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Geographic Information Infrastructuressupporting Energy Infrastructures
Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck, PhD
Panel on Data Needs, Mitigation Methods and Tools for Siting and Permitting US DOE Quadrennial Energy Review Public Meeting: Infrastructure Siting
Cheyenne, Wyoming | 21 August 2014
Geography matters in infrastructure siting
Location
Condition
Human‐environment interaction
Place‐based economic sustainabilityis often constrained by social and environmental characteristics.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
Place‐based decision making can be supported with spatial data infrastructures
Images: FGDC (L); Harvey, F. (R).
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Challenges for SDI development, maintenance and sharingexist at all levels of jurisdiction
Geospatial technologies (including Web GIS) enable data‐to‐information transformations
Wyoming Initiatives
Source: http://energy.wyo.gov/Source: geospatialhub.org
Regional and national systems
Source: http://westgovchat.org/
Geospatial challengesin energy infrastructure siting
• Data availability ‐ e.g., gaps• Data quality – e.g., current,
complete• Data access – e.g.,
discovery, sensitivity• Maintenance – both data
and applications
• Application adoption and use‐ ease of use, workflow integration
‐ supporting connectivity
• Interoperability – across spatial scales, jurisdictions, platforms, etc.