for Various Use Cases - Caribbean. Part 3 of the project will use the warmer climes of the Caribbean to investigate how data developed primarily for navigation at sea can be used in other ways. The goal is to gain a better understanding of the data situation in the Caribbean and improve data integration. The pilot will invest in local capacity building and explore the potential of marine data in expanded sea-land contexts.
The OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot 2023 will be organised under OGC’s Collaborative Solutions and Innovation (COSI) Program.