Training module "Use of SDI for coastal areas"

Emanuele Roccatagliata

ICCOPS - Landscape, Natural and Cultural Heritage Observatory (IT)

The Leonardo Da Vinci GI-INDEED project has its background in the success of the Nature-GIS Thematic Network of the IST Programme. The aim is to "map" the Nature-GIS approach (for effective link between the stakeholders of geo-information and of nature/protected areas management) on the realm of training, with the exploitation of the support that the two domains (GI, nature) can mutually offer: a support to planning and management (and communication to public) on one side, a meaningful and multi-faceted application field on the other side.

For this reason, always in the perspective of a technical support to SDI's implementation and to the diffusion of the INSPIRE principles, GI-INDEED plans, besides two basic modules dedicated to SDI's and to environmental web services, two application modules that develop in the sectoral field of two of the thematic networks promoted by GISIG, Nature-GIS and ICAM-GI. You have then Module 3, "SDI's for protected areas management" and Module 4, "SDI's for coastal zone management".

ICCOPS is partner in the project and is in charge of Module 4. According to the previous training experience and to be more efficacious, the syllabus of the 4th module has been structured into two main parts, one conceived as a tutorial, enriched by the possibility of practical tests and exercises, on the need, criteria, and development of integrated coastal area management; the other one is intended instead to offer the possibility of a practical implementation -for coastal management- of what is learnt in the two initial modules, joining together the revision of concepts therein introduced with the assisted web-publication of geo-data. That means among others also a wider audience (GI practitioners and coastal planners, both individuals and organisations).

The trainee has as well available a gallery of use-cases, useful both as example of geo-data web publishing and as illustration of best practice as derived by the shown examples. To enrich this gallery the ECO-IMAGINE community has the opportunity of (and is invited to!) contributing by submitting a practical case. The participants into the conference are then invited to collaborate in such process and the ESRI Award can be a step of such process.