Standards-Based Data and Information Systems for Earth Observations -- An Introduction -- Use of NWGISS to Implement a Data Node in China's Spatial Information Grid -- Data Integration Support to the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period Project (CEOP) -- Progress in OGC Web Services Interoperability Development -- Evolution of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Information System (EOSDIS) -- SCOOP Data Management: A Standards-Based Distributed Information System for Coastal Data Management -- A New Approach to Preservation Metadata for Scientific Data -- A Real World Example -- Archive Standards: How Their Adoption Benefit Archive Systems -- An Association Rule Discovery System Applied to Geographic Data -- An Intelligent Archive Testbed Incorporating Data Mining -- Semantic Augmentations to an ebRIM Profile of Catalogue Service for the Web -- Geospatial Knowledge Discovery Using Semantic Web Services -- Accelerating Technology Adoption Through Community Endorsement
Summary
Documents developments in standard-based systems for processing, archiving, managing and distributing Earth Observation data and derived information products. This book presents standards efforts that influence how these data and information systems operate. It discusses some developments in geospatial knowledge systems
