FME Donation Streamlines Data Loading For United Nations Environment Program
Safe Software announced today that its recent donation of FME will assist the United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre with critical conservation decision-making around the globe. The grant, which consists of both FME software licenses and training credits, will replace costly, labor-intensive processes by enabling the World Conservation Monitoring Centre to streamline data loading into a World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). Information provided by the WDPA is an essential guide to global conservation policy development, and conservation priority assessment, planning and monitoring.
a screenshot of FME
Safe Software's donation of FME technology will provide efficient, multi-format spatial data upload capability for a new implementation of the on-line WDPA. FME will be used to streamline the uploading of data to the WDPA and thereby allow much faster data upload rates than was possible with the old configuration. In the past, updating the WDPA with data provided by a global network of conservation organizations and other agencies was a costly and labor-intensive process for the UNEP-WCMC; data of variable quality provided in multiple formats was manually validated and translated prior to integration into the WDPA. FME’s data translation and transformation capabilities will greatly simplify the update process by allowing each contributing organization to upload their new data to the WDPA in over 200 FME-supported data formats.
an example of GIS and the United Nations Environment Program: The Great Apes Survival Project
FME will automatically perform the format and data model transformations required to ensure that the data is loaded into the database in the formats, schema and projection required by the WDPA. The data validation component of this new decentralized update process will be provided by ESRI ArcGIS Data Interoperability Extension, which is based on Safe Software’s FME technology. Users will receive direct on-line viewing and analysis of protected areas information via a web-based GIS portal provided by ESRI’s ArcGIS Server 9.2 technology.
“Since the company’s establishment in 1993, Safe Software has donated FME technology and training to support many worthwhile projects. I am particularly pleased to be able to support conservation initiatives as important as the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA),” says Don Murray, President of Safe Software. "All the partners in the Proteus Project are to be congratulated for taking the initiative to ensure this vital information is as accessible and as current as possible.”
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