Author(s)

Hassane Jarar Oulidi¹, Aniss Moumen²

¹Hassania School for Public Works, Route d’El Jadida, Casablanca, Morocco.
²Geosciences Laboratory of Natural Resources (GeoNaRes), Faculty of Sciences, IbnTofial University, Kenitra, Morocco.

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.

Spatial Data Infrastructure, Groundwater Resources, OGC Standards, Geoportal, Morocco

Oulidi, H. and Moumen, A. (2015) Towards a Spatial Data Infrastructure and an Integrated Management of Groundwater Resources. Journal of Geographic Information System, 7, 667-676. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2015.76054.