SLIP Natural Resource Management

Damian ShepherdSLIP NRM Program Manager, Department of Agriculture and FoodJune 2008

A “Data Trawl” - the identification and description of data and information products available to support NRM information requirements

Data Content – What has been achieved?

Agency projects to improve data content and data management – making information more readily available.

Data Content – What has been achieved?

Initiatives:

• Data Survey of Regional projects.

• The Survey identified datasets that have been:– Created

– Utilised

• Development of an “Spatial Data Management Toolkit” for each of the Regional NRM Groups in WA.

Data Content – NRM Regional Groups

Interragator+

Catalogue of geospatial data in WA

(database that holds metadata)

Query what spatial data

exists for a particular:

•Theme

•Geographical Area

What data Exists?

Searching for Data

Data Services

Online electronic delivery to geo referenced images

(wms) or all dataset features (wfs).

Data Services can be used in:•GIS applications (eg., Arcview)•WA Atlas•Google Earth

Accessing data

Downloading Data

MapViewers

Online applications for viewing geospatial

information

•WA Atlas (upgraded)

•NRM Info

Viewing data

Viewing and Querying –

turning data into Information

The difference between data and information …

For more informationWALIS website

http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/

SLIP websitehttps://www2.landgate.wa.gov.au/slip/portal/home/home.htmlSee information under:

Accessing DataWA AtlasInterrogator +

NRM Infohttps://spatial.agric.wa.gov.au/slip