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CGS Initiative: The Persistent Test Bed (PTB) To facilitate research into geospatial interoperability and web-based GIS, a project to establish a persistent testbed for geospatial research and teaching has been commissioned by EuroSDR, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE). Historically, GIS have been standalone desktop applications. The emergence of open web mapping APIs such as OpenLayers, Virtual Earth and Google Maps has enabled the embedding of geospatial capability into websites and portals. At the same time that web mapping has become popular, the geospatial community has developed specifications that make it possible to manage, process, and disseminate geospatial data on the web. However, as an emerging technology, web-based GIS does not currently address all the requirements fulfilled by desktop GIS - particularly in terms of secure data access and management of very large data sets. Hence, the key objectives of the Permanant Test Bed project are:
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To act as a research test-bed for collaborative European research in geospatial interoperability.
Four use-cases have been designed by members of the testbed project. The use-cases cover a variety of thematic applications including unified portrayal, schematization and semantics for service discovery. This initiative is led at CGS by Dr. Jerry Swan and Prof. Mike Jackson. |
Research Areas: • Geoinformatics & Data Modelling • Geospatial Intelligence • Interoperability & Standards • Location Based Services • Semantics & Reasoning CGS Initiatives: • The Persistent Test Bed • Geospatial Learning Initiative • Reality Markup Project Funded Projects: • GIS4EU • D-scent • Map Schematization • OS "Future Data" • Disaster Management • GIGAS Interoperability • The e-soter Platform • SWIMA • Eye Tracking |
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