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Grid technology offers the prospect of enabling new kinds of applications and new ways of working in the area of Geographic Information Science. The most obvious application areas are in earth observation (EO), environmental monitoring, environmental modelling, visualisation and disaster management. Some of these grid enabled applications are not possible because of the limitations of existing Geographic Information Systems. Of the many converging technologies taking place, the integration of grid and web services is possibly the most significant. In the GIS world the trend towards the integration of grid and Open GIS Consortium (OGC) web services is particularly notable. EO datasets are very large and their use within a grid environment exploits a “traditional” strength of grid technology. The recognition that grid technologies are also particularly suitable where a rapid response is required has ramifications in the GIS world, eg, analysing distributed data in varied ways from multiple cooperating organisations in response to environmental crises.
| The programme coordinator is Chris Higgins of EDINA (Edinburgh). Details of the programme are currently being worked out. We invite contributions from participants, many of which will be for poster presentations. Offers of contributions should be given in the on-line registration form; see below. |  |
The primary aim of the workshop is to discuss how escience techniquies, in particular web and Grid services, can have an impact in GIS delivery. We antiticpate that part of the event will be spent in presentations of the technologies to the GIS community, with additional talks from members of the community who have already started to work with web services. The workshop will involve breakout groups for discussion on the issues raised.
| 9.15 | Registration |
| 9.45 | Welcome and introduction. Martin Keegan (NIEeS) and David Medyckyj-Scott (EDINA) |
| 10.10 | Introducing Grid and GIS asking “What are the big problems?”. Peter Fisher (Leicester) |
| 10.40 | Grid technologies and escience. Jonathan Giddy (Cardiff) |
| 11.10 | Coffee break |
| 11.35 | Some history of GIS and high performance computing. Mike Mineter (Edinburgh) |
| 12.05 | Recent developments in the area of Open GIS Consortium (OGC) services, Earth Observation and Grid. Allan Doyle (NASA) |
| 12.35 | GRID on-Demand. [ppt] Pedro Goncalves (European Space Agency) |
| 1.00 | Lunch, with demonstration by Laser-scan |
| 2.20 | Planned developments at the Ordnance Survey. Graham Vowles (Ordnance Survey) |
| 2.45 | NERC DataGrid: Raising the standards for earth science data. Bryan Lawrence (British Atmospheric Data Centre) |
| 3.10 | Breakout sessions |
| 4.10 | Tea/coffee break |
| 4.30 | Feedback from breakout sessions |
| 5.00 | Summary and conclusion |
| 7.00 | Reception in Robinson College |
| 7.30 | Workshop dinner |
| 9.30 | Background on the National eScience Centre and direction of eScience program. Dave Berry (National eScience Centre, Edinburgh) |
| 9.50 | The UK environmental escience programme. Martin Dove (NIEeS) |
| 10.10 | General discussion |
| 11.30 | Coffee and close of meeting |
The main meetings of the workshop, and lunches, will be held at in Pavillion A of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences Cambridge (main entrance shown in photograph below).
Details of the location of the meeting, including travel plans, can be obtained here.
Accommodation is being provided in Robinson College Cambridge; the conference dinner on the evening of 15th December will also be held in Robinson College. Accommodation for UK academics will be provided free of cost; for non-academic visitors the cost will be £58 per night.
A map showing the location of Robinson College can be obtained here, showing its location in relation to CMS where the meeting is to be held.
| This workshop has partly been sponsored by Laser-Scan. Based in Cambridge, who will be giving a demonstration during Monday’s lunch break, UK, Laser-Scan is a geospatial systems provider, drawing on thirty years of experience in the successful delivery of valuable operational solutions. The company’s focus and expertise lies in the processing and management of spatial data with a strong emphasis on data quality, integrity and accuracy. We deliver solutions that help organisations to gain the maximum value from their data. Laser-Scan’s specialist software tools simplify the management of spatial data and enable interoperable access. Laser-Scan is a member of the Open GIS Consortium and has contributed to a number of initiatives aimed at improving interoperability, most recently in collaboration with Autodesk, Intergraph and MapInfo.
Laser-Scan Laser-scan will demonstrate some of their products during the lunch break. |
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For information about registration, and all other types of queries, please contact the NIEeS office in the first instance.
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