FOCUS ON:
Earth Observation essential for geohazard mitigation
More than 250 scientists from around the world gathered for a five-day workshop at ESA's Earth Observation Centre in Frascati.
News Flash
Upcoming Events
Resources & Tools
British Columbia Smart Toponymy
This proposal is aimed at creating feature-based toponymy for the hydrographic features in the province. Fundamentally there are two issues to be resolved: defining the geographic extent of each feature and associating the appropriate name to it. This work will be done for coastal features such as bays, channels and coastal islands, for lakes and islands in fresh water, and for streams. The work will leverage related ongoing work pertaining to enhancing TRIM data through the development of a corporate watershed atlas. An additional goal of the project is to provide a 'delineation methodology' which can be used by other provinces/governments for their own toponymy projects. The issue of defining extent can be complex for certain features. The research, analysis and any alienation tools coming out of this project would be a way to reduce the effort of other jurisdictions facing similar concerns.
Primary Partner:
Government of British Columbia - Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management (Base Mapping and Geomatics Services Branch)
Victoria,
British Columbia;
Partners: The Atlas of Canada, Canadian Hydrographic Service
Funding From GeoConnections: $280,000.00 ( 48.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: March , 2002
Estimated Completion Date: March, 2004
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: British Columbia;