TITLE:
Towards a Spatial Data Infrastructure and an Integrated Management of Groundwater Resources
AUTHORS:
Hassane Jarar Oulidi, Aniss Moumen
KEYWORDS:
Spatial Data Infrastructure, Groundwater Resources, OGC Standards, Geoportal, Morocco
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geographic Information System,
Vol.7 No.6,
December
30,
2015
ABSTRACT: International studies of expertise have shown that the difficulty of data
access is one of the major hindrances that brakes any effort to conduct studies
on groundwater. This research paper is an attempt to address this problematic
through developing a technical framework to implement a Spatial Data
Infrastructure (SDI) with a view to improving the status of access to data related
to groundwater in Morocco, and achieving their interoperability. This prototype
is primarily based on international standards (OGC & ISO) such as Web Map
Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Catalog Web Service (CSW) and Sensor
Observation Service (SOS) accompanied by the use of associated specifications
such as Geography Markup Language (GML) and Filter Encoding (FE). This platform
is considered both as a tool for sharing updated data collected from numerous
and divers source providers, and as a tool of web-based GIS for groundwater
management, which constitutes the basis for decision making.