The Spatial Data Infrastructure Connection
When GITA is referring the infrastructure, we are referring to all fundamental services, activities, and operations that sustain our communities and way of life—from keeping the lights on to creating safe drinking water to responding to an emergency.
Often times there is another type of infrastructure, called SDI, often associated with the geospatial industry. An SDI is defined as the means to assemble geographic
information that describes the arrangement and attributes of features and phenomena on the
Earth and includes the technology, policies, standards, delivery mechanisms, and financial and
human resources necessary to acquire, process, store, distribute, and use geospatial data.
This section explores the connection between geospatial technology, infrastructure, and SDIs, starting with a white paper released by GITA in its CIP-ER Series, called Spatial Infrastructures.
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