Abstract

An SDI to Support Conservation
Track: Spatial Data Infrastructure
Author(s): Brian Embley

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has defined an aggressive goal of protecting 10% of all habitats by the year 2015. In support this enormous effort, TNC understands that geospatial information is critical in prioritizing conservation efforts towards this goal as well as measuring progress.

TNC boasts 800+ loosely connected GIS professionals working at dozens of office locations across 4 continents. As much of the information needed to support TNC's aggressive conservation goal is created and maintained at local field offices, a means to share discover and share data is being developed in the form of TNC's international, distributed data sharing infrastructure.

This presentation will look at TNC's current status of a multi-node geodatabase strategy including data flow, data access and challenges inherent in a large, federated organization.

Brian Embley
The Nature Conservancy
15 E Ridge Pike
Suite 100
Conshohocken , Pennsylvania 19428
United States
Phone: (610) 834-1323
E-mail: bembley@tnc.org