The hypermap concept was introduced in 1992 as a way to hyperlink geospatial features to text,multimedia or other geospatial features.Since then,the concept has been used in several applications,although it has been f...
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The hypermap concept was introduced in 1992 as a way to hyperlink geospatial features to text,multimedia or other geospatial features.Since then,the concept has been used in several applications,although it has been found to have some limitations.On the other hand,Spatial Data Infrastructures(SDIs)adopt diverse and heterogeneous service oriented architectures(SOAs).They are developed by different standard bodies and are generally disconnected from mass market web solutions.This work expands the hypermap concept to overcome its limitations and harmonise it with geospatial resource oriented architecture(ROA),connecting it to the semantic web and generalising it to the World Wide Hypermap(WWH)as a tool for building a single‘Digital Earth’.Global identifiers,dynamic links,link purposes and resource management capabilities are introduced as a solution that orchestrates data,metadata and data access services in a homogeneous way.This is achieved by providing a set of rules using the current Internet paradigm formalised in the REpresentational State Transfer(REST)architecture and combining it with existing Open Geospatial Consortium(OGC)and International Organization for Standardization(ISO)standards.A reference implementation is also presented and the strategies needed to implement the WWH,which mainly consist in a set of additions to current Geographic Information System(GIS)products and a RESTful server that mediates between the Internet and the local GIS applications.
When defining indicators on the environment,the use of existing initiatives should be a priority rather than redefining indicators each time.From an Information,Communication and Technology perspective,data interopera...
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When defining indicators on the environment,the use of existing initiatives should be a priority rather than redefining indicators each time.From an Information,Communication and Technology perspective,data interoperability and standardization are critical to improve data access and exchange as promoted by the Group on Earth Observations.GEOEssential is following an end-user driven approach by defining Essential Variables(EVs),as an intermediate value between environmental policy indicators and their appropriate data sources.From international to local scales,environmental policies and indicators are increasingly percolating down from the global to the local agendas.The scientific business processes for the generation of EVs and related indicators can be formalized in workflows specifying the necessary logical steps.To this aim,GEOEssential is developing a Virtual Laboratory the main objective of which is to instantiate conceptual workflows,which are stored in a dedicated knowledge base,generating executable workflows.To interpret and present the relevant outputs/results carried out by the different thematic workflows considered in GEOEssential(i.***.biodiversity,ecosystems,extractives,night light,and food-water-energy nexus),a Dashboard is built as a visual front-end.This is a valuable instrument to track progresses towards environmental policies.
There is a growing recognition of the interdependencies among the supply systems that rely upon food,water and energy.Billions of people lack safe and sufficient access to these systems,coupled with a rapidly growing ...
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There is a growing recognition of the interdependencies among the supply systems that rely upon food,water and energy.Billions of people lack safe and sufficient access to these systems,coupled with a rapidly growing global demand and increasing resource constraints.Modeling frameworks are considered one of the few means available to understand the complex interrelationships among the sectors,however development of nexus related frameworks has been limited.We describe three opensource models well known in their respective domains(i.e.TerrSysMP,WOFOST and SWAT)where components of each if combined could help decision-makers address the nexus issue.We propose as a first step the development of simple workflows utilizing essential variables and addressing components of the above-mentioned models which can act as building-blocks to be used ultimately in a comprehensive nexus model framework.The outputs of the workflows and the model framework are designed to address the SDGs.
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