Regional Challenges, Benefits and Opportunities of Exchanging Geodetic Data

17-19 October 2017, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

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The list of presentations:

• Mr. Graeme Blick (New Zealand) - What are the social, technical, environmental and economic benefits and opportunities of accessing and sharing geodetic data?
  Overview – provided insights into why geodetic data exchanging / sharing is beneficial to various sectors from a technical, societal and scientific perspective.  It was also mentioned that geodetic data assists disaster risk reduction; fulfils a broader “community” responsibility of information sharing and knowledge building; and that data sharing is a pathway for a modernised Global Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF) and capacity development.
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• Mr. Rob Sarib (Australia) - Exchanging and Sharing Geodetic Data
  Overview - provide insight into data sharing terminologies and policy development; includes principles, rationale for data sharing and a structure of a policy .
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• Dr. John Dawson (Australia) - Geodetic Data Sharing and Formats
  Overview – using Australia as an example this presentation explained the geodetic data types and formats that should be shared, and how it can be shared.  In particular GNSS static data, GNSS real time data streams, sea level and tidal data, and gravity data.
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• Mr. Neil Ashcroft (Singapore) - Exchanging and Sharing Geodetic Data
  Overview - discussed the importance of standards to under write the ability to share geodetic data between organisations.
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• Mr. Peter Hedlund (United Kingdom) - Spatially Connected Government in Great Britain
  Overview – gave to examples of how open data standards and sharing of the Ordinance Survey Reference Network allowed agencies in the UK to benefit from using an “active” network as a definitive source of positional truth.
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• Mr. Teo CheeHai (United Nations) - Compendium on Licensing of Geospatial Information:Facilitating Data Sharing of Geodetic Data
  Overview - linked the importance of data sharing to the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Management. The presentation also overviewed the UN-GGIM Compendium on Licensing Geospatial Information, and addressed the release of geospatial information (in this case geodetic data) under an “open” license.
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• Dr. John Dawson (Australia) - Geodetic Data Sharing and Formats
  Overview – reviewed the data sharing challenges as measured in the 2013 UN-GGIM GGRF Global Questionnaire.
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• Mr. Basara Miyahara (Japan) - Summary of UN-GGIM-AP questionnaire on geodetic data sharing
  Overview – ummarised the UN GGIM AP responses from past and present questionnaires which then showed the current state of play of geodetic data sharing, and any trends or major obstacles in the region.
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• Mr. Mikael Lilje (Sweden) - Data Sharing in Europe
  Overview - delivered a presentation on the various Nordic and global data sharing initiatives and agreements (including INSPIRE) that Sweden are involved in.   It also highlighted a regional and formal approach to sharing spatial information between countries.
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