Advancing the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure: Innovations in Automation, Sustainability and Accessible Web Cartography for Mapping the Arctic’s Fragile Ecosystem

The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) is the collection of geospatial data and the standards, policies, applications, and governance that facilitate its access, use, integration, and preservation for the benefit of and use by all Canadians.To foster innovation, inclusion, interoperability, and sustainability in geospatial data particularly in support of mapping and monitoring the Arctic's fragile ecosystems and to increase the adoption and implementation of standards, Natural Resources Canada's CGDI Division is developing the following products: Pan-Arctic Wetland Inventory Baseline derived from satellite imagery and ground-truth data using a machine learning and cloud computing classification methodology o Led by Natural Resources Canada, in collaboration with Arctic National Mapping Agencies, Arctic Council and organisations responsible for wetland conservation, a seamless Arctic wetland's dataset over millions