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Update on ESA-FAO's GEOPortal
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on Thursday April 17, @12:19PM
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from the geodata-discovery-with-vorpal-portal dept.
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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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Application Domains: GEOSS - The Need for Interoperability
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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."
Industry: Building a Geoportal with Open Source Software
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Late last December the Fuzzy Tolerance blog ran a nice demonstration of building a geoportal with open source software such as OpenLayers, TileCache, GeoServer, PostGIS, jQuery, REST and AJAX. Here's the resulting geospatial portal. From the blog: "From a developer’s perspective, the biggest advantages I’ve found with OpenLayers-Tilecache-jQuery-REST is speed and simplicity. The beta site went from an empty text file to release in only a few weeks of actual development time nestled in between other projects, with a lot of that taken up by a jQuery/OpenLayers/GeoServer/SLD learning curve, design, web service work, software setup, etc. It is also marvelously simple, being nothing more than Javascript and HTML. From an end-user perspective, you get a much more responsive application, a nicer map interface than I usually give people via OpenLayers, and everything is free and open source." I copied below some of the previous Slashgeo stories regarding the software used in the demonstration.
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.
Update on ESA-FAO's GEOPortal
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