Abu-Dhabi-Geospatial Portal - UAE

Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre

Business Needs

In Abu Dhabi, government entities have invested heavily in GIS technology and geospatial data to meet their own organizational needs. This timely collection, preservation, and distribution of relevant geospatial data is critical to maintain the emirate's spatial data infrastructure and ensure the smooth running of its many governmental and commercial activities. Accordingly, the ADSIC wanted to gather all the Abu Dhabi data and maps with different accessibility privileges in a unified geospatial portal.

Solution Concept

To support the effective usage and sharing of geospatial information in Abu Dhabi, ADSIC launched the AD-SDI initiative, QSIT developed, to provide a framework of standards, policies, data, procedures, technology, and capable staff.
The operations team at the Spatial Data Center (SDC) is utilizing the ArcGIS software suite for data processing, data review and assessment, publication of map services, and GIS analysis and cartography for special projects. Esri technology has also been used in developing the AD-SDI clearinghouse and associated metadata catalog and the supporting services based on ArcGIS Server technology and REST and SOAP interfaces, in addition to mobile GIS applications based on the ArcGIS Mobile solution. Other map viewers were built using Flex and Java APIs.

Golden Points

Easy access to all geospatial information in the emirate
More than 300 maps are being made available to the community
Spatial data is updated and delivered to the AD-SDI community in a timely manner:
Integration with the Enterprise
Huge Cost Savings are being realized in several
Greater sharing and utilization of spatial data in Abu Dhab

Used Software

ArcGIS Desktop
ArcGIS Image Server Extension
Java SDK, Adobe FLEX

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