West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop

ICAN Icon On April 23 to 24, 2009, a West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop was hosted by the Washington State Department of Ecology and the NOAA Coastal Services Center at the NOAA Western Regional Center in Seattle, Washington, USA. The workshop brought together, for the very first time, over 30 participants from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California to discuss coastal atlas interoperability issues.

Participants in the workshop, which was sponsored by the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN), represented state coastal zone management programs, state universities, four branches of NOAA, private consulting firms, and non-governmental organizations. Discussion included the use of MMI resources to develop a common ontology catalog to make datasets more compatible across atlas applications.

The full proceedings of the workshop, web links, and presentation files are available from the ICAN portal.

Posted June 17th, 2009 by deepseadawn