Distributed Data Integration Services Provided by the WGISS Test Facility for CEOP

Integration of distributed data sources for mobile services

This paper deals with the Personalised Access to Local Information and services for tOurists (PALIO-IST 20656) Project within the fifth research framework of the European Commission. The focus is on tourists that need to access information on the city or on the region they are visiting by means of a cellular phone or at specific locations (kiosks). The PALIO project is committed to produce a pr...

Design of Data Server for Ceop Data

On the CEOP (Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period) project, in order to improve our understanding of water and energy and fluxes and reservoirs over land areas, large amount of data are being collected and archived. In this paper, we explain the design of the data archiving and analysis server for the CEOP data at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, which we are now construct...

Services for data integration

The fact that many decisions need a combination of information sources makes easy integration of geospatial data an important data usability issue. Our vision is to achieve automated just-in-time integration. As a foundation, we present a system architecture with distributed data and services. Existing and evolving standards and technologies fitting into this architecture are presented along wi...

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Ecosystem services provided by waterbirds.

Ecosystem services are ecosystem processes that directly or indirectly benefit human well-being. There has been much recent literature identifying different services and the communities and species that provide them. This is a vital first step towards management and maintenance of these services. In this review, we specifically address the waterbirds, which play key functional roles in many aqu...