CoastGIS’99: geomatics and coastal environment
informatics equipment are duplicated at the users’ sites. Commercial
and non-commercial data providers can increase distribution and use
of their information, leading to a much better return on investment made
for the collection of the information, promoting the development of
applications.
The main design features of Desima include:
- Many to many” relationships between/among data, tools, users, e.g.
various data, various users, remote access, heterogeneity;
- a fully distributed and interoperable system;
- real time operations, e.g. processing on demand, true added value data
distribution;
- information resources can be local or a remote archive and repository;
- flexibility, offering the ability to evolve (accommodating new data,
new data types, new models, etc.);
- an open system, offering remote processing and remote catalogue
services.
To meet these requirements, Object Oriented (OO) technology was
selected as a basis for the design, which enforces modularity that
promotes software re-use and ensures the ability to evolve.
Thetis Project - Design of a data repositories collection
and data visualization system for Coastal Zone Management
of the Mediterranean Sea
Thetis is a 30-month project, with a total budget of nearly 2.5 million Euro, which began in July 1997 with partial funding from the Telematics Applications Programme of the European Union’s Fourth RTD
Framework Programme. Ten partners from four EU member States are
involved, as are the MIT Ocean Engineering Department (Cambridge, MA,
USA) and the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (USA).
The Thetis system addresses the frequent requirement of scientists,
engineers and decision-makers to access, process and subsequently
visualize data held at different locations and collected and stored in
different formats. Tools are needed that enable the integration of such
data, along with their associated data models, interpretation models,
and visualization environments. Because of its heavy focus on the Internet and Web-related technologies, the following paragraphs describe
the Thetis system in some detail.
The objective of the Thetis project is to build an advanced integrated
interoperable system for transparent access and visualization of data
repositories, via the Internet and the Web. The system will be a working
prototype, demonstrating its ability to respond to assist users of scientific
information for decision-making purposes.
Vast amounts of information exist, collected and processed over many
years at different research institutions. The data collections are stored
in various databases, files, spreadsheets, or are generated by sophisticated data simulation models, and data processing techniques. These
data collections comprise numeric data, images, text documents, audio
38
informatics equipment are duplicated at the users’ sites. Commercial
and non-commercial data providers can increase distribution and use
of their information, leading to a much better return on investment made
for the collection of the information, promoting the development of
applications.
The main design features of Desima include:
- Many to many” relationships between/among data, tools, users, e.g.
various data, various users, remote access, heterogeneity;
- a fully distributed and interoperable system;
- real time operations, e.g. processing on demand, true added value data
distribution;
- information resources can be local or a remote archive and repository;
- flexibility, offering the ability to evolve (accommodating new data,
new data types, new models, etc.);
- an open system, offering remote processing and remote catalogue
services.
To meet these requirements, Object Oriented (OO) technology was
selected as a basis for the design, which enforces modularity that
promotes software re-use and ensures the ability to evolve.
Thetis Project - Design of a data repositories collection
and data visualization system for Coastal Zone Management
of the Mediterranean Sea
Thetis is a 30-month project, with a total budget of nearly 2.5 million Euro, which began in July 1997 with partial funding from the Telematics Applications Programme of the European Union’s Fourth RTD
Framework Programme. Ten partners from four EU member States are
involved, as are the MIT Ocean Engineering Department (Cambridge, MA,
USA) and the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (USA).
The Thetis system addresses the frequent requirement of scientists,
engineers and decision-makers to access, process and subsequently
visualize data held at different locations and collected and stored in
different formats. Tools are needed that enable the integration of such
data, along with their associated data models, interpretation models,
and visualization environments. Because of its heavy focus on the Internet and Web-related technologies, the following paragraphs describe
the Thetis system in some detail.
The objective of the Thetis project is to build an advanced integrated
interoperable system for transparent access and visualization of data
repositories, via the Internet and the Web. The system will be a working
prototype, demonstrating its ability to respond to assist users of scientific
information for decision-making purposes.
Vast amounts of information exist, collected and processed over many
years at different research institutions. The data collections are stored
in various databases, files, spreadsheets, or are generated by sophisticated data simulation models, and data processing techniques. These
data collections comprise numeric data, images, text documents, audio
38