An European Approach to GEOSS
Short Description
The EuroGEOSS project will demonstrate the added scientific value of making existing systems and applications interoperable and used within the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks. Focus will be on the application areas (Drought, Forest and Biodiversity), and the multi-disciplinary interoperability aspects to opening them up, linking them, and making them GEOSS components. Demonstration will be made that through this process increased access to new forms of data and services are enabled, and as a result new scientific questions can be addressed, or old questions can be addressed in new and better ways.
GEOTEC’s contribution
GEOTEC led the 'alternative discovery mechanism for geospatial resources' task of the EuroGEOSS project, which investigated new ways and implemented a brokered tool (called Web 2.0 Broker) to perform spatio-temporal queries over Web 2.0 resources and social network sites. GEOTEC coorganised and actively participated in the final EUROGEOSS conference to show the main results achieved over the course of the project.
Publications
Schill, Christian; Díaz-Sánchez, Laura; Perger, Christoph; Fritz, Steffen; McCallum, Ian; Nativi, Stefano; McInerney, Daniel; See, Linda; Craglia, Max Web 2 Tools to Improve Global Land Cover: Linking the EuroGEOSS Broker and Geo-Wiki Inproceedings In: Eurogeoss Conference. Madrid, 25-27 January 2012, 2012. @inproceedings{Schill2012, title = {Web 2 Tools to Improve Global Land Cover: Linking the EuroGEOSS Broker and Geo-Wiki}, author = {Christian Schill and Laura Díaz-Sánchez and Christoph Perger and Steffen Fritz and Ian McCallum and Stefano Nativi and Daniel McInerney and Linda See and Max Craglia}, year = {2012}, date = {2012-01-01}, booktitle = {Eurogeoss Conference. Madrid, 25-27 January 2012}, abstract = {The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to review hotspot maps of global land cover disagreement and determine, based on what they actually see in Google Earth and their local knowledge, if the land cover maps are correct or incorrect. Their input is recorded in a database, along with uploaded photos, to be used in the future for the creation of a new and improved global land cover map. It is illustrated how Web 2.0, search and access, functionalities which are part of the EUROGEOSS Discovery broker (e.g. search facilities for geo-referenced FLICKR pictures) can be linked to geo-wiki. Geospatial and temporal resources such as pictures, YouTube videos and additional geo-located social media can help to improve information available to validate current global land cover products. The quality of the information provided by volunteers as well as the quality of social media data in general is discussed.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to review hotspot maps of global land cover disagreement and determine, based on what they actually see in Google Earth and their local knowledge, if the land cover maps are correct or incorrect. Their input is recorded in a database, along with uploaded photos, to be used in the future for the creation of a new and improved global land cover map. It is illustrated how Web 2.0, search and access, functionalities which are part of the EUROGEOSS Discovery broker (e.g. search facilities for geo-referenced FLICKR pictures) can be linked to geo-wiki. Geospatial and temporal resources such as pictures, YouTube videos and additional geo-located social media can help to improve information available to validate current global land cover products. The quality of the information provided by volunteers as well as the quality of social media data in general is discussed. |
Coordinator
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Technical contact: Carlos Granell (carlos.granell@uji.es)