Standard-Based Data and Information Systems for Earth Observation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Standards-Based Data and Information Systems for Earth Observations – An Introduction

   • Liping Di, H. K. Ramapriyan

   Pages 1-6

3. Use of NWGISS to Implement a Data Node in China’s Spatial Information Grid

   • Dengrong Zhang, Le Yu, Liping Di

   Pages 7-25

4. Data Integration Support to the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period Project (CEOP)

   • Kenneth R. McDonald, Yonsook Enloe, Liping Di, Daniel Holloway

   Pages 27-36

5. Progress in OGC Web Services Interoperability Development

   • George Percivall

   Pages 37-61

6. Evolution of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Information System (EOSDIS)

   • Hampapuram K. Ramapriyan, Jeanne Behnke, Edwin Sofinowski, Dawn Lowe, Mary Ann Esfandiari

   Pages 63-92

7. SCOOP Data Management: A Standards-Based Distributed Information System for Coastal Data Management

   • Helen Conover, Marilyn Drewry, Sara Graves, Ken Keiser, Manil Maskey, Matt Smith et al.

   Pages 93-111

8. A New Approach to Preservation Metadata for Scientific Data – A Real World Example

   • Ruth Duerr, Ron Weaver, Mark A. Parsons

   Pages 113-125

9. Archive Standards: How Their Adoption Benefit Archive Systems

   • Robert H. Rank, Constantino Cremidis, Kenneth R. McDonald

   Pages 127-142

10. An Association Rule Discovery System Applied to Geographic Data

    • Laura C. Rodman, John Jackson, Ross K. Meentemeyer

    Pages 143-164

11. An Intelligent Archive Testbed Incorporating Data Mining

    • H.K. Ramapriyan, D. Isaac, W. Yang, B. Bonnlander, D. Danks

    Pages 165-188

12. Semantic Augmentations to an ebRIM Profile of Catalogue Service for the Web

    • Peng Yue, Liping Di, Peisheng Zhao, Wenli Yang, Genong Yu, Yaxing Wei

    Pages 189-208

13. Geospatial Knowledge Discovery Using Semantic Web Services

    • Peisheng Zhao, Liping Di

    Pages 209-226

14. Accelerating Technology Adoption Through Community Endorsement

    • Richard E. Ullman, Yonsook Enloe

    Pages 227-248

CEOS was established under the auspices of the Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations in 1984 in response to a recommendation from a panel of experts in remote sensing within the Working Group on Growth, Technology and Employment (CEOS, 2009). The panel recognized the collective value of the world’s Earth remote sensing capabilities and the advantages that would be gained by the coordination of civil Earth observing satellite missions. By cooperating in mission planning and the development of compatible data products, applications, services and policies, the national space programs would maximize the bene?ts of their individual inve- ments and be able to better address the environmental challenges of the entire international community. CEOS was to serve as the focal point for this inter- tional coordination and to provide the forum for the change of policy and technical information. The members of CEOS are governmental organizations that are international or national in nature and are responsible for a civil space-borne Earth observation program that is currently in operation or in an advanced stage of system devel- ment. CEOS also has established Associate Members that are similar governmental organizations with a civil space-segment activity in an early stage of system dev- opment or those with a signi?cant ground-segment activity that supports CEOS objectives. Associate Members may also be existing satellite coordination group and scienti?c or governmental bodies that are international in nature and have a signi?cant programmatic activity that likewise is aligned with the goals of CEOS.

• Earth Observing System
• Geoinformationssysteme
• geographic data
• geospatial
• spatial data infrastructure

From the reviews: “Book contains an excellent overview of U.S. earth imaging programs and services … . It provides an excellent overview of current standards based developments in earth observation. … This work will provide insight into many products and services that have only recently become available to the general public and scientists, that include vast quanitities of highly valuable and useful earth observation data.” (Jeff Thurston, Vector 1 Media, April, 2010)

• Science & System (CSISS), Center for Spatial Information, Greenbelt, U.S.A.

  Liping Di, H. K. Ramapriyan

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