The implementation of international geospatial standards for earthand space sciences

摘要

The Earth and Space Sciences Informatics division of European GeosciencesUnion (EGU) and the Open Geospatial Consortium jointly organised a specialevent entitled: 'Implementation of international geospatial standards for earthand space sciences event' – at the EGU General Assembly meeting held in Vienna,April 2009. The event objectives included: (a) to discuss the integration ofinformation systems from different geosciences disciplines; (b) to promote anddiscuss the present process to scale from specific and monolithic systems towardsindependent and modular enabling infrastructures – forming an earth systemscience (ESS) infrastructure; and (c) to show some of the latest advances inimplementing open standards. This manuscript introduces the event motivationsand describes the abstract and holistic framework, which can be used to situatethe topics and the developments presented by the event speakers. This manuscriptintroduces important, and relatively new technologies to build a multi-disciplin-ary geosciences information system: the System of Systems approach and theModel Driven Approach. To achieve that, three important information infra-structure categories are recognised: (a) ESS information infrastructure; (b)geospatial information infrastructure; at41 (c) distributed information infrastruc-ture. Digital Earth should support the discussed framework to accelerateinformation transfer from theoretical discussions to applications, in all fieldsrelated to global climate change, natural disaster prevention and response, newenergy-source development, agricultural and food security, and urban planningand management.