Development of regional spatial data infrastructure (SDI) case study in hearth of Borneo

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

The Heart of Borneo (HoB) initiative was declared on 12 February 2007 in Bali, with purpose to collaborate conservation activities in Borneo Island among Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia. The initiative will join 23 National Parks from three different countries. Concerning the fragmented geographic information from heterogeneous sources, there is a necessity to establish a better management of geographic information among three countries in Borneo Island. The establishment of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is one possible solution. In fact, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia have already developed National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI). The current status of NSDIs is critical for the development of a regional conservation SDI for HoB, but the information for current status of NSDI developments is not available. In this research, the current status of NSDI developments is examined by adopting Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP). The analysis continues with the identification of required components for developing a regional conservation SDI in HoB. The state of play analysis for the European SDI (INSPIRE) is adopted to investigate available and missing components. On this basis, recommendations for the regional SDI are provided. A prototypical geoportal for regional SDI in HoB is implemented by utilizing GeoNetwork software.