Spatial Data Infrastructures

Granell, Carlos; Gould, Michael; Manso, Miguel Ángel; Bernabé, Miguel Ángel

doi:10.4018/978-1-59140-995-3.ch005

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“…When coupled with the rapidly growing data holdings (for example, in national agencies), an environment is created where discovery access and use of data becomes increasingly difficult. As a result, an interest in interoperability has grown, and practitioners are increasingly looking to the web for help in data management and modeling, such that web-based data access and management is now common place (Granell et al 2009;Frehner and Brändli 2006). Much of the recent advances in this area have been precipitated by the more than a decade's interest in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI; Masser 2010), which has directly led to the development of pan-national standards such as INSPIRE in Europe (http:// inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu), and the construction of associated data networks, including those for hydrology and hydrogeology.…”

Section: Web-based Data Management and Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Groundwater Data Management

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Stenson

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Integrated Groundwater Management

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The goal of a data manager is to ensure that data is safely stored, adequately described, discoverable and easily accessible. However, to keep pace with the evolution of groundwater studies in the last decade, the associated data and data management requirements have changed significantly. In particular, there is a growing recognition that management questions cannot be adequately answered by single discipline studies. This has led a push towards the paradigm of integrated modeling, where diverse parts of the hydrological cycle and its human connections are included. This chapter describes groundwater data management practices, and reviews the current state of the art with enterprise groundwater database management systems. It also includes discussion on commonly used data management models, detailing typical data management lifecycles. We discuss the growing use of web services and open standards such as GWML and WaterML2.0 to exchange groundwater information and knowledge, and the need for national data networks. We also discuss crossjurisdictional interoperability issues, based on our experience sharing groundwater data across the US/Canadian border. Lastly, we present some future trends relating to groundwater data management.

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Section: Web-based Data Management and Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Groundwater Data Management

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Brodaric

Stenson

et al. 2016

Integrated Groundwater Management

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“…Geospatial web services allow client applications to discover, access, and visualize spatial data, an essential tenet in spatial data infrastructures [40,41]. Geospatial web services are the visible part of the GIS subsystem with respect to the front-end of the regional geoportal (i.e., user subsystem).…”

Section: Data Access and Retrieval: Geospatial Web Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual Architecture and Service-Oriented Implementation of a Regional Geoportal for Rice Monitoring

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Miralles

Rodríguez-Pupo

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Abstract:Agricultural monitoring has greatly benefited from the increased availability of a wide variety of remote-sensed satellite imagery, ground-sensed data (e.g., weather station networks) and crop models, delivering a wealth of actionable information to stakeholders to better streamline and improve agricultural practices. Nevertheless, as the degree of sophistication of agriculture monitoring systems increases, significant challenges arise due to the handling and integration of multi-scale data sources to present information to decision-makers in a way which is useful, understandable and user friendly. To address these issues, in this article we present the conceptual architecture and service-oriented implementation of a regional geoportal, specifically focused on rice crop monitoring in order to perform unified monitoring with a supporting system at regional scale. It is capable of storing, processing, managing, serving and visualizing monitoring and generated data products with different granularity and originating from different data sources. Specifically, we focus on data sources and data flow, and their importance for and in relation to different stakeholders. In the context of an EU-funded research project, we present an implementation of the regional geoportal for rice monitoring, which is currently in use in Europe's three largest rice-producing countries, Italy, Greece and Spain.

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“…Looking for the solution of these two needs, the term SDI is used to refer to the collection of technologies, policies, and institutional structures that facilitate the availability and access to the GI, offering the possibility of accessing "heterogeneous" spatial data distributed through this set of policies, common rules, and standards, facilitating interconnection of the spatial information in interoperable manner [15]. Implementation of an SDI project is materialized through a Geoportal that offers at least the following three services: visualization service (allows visualization of data through Web services and, optionally, an inquiry), location service (enables the search of data sets and services through the contents of their metadata), and catalogue service (allows location on a map through a geographical name).…”

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Geographic web services and tools as instruments for territorial management

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Currently, there are a large number of applications with Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities, supported by Web services and which contribute to geospatial information quality, prestige, and integrity. Likewise, a series of location-based services have been generated that have become a useful and indispensable instrument with great social content. All of these applications and services with GIS capabilities are increasingly present in the Web, looking to provide new services in real-time geographic information and becoming the central axis for public administrations that have the need to access, integrate, produce, and transmit sufficient geographic information as the main means when making decisions for successful management of their territories. With tools such as these, many public administrations are striving to offer a range of services through the so-called geoportals, thus, multiplying the possibilities of sharing, distributing, exchanging, and accessing geographically referenced information as a plausible instrument in processes of planning and management of their Territory.Keywords: Geospatial Information, GIS, Geo-referencing, Territorial Planning, Web Services, Geoportals, SDI, Geo-location, GPS ResumenActualmente, existe un gran número de aplicaciones con funcionalidades del Sistema de Información Geográfica (SIG), soportadas en los servicios Web y que aportan a la información geoespacial calidad, prestigio e integridad. Así mismo, se han generado una serie de servicios basados en localización que han llegado a convertirse en un instrumento útil e indispensable con gran contenido social. Todas estas aplicaciones y servicios con funcionalidades SIG están cada vez más presentes en la Web, buscando proveer nuevos servicios geográficos en tiempo real y convirtiéndose en el eje central las administraciones públicas que tienen la necesidad de acceder, integrar, producir y transmitir información geográfica suficiente, como principal medio al momento de tomar decisiones para una acertada gestión de sus territorios. Con herramientas como estas, muchas administraciones públicas se esfuerzan en ofrecer una serie de servicios a través de los llamados Geoportales, multiplicando así las posibilidades de compartir, distribuir, intercambiar y acceder a información geográficamente referenciada, como instrumento plausible en los procesos de planificación y gestión de sus territorios.

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Spatial Data Infrastructures

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Integrated Groundwater Data Management

Integrated Groundwater Data Management

Conceptual Architecture and Service-Oriented Implementation of a Regional Geoportal for Rice Monitoring

Geographic web services and tools as instruments for territorial management

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