What types of content does an MSDI support?
MSDIs support the use of content on a large variety of topics including bathymetry, geology, marine infrastructure, ocean environment, boundaries and limits, and oceanography.
Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure
Fuel economic prosperity
Supporting Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Access and understand hydrospatial information
- Change detection and analysis
- Scaling operations
- Driving the blue economy
- Enabling business continuity
Coastal and shoreline change analysis
Coastal and shoreline areas are rapidly changing and provide unique challenges for mapping. Due to the dynamic environment, authoritative and timely information is essential to making informed decisions and ensuring safety of life and property. National mapping and geospatial authorities need trusted information to identify critical impacts from natural and human-made changes that affect local communities. To support coastal and shoreline change analysis, a geospatial infrastructure is required to sense, understand, and respond intelligently. The use of GIS provides the ability to plan and mitigate organized responses that support the best use of local and national resources.
National scalability and real-time management
National geographies are large, varied, and hard to chart. Natural resources, population dynamics, and rising sea levels shape these areas as they face economic and environmental adaptations to climate change. To deal with mapping these changes, ArcGIS enables geospatial organizations to scale operations using the cloud (public, on-premises, and hybrid) for production, real-time operations, planning, management, and effective mitigation/response efforts.
Transformation to support the blue economy
Hydrographic and oceanographic organizations are evolving from their traditional roles, being asked to go beyond hydrographic data collection and production. Traditionally, they are seen as custodians and producers of marine geospatial information. These hydrospatial offices are modernizing their efforts through an MSDI, moving beyond production and enabling information that supports a blue economy. These efforts include provision of information where elevation doesn't stop at the shoreline, management of national resources through the offices' marine cadastre and exclusive economic zones (EEZ), and production of navigational and scientific products.
Challenges to business continuity
Minimizing the impacts of disasters on the maritime ecosystem can only be possible by utilizing continuous geospatial data feeds, performing impactful analysis, enabling artificial intelligence, and disseminating data and knowledge in effective ways. Disruptions to the maritime industry can have significant consequences for local and global economies. These consequences affect the trade of goods, services, and commodities. Understanding the impacts of disasters on the maritime supply lines is required to increase the resilience of maritime economies in order to hasten disaster recovery. Geographic accuracy is essential in detecting and responding to any natural or human-made disaster. GIS should be used to support many national recovery efforts at all levels of government:
- Assess risks
- Evaluate threats
- Track and maintain situational awareness
- Efficiently allocate resources
- Provide community awareness
- Minimize disruptions
Products and solutions for MSDI
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National maritime and hydrography strategies
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