PROCEEDINGS OF THE REMOTE SENSING AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2012 “Changing how we view the world”. University of Greenwich, London, 12-14 September 2012. 1 Keywords: Landmap, APOLLO, GeoKnowledge, ELOGeo, Schools 1. Introduction The Landmap Service provides web-based access to spatial data collections for UK Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE). Landmap negotiates data licensing agreements with a wide range of data providers on behalf of the UK academic community, enabling free-at-the-point-of-use access to spatial data through the Kaia geoportal. Data collections include: Optical and Thermal (orthorectified Landsat 4/5, Landsat 7, SPOT, Mediterranean Landsat, Colour Infrared, TopSat, DMC, Thermal, Red-Edge, Modern and Historic Aerial Photography); Radar (ERS 1, ERS 2, ASAR and PALSAR); Elevation (75m SRTM, 25m DTM, 5m DTM, 2m DSM and LiDAR); Feature (Building Heights, Building Class, Building Blocks, KGPS) and UKMap (7 map layers for London). Landmap implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards for online data viewing and download using ERDAS APOLLO Professional 2011 running on JBoss and Oracle 11g.The first part of this paper will present the new cluster configuration and enhancements provided through the new client. To support the use of spatial data such as remotely sensed images Landmap provides a Learning Zone. The courses provided in the Learning Zone are created by lecturers, students and the commercial sector. The courses range from introductory to advanced level, written following a pedagogic framework reflected in the author guidelines, ensuring consistency of structure across courses (Millin et al., 2009). As part of the JISC Open Educational Resources (OER) Rapid Innovation Programme Landmap was awarded funding to relicense course content to Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA) for those authors willing to relicense and also to migrate the E-Learning for Using Geospatial Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards (ELOGeo) repository to Mimas from the University of Nottingham to ensure long-term sustainability. The second part of this paper will report on the progress that has been made through this project and will introduce the new Spatial Science for Schools content provided through a partnership with the University of Bonn, FIS Project and supported by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). An Academic Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI): Introducing the Enhanced Kaia Geoportal and Learning Zone Millin-Chalabi, G., Kitmitto, K., Schumm, J., Gupta, B. and Tun, Y. Mimas, University of Manchester, Devonshire House, Oxford Road, M13 9QH, UK 0044 161 275 0581; spatial@mimas.ac.uk Abstract The Landmap Service funded by JISC and hosted at Mimas provides an academic Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to deliver and support the use of a wide range of data collections: Optical and Thermal; Radar; Elevation; Feature and UKMap. Recent developments focused on upgrading the Kaia geoportal infrastructure from a standalone configuration using ERDAS APOLLO Advantage 2010.1 to a cluster configuration using ERDAS APOLLO Professional 2011. The benefits of pursuing a cluster configuration include improved failover and service responsiveness. To support the use of the data collections and build a GeoKnowledge Community the service provides a Learning Zone. The Learning Zone is a rapidly expanding part of Landmap with several new developments. Firstly a six month JISC Rapid Innovations Project was awarded to Landmap to restructure the Learning Zone opening up much of the content through Creative Commons licensing. In addition the project will migrate the E-learning for the Open Geospatial Community (ELOGeo) repository into Jorum at Mimas. Secondly Landmap is working in collaboration with the University of Bonn to provide e-learning content to promote the use of remote sensing in schools in the UK called ‘Spatial Science for Schools’ subject areas include Geography, Biology, Mathematics, Geomatics and Physics.