Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada
Volume 20, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 49-60
DOI: 10.5894/rgci-n257
* Submission: 3 MAR 2019; Peer review: 8 SEP 2019; Revised: 5 MAR 2020; Accepted: 16 MAR 2020; Available on-line: 25 MAY 2020
Island-based Information Management System-GIS Data Centre as a key tool for spatial planning in the South Atlantic UK Overseas Territories
Ilaria Marengo@ 1 , Amelie A. Augé1, 2, Letizia Campioni3, Denise Blake4, Samantha Cherrett5, Andrew J. Richardson6, Sam B. Weber7
@ Corresponding author: marengoila@gmail.com
1 South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, Stanley Cottage, Stanley, FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands. E-mail: marengoila@gmail.com
2 Department of Conservation, Whangarei, New Zealand. E-mail: amelie.auge@gmail.com
3 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Center, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Rua Jardim do Tabaco 34, 1149-041 Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail: letiziacampioni@hotmail.com
4 Policy and Economic Development Unit, Falkland Islands Government, Thatcher drive, Stanley, FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands. E-mail: environmental.officer@sec.gov.fk
5 Environmental Management Division, Saint Helena Government, Essex House, Jamestown, STHL 1ZZ, Saint Helena. E-mail: samantha.cherrett@fco.gov.uk
6 Conservation Department, Ascension Island Government, Georgetown, ASCN 1ZZ, Ascension Island. E-mail: andy.james.richardson@gmail.com
7 Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK. e-mail: sam.weber@exeter.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
Environmental data require fit-for-purpose data management systems and related spatial applications to be used effectively for management. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become a key tool to analyse and visualise spatial data with their increasing volume and variety. Well-designed data centres that combine a data management system with GIS, reduce costs and improve efficiency for spatial planning processes. Small or remote territories and islands such as the South Atlantic UK Overseas Territories (SAUKOT), with limited financial resources and capacity, face many challenges to develop such centres. In 2013 an island-based Information Management System (IMS)-GIS Data Centre was established in the SAUKOT. Until then, governments did not have the ability to use spatial planning effectively to manage their environments. The IMS-GIS Data Centre has been operating as: 1) repository of high-quality reference datasets to support decision making, 2) interactive data visualisation to share maps and information with stakeholders and 3) data portals to assist data discovery and sharing. This paper describes i) how the SAUKOT have built their own IMS-GIS Data Centres ii), how these Data Centres have provided effective and manageable solutions to support terrestrial and marine spatial planning processes and iii) the challenges the Data Centres are still facing. Thanks to relatively simple data management concepts and the use of open-source programs, the IMS-GIS Data Centre is transferable to other contexts sharing similar challenges to those faced by the SAUKOT.
Keywords: Data management system, data centre, GIS, spatial planning, open-source, remote islands.
RESUMO
Os dados ambientais exigem uma adequação dos sistemas de gestão de dados e respetivas aplicações geográficas para que sejam utilizados eficazmente na gestão. Os Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (SIG) tornaram-se uma ferramenta essencial para analisar e visualizar dados espaciais com seu volume e variedade crescentes. Os Data centers bem projetados, que combinam um sistema de gestão de dados com SIG, reduzem custos e melhoram a eficiência dos processos de planeamento espacial. Os territórios e ilhas pequenas ou remotas, como os Territórios Ultramarinos do Atlântico Sul do Reino Unido (SAUKOT), com recursos e capacidade financeira limitados, enfrentam muitos desafios para desenvolver esses centros. Em 2013, um centro de dados do Sistema de Gestão de Informações em Ilhas (IMS) foi estabelecido no SAUKOT. Até então, os governos não tinham a capacidade de usar o planeamento espacial efetivamente para gerir os seus ambientes. O IMS-GIS Data Center opera como: 1) repositório de conjuntos de dados de referência de alta qualidade para apoiar a tomada de decisão, 2) visualização interativa de dados para compartilhar mapas e informações com as partes interessadas e 3) portais de dados para auxiliar na descoberta e compartilhamento de dados. Este artigo descreve i) como os SAUKOT construíram os seus próprios Data Centers IMS-GIS; ii) como esses Data Centers forneceram soluções eficazes e geríveis para apoiar os processos de planeamento espacial terrestre e marinho; e iii) os desafios que os Data Centers ainda enfrentam. Graças a conceitos de gestão de dados relativamente simples e o uso de programas de código aberto, o IMS-GIS Data Center é transferível para outros contextos que compartilham desafios semelhantes aos enfrentados pelo SAUKOT.
Palavras-chave: Sistema de gestão de dados, data center, GIS, planeamento espacial, código aberto, ilhas remotas.
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