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GEOSS - The Need for Interoperability
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on Thursday November 17, @11:28AM
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Directions Mag has an interesting and important article about GEOSS, the Global Earth Observation System of Systems which recently received support by 60 governments and 40 international organizations. From the article: "Right now, there are a vast number of data buoys floating in the ocean, thousands of land-based environmental stations, and more than 50 environmental satellites orbiting in space. All this technology is creating millions of data sets - and most of these are incompatible, making integrated analyses impossible. When GEOSS is finally realized, all of these individual data sets will be able to be integrated and analyzed, creating vastly superior understanding and prediction of natural and man-made events and conditions and better responses to them."
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The GeoFactor blog reports on last week's Open Geospatial Interoperability Day, part 1 and part 2. From the blog: "While there are some ongoing discussions on and changes upcoming to some of the OGC standards, the industry has clearly arrived regarding at least the major technical issues of geospatial data sharing. [...] Standards are great but they must be transparent to end users. Vendors are working to provide that transparency."
Global Earth Observation System of Systems and SERVIR 2 comments
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Spatial Sustain runs an entry on Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and SERVIR, a related project in Central America. GEOSS was discussed here two years ago. From SS: "The need for real-time data on changes in the Earth’s lands, oceans, atmosphere and biosphere is being fueled in large part by the billions of dollars and thousands of lives that could be saved by using this system for disaster preparedness.
After just two years of existence, GEO has developed 100 different programs and products to monitor and share data about the Earth. The ultimate goal is to link the world’s widely dispersed monitoring devices such as buoys, weather stations and earth observation satellites into one seamless system with a centralized Web portal."
Industry: GEOPortal.org Launched by ESA / GEOSS
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Ogle Earth shortly discuss the newly launched open source GEOPortal 3D globe from ESA / GEOSS.
From OE: "It’s open source and soon downloadable so that you can incorporate it on your own website. It looks quite slick — it’s a browser-based 3D globe onto which you can attach all manner of information."
From the GEOPortal.org website: "The GEOportal provides an entry point to access remote sensing, geospatial static and in-situ data, information and services."
Some more info here, otherwise, I admit I haven't found much details yet.
Technology: Update on ESA-FAO's GEOPortal
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Introduced last February, the EOPortal runs an article named the ESA-FAO GEOportal – Operational Gateway to GEOSS. From the article's introduction: "The GEOportal is one of the three candidates developed in response to a set of requirements from the GEO Secretariat aiming at the implementation of a GEO Web Portal serving the GEO User Community.
As part of the Initial Operational Capability of GEOSS, the GEOportal constitutes a main access point to worldwide information on Earth Observation capabilities and services including the ones proposed and implemented in the framework of GEO activities. The GEOportal includes a number of common functions and solutions to search and discover services and provides news and other relevant information to the GEOSS user community. The Community concept is extended to a global community and across all GEOSS users providing an entry point to the resources no matter where the user is located and no matter the nature of usage within the GEOSS areas of application." Some related stories copied below.
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