Conceptual Framework for Geospatial Data Security

Abstract

Due to rapid growth of distributed network and Internet, it becomes easy for data providers and users to access, manage, and share voluminous geospatial data in digital form. With Internet, it becomes very easy to distribute and copy geospatial data. Therefore, it becomes necessary to protect geospatial data from illegal and unauthorized usage. The increase availability of tools and techniques to access and disseminate geospatial data has made more urgent to protect it. Security mechanism should be enforced at geospatial data storage, dissemination, and at data retrieval to protect geospatial data from illicit users. In this paper, conceptual framework for geospatial data security is proposed by considering unique security requirements of geospatial data.