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Geoinformatics : cyberinfrastructure for the solid Earth sciences / edited by G. Randy Keller, Chaitanya Baru

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)ISBN:
  • 9780511976308
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780521897150. | Erscheint auch als: 9780521897150 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 550.285574 22
LOC classification:
  • QE48.87
DOI: DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511976308Online resources: Summary: Advanced information technology infrastructure is increasingly being employed in the Earth sciences to provide researchers with efficient access to massive central databases and to integrate diversely formatted information from a variety of sources. These geoinformatics initiatives enable manipulation, modeling and visualization of data in a consistent way, and are helping to develop integrated Earth models at various scales, and from the near surface to the deep interior. This book uses a series of case studies to demonstrate computer and database use across the geosciences. Chapters are thematically grouped into sections that cover data collection and management; modeling and community computational codes; visualization and data representation; knowledge management and data integration; and web services and scientific workflows. Geoinformatics is a fascinating and accessible introduction to this emerging field for readers across the solid Earth sciences and an invaluable reference for researchers interested in initiating new cyberinfrastructure projects of their ownSummary: Science needs and challenges for geoinformatics / G. Randy Keller -- Introduction to IT concepts and challenges / Chaitanya Baru -- Semantic cyberinfrastructure : the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory / Peter Fox, Deborah L. McGuinnes, and the VSTO Team -- Cyberinfrastructures for life sciences and biomedicine / Sriram Krishnan and Ravi Madduri -- Development, verification, and maintenance of computational software in geodynamics / Michael Gurnis, Walter Landry, EH Tax, Luis Armendariz, Leif Strand, and Michael Aivazis -- Parallel finite element modeling of multi-timescale faulting and lithosphere deformation in western USA / Mian Liu, Youqing Yang, Qingsong Li, Gang Luo, and Huai Zhang -- Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates / James A. Boyden, R. Dietmar Müller, Michael Gurnis, Trond H. Torsvik, James A. Clark, Mark Turner, Hamish Ivey-Law, Robin J. Watson, and John S. Cannon -- Visualization of seismic model data / Amit Chourasia -- The UNAVCO GEON Integrated Data Viewer for exploration, analysis, and integration of geoscience data / Stuart Wier and Charles Meertens -- Data and tools for geologic timelines and timescales / Peter M. Sadler and Cinzia Cervato -- Modeling geodynamic processes with ontologies / Hassan A. Babaie -- Service orientation in the design of a community hydrologic information system / Ilya Zaslavsky and David R. Maidment -- Web services for seismic data archives / Robert Casey and Timothy K. Ahern -- Development of robust data system for gravity and magnetic anomaly data : a case study of a community-based effort for point data / Raed Aldouri and G. Randy Keller -- Scientific workflows for the geosciences : an emerging approach to building integrated data analysis systems / Ilkay Altintas, Daniel Crawl, Christopher J. Crosby, and Peter Cornillon -- Online access and processing of LiDAR topography data / Christopher J. Crosby, J. Ramón Arrowsmith, Viswanath Nandigam, and Chaitanya Baru -- Use of abstraction to support geoscientists' understanding and production of scientific artifacts / Ann Q. Gates, Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva, Leonardo Salayandia, Omar Ochoa, Aida Gandara, and Nicholas Del Rio -- It's not your date, it's everyone's : the benefits of a corporate approach to scientific information / Ian Jackson and Richard Hughes -- TOPO-EUROPE and cyberinfrastructure : quantifying coupled deep earth -- surface processes in 4-D / S.A.P.L. Cloetingh, H.P. Bunge, and the TOPO-EUROPE Working Grou -- OneGeology -- from concept to global project / Ian Jackson -- Geoinformatics developments in Germany / Jens Klump, Joachim Wächter, Peter Löwe, Ralf Bill, and Matthias Lendholt -- iGEON : networking the Indian geosciences community through GEON / K.V. Subbarao, Arun Agarwal, Rajeev Wankar, and Chaitanya Baru -- Geoinformatics in the public service : building a cyberinfrastructure across the geological surveys / M. Lee Allison, Linda C. Gundersen, and Stephen M. Richard -- Application of the US Geoscience Information Network to deploying a national geothermal data system / Stephen M. Richard, Ryan Clark, and Wolfgang GrunbergPPN: PPN: 883448831Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-20-CTM | ZDB-20-CBO
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