International Coastal Atlas Network affiliates had a high profile at CoastGIS 2018 in Ísafjördur, Iceland from 27-29 September 2018.
Two affiliates were addressed plenary sessions. David Green, University of Aberdeen is the ICAN contact person for the Living North Sea website. His invited lecture featured low-coast monitoring, mapping and modelling of the coast using UAVs with a focus on the potential of small low-cost, off the shelf platforms and sensors with illustrations. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Louis Celliers, formerly with the CSIR in South Africa, hosted ICAN 7 in Cape Town. He is now with the Climate Service Centre in Germany. His lecture focused on systems thinking and its relationship to geomatics. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Five other affiliates gave presentations in the parallel sessions.
- Tanya Haddad, ICAN Steering Group Co-chair with the Oregon Coastal Management Program presented Advancing Oregon Estuarine Habitat Mapping with the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard. Oregon is remapping its estuary habitats with modern data and GIS tools and broadening its data integration efforts to include multiple new data types, remote sensing products and high resolution bathymetry. Their aim is to build a living habitat map product directly usable for local planning processes and a database product for conservation planners and scientists. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Andrus Meiner an ICAN Steering Group member with the EU Environment Agency presented Copernicus land monitoring service for coastal zones. The preparation for production of very high resolution land cover and land use datesets for coastal zones has been initiated with first results expected in 2020. The map product will cover a 10 km wide land area adjacent to the sea coastline for 39 countries with tailored coastal zone land cover and land use mapping nomenclature. The new product will build on existing Copernicus products such as the Urban Atlas for coastal cities, Riparian zones and the Natura 2000 areas. The initiative will cooperate with the Copernicus marine environment monitoring service that is underdevelopment. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- David Hart an ICAN Steering Group member with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute presented Geospatial Technologies to Understand and Communicate Coastal Hazards. Since 2015 a team has been exploring the impact of changing water levels in Lake Michigan on coastal bluffs in eight communities north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Over 60 possible options were developed to help local official and property owners adapt to a changing coast. One of the three themes of options included mapping tools to promote outreach and education about coastal processes. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Andrew Sherin an ICAN Steering Group member with COINAtlantic and your newsletter`s editor made two presentations. The first was on automated processes used by COINAtlantic to maintain the currency and display reliability of the web mapping services accessed by its Search Utility on-line mapping tool. The second presentation was a reprise of the COINAtlantic Data Accessibility Self-Assessment Tool presented at ICAN 7 in Cape Town with modifications that make it compatible with the FAIR principles. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Will McClintock, University of California at Santa Barbara and ICAN contact for SeaSketch co-presented with Charla Burnett SeaSketch`s Ideal Process Planning Model: Ensuring Equitable Decision-making in Marine Spatial Planning. The presentation highlights essential elements of the ideal planning process that is to be used alongside Sea-Sketch for the development of a successful plan. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The presentation contributions to CoastGIS 2018 from ICAN affiliates was strengthened by the participation of other ICANers as delegates including Kathrin Kopke, ICAN Steering Group co-chair, Anja Kreiner, ICAN Steering Group member, Francisco Arias, INVEMAR, Columbia and host for ICAN 8 and Kathy Belpaeme, Provincie West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Overall ICAN made a very significant contribution to CoastGIS 2018. ICAN is grateful to the CoastGIS organizers for including an ICAN workshop to initiate the development of a new ICAN work plan focussed on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the upcoming Decade for Ocean Science.
