Spatial industry directions and Victorian government update

Spatial industry directions and

Victorian government update

Bruce Thompson

Director Spatial Information Infrastructure

[email protected]

03 8636 2323

outline

� industry directions

� consolidation and strengthening of national capability

� growth

� internet based applications, services, processes

� proposed Australia New Zealand Spatial Infrastructure (ANZsi)

� Victorian state government update

� Victorian Spatial Council: Diane Daniell

� ePlanning: Susan Brown and Nigel Hutton

� Future Coasts and elevation data: Nathan Quadros

� Notification and Edit Service: John Gallagher

� Positioning Regional Victoria: Hayden Asmussen

� Image Web Server

� use of spatial in bushfire response and recovery

national capability

� proposed National Elevation Data Framework (Bureau of Meteorology)

� Australian Water Resources Information System (Bureau of Meteorology)

� proposed Australia New Zealand Spatial Infrastructure (ANZsi)

� proposed national spatial information network (LYNX 2.0) throughPSMA Australia with links to proposed Commonwealth Spatial Data Integration (CSDI)

� proposed National Information Sharing Strategy: COAG driven policy level initiative

� potential national GNSS CORS network

� re-bid for Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information

ANZsi: ANZLIC objectives

� ANZLIC has grappled, mostly unsuccessfully, with ASDI generally and metadata/discovery specifically for some time

� ANZLIC now intends to build on ASDI and ASDD

� set the strategic vision for ANZsi

� take ownership and accountability for ANZsi

� gain stakeholder support for ANZsi — ANZLIC Council members,

PSMA Australia, ASIBA, CRC-SI, SSI

� proceed to a practical implementation plan

� specific, realistic objectives

� clear performance indicators and milestones

� clear timeline

� clear roles and responsibilities for participants – ANZLIC to lead, but

implementation by partnership

developing the ANZsi vision

� ANZLIC is committed to the building of the Australia New Zealand Spatial Infrastructure — ANZsi

� ANZsi will provide a marketplace for all spatial resources in Australia and New Zealand. It will:

� allow easy publishing and distribution

� allow easy discovery and access

� enable suppliers and users to transact with confidence

� make spatial resources useable for all


� the ANZLIC vision is that by 2011 ANZsi will be a thriving spatial marketplace

� public, private and academic sectors of the spatial industry will have

cooperated to build and deliver ANZsi

� all spatial resources — data, products, services and processes — will

be easily discovered and acquired through the marketplace, driving

benefits and value broadly across all sectors of the Australian

economy, environment and community

� spatial industry participants — the providers of those spatial data,

products, services and processes — will also benefit strongly, both

through increased breadth and depth of the market for spatial

resources, and through the stronger awareness of the value and

opportunities the spatial industry offers


� ANZsi will be available to, and used by all sectors:

� public

� private

� academia

� community

� importantly, ANZsi will also be built to enable both personal and machine-based activities

� remain relevant and of benefit in an information economy

increasingly reliant on machine to machine, application to

application connectivity


� significant infrastructure will be required to realise this vision

� essential to leverage the distributed capability and capacity of existing participants, rather than build a new stand-alone monolithic SI infrastructure

� essential to clearly establish the scope for ANZsi as the marketplace, rather than the supply and demand side infrastructures

� five key market place roles:

� publisher: publish resources (data, products, services, processes) to the

market place)

� acquirer: acquire resources (data, products, services, processes) from

the market place)

� value adder: watch and analyse market activity and transactions for

business intelligence and opportunities to create improved or new

resources (data, products, services, processes)

� notifier/public input: allow users to participate — customer reviews of

resources, notification of specific errors and omissions

� administrator/regulator: manage the market place and facilitate the

needs of publishers, acquirers, value adders


developing the ANZsi approach

� how are we going to deliver ANZsi?

� first a model: www.amazon.com

� Amazon has the core characteristics of ANZsi

� a market place

� publishers

� acquirers

� value adders

� notifiers/reviewers

� administrator/regulator

� clear commercial imperative

� important dichotomy:

� strong commercial focus means private sector

� regulation means public sector


� a range of ANZsi-like services emerging, predominantly in the public sector

� the Canadian Government’s GeoConnections

(http://www.geoconnections.org/Welcome.do)

� the Californian Government’s CalAtlas (http://atlas.ca.gov/);

and

� WeoGeo (http://www.weogeo.com/), a private company


� proposed approach for defining ANZsi is:

� develop a preliminary proposal for ANZsi

� present ANZsi proposal to ANZLIC for endorsement

� present ANZsi to jurisdictional/public sector participants for

endorsement

� present ANZsi to other stakeholders (ASIBA, SSI, CRC-SI) for

endorsement

� establish interim ANZsi Project Control Board to oversee

subsequent stages

� develop governance and business model, including funding and

revenue

� develop business and functional requirements

� establish cost benefit

� gain final endorsement from key stakeholders

� proceed to implementation

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by July 2009

by Sept 2009

Image Web Server

� 736 georeferenced images

� satellite imagery

� aerial photography

� scanned maps (geology, topographic, etc)

� 1.3 terabytes

� 40 organisations

� servicing an average of 55,000 maps requests a month

� 105,000 map requests in February 2009

� hundreds of users accessing IWS through simple browser interfaces

� http://ima.geomatic.com.au

bushfire response and recovery

�extent and duration of fire activity

� role in fire recovery�existing resource allocation to mapping and support activities in

integrated Emergency Coordination Centre (iECC)

�existing resource allocation for logistics, administration, catering etc (almost all DSE staff have a designated emergency response role)

�existing automated map production, for response and for recovery

�broader coordination of spatial information requirements, especially satellite imagery and aerial photography

�spatial processing of field operational data acquisition (limited role)

�significant role in forthcoming recovery stage (VBRRA and Royal Commission)

bushfire response and recovery

2009 fire extents: ~ 4,200 km2

2009 fire extents, compared to 2006-07

� 2006-07: 15,500 kM2

� 2008-09: 4,200 kM2 (to date)

2009 fire extents: 17 Feb to 2 Mar

2009 fire extents: 17 Feb to 2 Mar

2009 daily fire extents, base comparison to 2006-07 fires

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� approximately 9,600 address points within fire extents

Kinglake West, address points

Kinglake West, address points and RIAs

automated map production fire recovery

� built for hardcopy and digital topographic map outputs

� customised for Fire Recovery Mapping in 2006, based on existing Victorian 1:50,000 mapping index and topographic mapping symbology for consistent look and feel

� dynamically accesses:

� VicMap Framework data and

authoritative maintained datasets

� DSE business datasets

� utilities business datasets


� six themes developed to meet specific needs of recovery phase:

� crown land

� cultural

� topographic

� water

� flora and fauna

� utilities and

recreational assets


� one source of mapping, reduces mapping duplication and inconsistencies by business units

� used for planning and operations

� quick turnaround

� easily updated

� themes easily added

� involvement of DSE, Victorian Government, utilities

� business areas without resources or mapping expertise have business assets mapped

extensive use of Image Web Server

� significant use of IWS

� new organisations given access:

� DIGO

� Insurance Manufacturers Australia

� Grocon/Survey21 consortium

� Victorian Bushfire Recovery &

Reconstruction Authority

� image requests up from 64,000 in January to 105,000 in February

� 10 month average of ~55,000 image requests, before February

� Landsat TM5 and SPOT provided by DIGO and GA

� extensive aerial photography

� ftp site established for supply and delivery of imagery for usesbeyond IWS

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IWS in conjunction with VMAS platform

� existing VMAS functionality re-skinned:

� initially for Victoria Police – a simple map browser

� then for Insurance Manufacturers Australia (IAG, RACV) to

facilitate processing of insurance claims

� then for Victorian Bushfire Recovery and Reconstruction

Authority (VBRRA) and one of its contractors, Grocon/Survey21

consortium

� progressively adding functionality depending on requirements

field operational data acquisitions

� first pass: Rapid Incident Assessments (RIAs)

� rapid initial assessment of damage/impact

� informs initial response, scope for recovery stage

� usually undertaken by police and/or defence personnel

� some 4,971 RIAs collected in first pass (from a theoretical limit

of ~9,600 address points in fire extent)

� subsequent multiple specific passes by multiple agencies in the field, collecting different information, for detailed recovery/reconstruction planning

� DPI: stock and fences

� Local Government: roads and trees, assets

� DSE: Crown Land, flora/fauna habitat

� DHS: people and communities

� Utilities: utility assets

field operational data acquisitions

� key/basic information deliverables

� property/cadastre, roads, addresses, aerial photography and satellite

imagery

� the ability to provide a scope (or upper limit) of address points within the

fire extent was a key piece of information

� the ability to match address points to RIAs underlaid by property base

and aerial photography

� personnel who understood what were, and weren’t, valid coordinates

� personnel for information processing

� most field operational and field support staff volunteers from private sector or interstate

� DSE staff fully allocated to ECC rosters, and to existing support

commitments

� familiarisation with Victorian resources and institutional

arrangements

basic lessons learned

� imagery coordination difficult to achieve

� conflicting objectives

� multiple agencies

� multiple offers of products from incompatible or inappropriate

acquisition platforms

� field data acquisition at this scale becomes a major requirement, and requires pre-planning and coordination

� doesn’t appear to be addressed in protocols

� correct address and/or coordinates absolutely essential – if you

know where it is, you can validate/correct the rest, if you don’t,

it’s completely useless

� the need for information processing to be in the field, close tothe field staff

� RIAs typically in batches or sequences that allow ‘filling in the

gaps’, not possible in remote data entry facilities

conclusion

� spatial industry beginning to mature

� emergence as a major strategic direction for Australian government

� continued growth of private sector, utilities

� continued, and expanding use in state and local government

� Victorian government committed to working with other levels of government, and the private sector, to maximise industry growth and benefits

� key drivers and shapers of industry focus and direction over the next 3 to 5 years?

� Australian government engagement with spatial resources

� bushfire recovery, and the Royal Commission

� positioning capabilities provided by services such as GPSnet

� urban/regional planning and sustainable urban

development, the ePlanning agenda

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Spatial industry directions and Victorian government update