Goal: Provide an authoritative database of all Antarctic place
names approved by recognised bodies, for reference by national Antarctic
naming authorities, scientists and operators.
Activities:
Continue to collect descriptions and dates of approval for letters B to Z
Address non-responding countries via letter through former GGI
representatives / SCAR delegates / COMNAP delegates / Place Names Committees
For new or modified entries include source of co-ordinates (Australia to
suggest fields)
If countries supply names for submarine features advise GEBCO
Investigate links to existing gazetteers for place names above 60° South
Publish a "Supplement 2004" including all new information
compiled since 1998
Remove SCOUT program from website
Prepare position paper on multiple names for SCAR XXVIII
Advise KGIS and Larseman Hills GIS projects on pilot studies related to
establish common coordinates per SCAR Gazetteer feature using GIS
Address the resourcing of the SCAR Composite Gazetteer from two years on
prior to SCAR XXVIII
If you are interested in obtaining an
ArcInfo export file (.e00)
containing all CGA entries at 1 January 2002 then please visit the
Geoscience Australia site.
Goal: Provide a SCAR standard small scale topographic GIS database,
for use by scientists and operators, and contribute topographic data to global
mapping initiatives.
Activities:
Australia to check coding for ice shelves / glacier tongues
Add Chinese / Lambert traverses for version 4.0
Italy to supply ITASE data for version 4.1
Release ADD 4.0 in August 2002
Release ADD 4.1 including bedrock contours from BEDMAP, improved elevation
data derived from BKG ERS Altimeter DEM, and improved metadata in Decemeber 2002
(provided funding is available)
Get advice from other SCAR groups on northern limits for extension above 60°S
Workshop on extension above 60°S: To investigate northern limits and to
involve relevant national data providers in the project
Identify data sources for extension above 60°S
Migrate the ADD to object oriented
data model and create the Antarctic Map
Server
Goals: To maintain a public-access catalogue of all Antarctic mapping products
Activities:
Ask relevant countries through former GGI representatives / SCAR
delegates / COMNAP delegates to check existing entries and to add new or
missing ones
Evaluate which countries will provide translation of catalogue interface
into Spanish, French, and Russian (Australia to write explanatory notes first)
Goal: To produce an integrated geographic database for use by all
countries, for use in multi-disciplinary applications.
Activities:
Continue obtaining and integrating data: high resolution topography for
Eastern part of the island, thematic data
Evaluate available nearshore bathymetry data
Publish meta data on the Antarctic Master Directory
Maintain database, website and user's manual
Continue promoting KGIS among users / data producers (attend 3rd
Scientific Coordinators Meeting on KGI, liase with CEP, COMNAP and IAATO)
Maintain close links to related GIS projects on KGI
Organise KGIS workshop in March/April 2003 in Freiburg including
participants from Argentina, Brasil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Germany,
Korea, Poland, Russia, UK, Uruguay (provided funding is available)
Continue contributing to the development for the SCAR spatial data standards
A UK-Germany pilot study on place names: propose common coordinates per
SCAR Gazetteer feature using GIS (provided funding is available)
Link data into Cybercartographic Atlas (provided funding is available)
TC211 "Standards-In-Action" symposium - presentation on SCAR FTC
to TC211 meeting (Switzerland, 21 May 2003) - Steffen Vogt to attend and present
current research.
Goal: To develop a distributed network of national Antarctic online
atlas nodes linked to the Cybercartographic Atlas hub.
Activities:
Version 2 of US Antarctic Atlas (incorporating ADD V3.0) be made available
online by end 2002
Build up a collaborative group for participation in the project
USA to provide Communications and Outreach Group a list of new satellite
missions relevant to Antarctic geospatial information to be made available
on the GGI website - October 2002
Keep group members informed on available imagery collections
- contact for aerial photography collections - August 2002
- details on what they have - September 2002
- USARC provide scanned flight line indexes for web site - December 2002)
Continue development of the content of the Atlas (August 2002 - March 2003)
Contact key groups in the scientific standing groups and standing
committees of SCAR to incorporate case studies for the atlas (August 2002 - March 2003)
Consolidate linkages with the key online nodes for the atlas and add new
nodes as appropriate (August - December 2002)
Develop contacts with key information providers/users of the Atlas such as
COMNAP, IAATO, etc. (August 2002 - March 2003)
Begin full implementation of the Atlas (January 2003)
Complete a working version of the atlas for demonstration at the XXVIII
SCAR meeting, Bremen, Germany, July 2004
Goal: Provide a SCAR standard small scale topographic
GIS database, for use by scientists and operators, and contribute
topographic data to global mapping initiatives.
Activities:
(if external funding is available)
Provide Antarctic data to the Global Mapping project
Print Version 3.0 Antarctic Digital Database [ADD]
manual - Flyer is now available [219 Kb]
Develop and release Version 4.0 of the ADD
- Incorporate new 1:250K and smaller scale data from members
- Revise coastline and glaciers from radar data
- Incorporate BEDMAP contours
- Review extent to include sub-Antarctic islands
- Review production CD-ROM
- Review implications of new SCAR Spatial Data Model
Goal: Provide an authoritative database of all
Antarctic place names approved by recognised bodies, for
reference by national Antarctic naming authorities, scientists
and operators.
Activities:
Database development
– incorporate new names as supplied by members
– make revisions to the names database
– collect descriptions and approval dates from members
– incorporate descriptions and approval dates in the
database
Website Development
– release updates each quarter
– design a version control system
– develop a data access and user registration facility
Publish the updated letter "A" with descriptions, date and
toponymic analysis
Goal: To define the user requirements of on-line atlas technology by
SCAR and develop implementation strategies
for an Antarctic Cybercartographic Atlas
Activities:
Identify potential user requirements and contributors including GOSEAC,
GLOCHANT, COMNAP, ATCM, JCADM and other SCAR Working Groups
Research capabilities of existing systems and data (both SCAR and non-SCAR)
availability
Develop an integretion strategy with the SCAR Science on-line atlas
Program Coordinators: Mrs Janet Thomson (UK) and Dr Jörn
Sievers (Germany)
Program Objective: To integrate and coordinate Antarctic
mapping and GIS programs, and to make fundamental reference data available
to the Antarctic and global user communities.
Metadata: (Australia)
- liaise with JCADM to develop guidelines and examples for preparation of
DIFs (metadata records) for maps, digital data and aerial photography;
- distribute guidelines and examples to members;
- members to submit metadata to their National Antarctic Data Centres (or
directly to the Antarctic Master Directory).
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica:
(Italy)
- prepare and distribute guidelines for supply of
names approval dates and descriptions;
- members to provide corrections, additions, dates and descriptions;
- discuss with SCAR inclusion of station and special area names, with SCAR as source;
- process all updates and corrections;
- maintain CGA web site with monthly updates;
- add approval dates and descriptions as they become available;
- publish addendum to first edition, and distribute at SCAR XXVI.
Publications: (Australia, Italy, UK, Germany)
- draft a paper on history and application of the CGA and circulate for review;
- submit final paper to "Polar Record";
- produce and distribute CGA brochure and publicise CGA web site.
Regional Names: (Germany, UK, Australia)
- compile draft reference map defining boundaries of Antarctic regions;
- circulate to members for review and comment;
- publish a final version for SCAR XXVI, and include a digital version in the ADD
Antarctic Digital
Database (ADD): (UK)
- members to provide new digital topographic data (from 1:250K to 1:5M);
- complete ADD updating process;
- produce new generalised map data;
- publish Version 3 on World Wide Web.
Goal: To facilitate availability of integrated fundamental GIS
datasets (including surface elevation, bedrock elevation, bathymetry,
coastline and features) over Antarctica, through liaison with other
programs and international agencies, for use by global change researchers
and other scientists.
Project Plan: (Australia)
- small information paper and associated graphics to explain the project.
Specifications: (Australia)
- finalise data product requirements, in consultation with GLOCHANT;
- develop data product standards, based on ISO TC211 and Global Mapping.
Projects: (Australia)
- promote specifications to key agencies and projects;
- support integration of fundamental datasets, as appropriate.
Digital Topographic Database (ADD) (Janet Thomson, United Kingdom) -
Revise Antarctic Digital Topographic Database holdings, make corrections
available and concentrate resources on improved small scale data set for
electronic access.
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (Jorn Sievers, Germany) - develop a SCAR
collaborative proposal for production of an ice surface DEM (to 79 degrees S)
from interferometric SAR data of the ERS-1/ERS-2 Tandem Mission.
Ground Control Point (GCP) Library (Jorn Sievers, Germany) - develop a
digital image library of GCPs suitable for use in remote sensing applications,
and publish on the WWW (initial application to be the RAMP project).
Geographic Data Integration (Drew Clarke, Australia) - develop a SCAR
proposal for collection, integration and publication of fundamental geographic
datasets of surface elevation, bedrock elevation, coastline and bathymetry,
drawing on existing SCAR and other national and international programs.
Develop product specifications for an electronic distributed Atlas of
Scientific Stations in conjunction with COMNAP and a prototype for
consideration at XXV SCAR. Identify possible funding options for production.
The Working Group agreed to recommend that SCAR, COMNAP and the Treaty adopt
a number of principles regarding place naming practices, and to defer further
action on the toponymic guidelines pending a response to those recommendations.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer (Roberto Cervallati, Italy) - To produce a
comprehensive overview of the present situation of geographic names used for
Antarctica. Further Details
Digital Topographic Database (ADD) (Janet Thomson, United Kingdom) - Evaluate
the SCAR Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) version 1.0, design the next
generation of the SCAR Antarctic Digital Database (ADD 2.0) and seek the
resources to achieve its production as a future work period.
Further Details
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (Jorn Sievers, Germany) - Demonstrate the
application of radar satellite data to dynamic climate-related processes
(ice mass balance, Global Change, etc) in Antarctica.
Further Details
Bathymetric Data (Victor Villanueva-Lopez, Chile) - Identify scientific
user needs for bathymetric data, and provide these to the IHO PWGCA and
GEBCO. Collect information on bathymetric data available from other Antarctic
programs and advise GEBCO. Further Details