GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI-Symposium, 23..5.2011: Bad Schandau (SAX) [ 11. Sächsisches GIS-Forum ] 24.5.2011: Decin (CZE) [ 1. Bohemian#Saxonian GIS-Forum ]

1. ENVIROGRIDS TOWARDS "BLACKSEA"
CACHMENT REGIONS – CROSS-BORDER SDI FOR
WATER AND LAND MANAGEMENT
Karel Charvat, Premysl Vohnout
Czech Centre for Science and Society– Praha
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2. Objectives
• The scientific aim of the EnviroGRIDS project is to assemble
an observation system of the Black Sea catchment that will
address several GEO Societal Benefit Areas within a
changing climate framework. This system will incorporate a
shared information system that operates on the boundary
of scientific/technical partners, stakeholders and the
public. It will contain an early warning system able to
inform in advance decision-makers and the public about
risks to human health, biodiversity and ecosystems
integrity, agriculture production or energy supply caused
by climatic, demographic and land cover changes on a 50-
year time horizon.
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3. Beyond state-of-the-art:
• EnviroGRIDS is clearly going beyond the state
of the art in the Black Sea region by adopting
a catchment approach and by tackling several
societal benefits areas together. By using the
most powerful computer network of the
world it is clearly showing the direction on
how to analyse the increasing amount of
global data made available throughout the
planet.
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4. Beyond state-of-the-art:
• It is bringing crucial information in a relatively
data-poor region on future scenarios of
expected climate, demographic and land
cover changes. Based on the outputs of these
scenarios it is building geoprocessing services
in key societal benefits areas that will be
connected back to the GEOSS.
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5. Key technological task
• How SDI and Grid could be interlinked
• To be able to use advantage of powerful
computation capacities of GRID
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6. Key technological task
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7. Key technological task
SDI GRID
EG one access portal
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BASHYT URM
ICPDR …
Other?
WxS
….
WxS
gSWAT
UNIGE
CCSS?
SWATSL?
SWAT gSWAT
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8. AnviroGrids components
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9. SWAT
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10. gLite’s main components
• User Interface (UI): The place where users
logon to the Grid
• Resource Broker (RB) (Workload
Management System (WMS): Matches the
user requirements with the available
resources on the Grid
• Information System: Characteristics and
status of CE and SE
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11. gLite’s main components
• File and replica catalog: Location of grid files
and grid file replicas
• Logging and Bookkeeping (LB): Log
information of jobs
• Computing Element (CE): A batch queue on a
site’s computers where the user’s job is
executed
• Storage Element (SE): provides (large-scale)
storage for files
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12. EnviroGrids Geoportal
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13. EnviroGrids Geoportal
• Platform, where EnviroGrids partners share
their metadata and data
• Central access point for EnviroGrids SDI
infrastructure
• Based on principles of Uniform Resource
Management and Geoportal4everybody
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14. URM principle
• The objective of URM is design and
implements such methods and tools, which
will support context awareness sharing of
heterogeneous knowledge in distributed
environments (data and metadata are stored
on many different server).
• URM has to guarantee not only pure access to
data, but their relation with tools for their
visualization and analysis
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15. Contacts
Websites
www.envirogrids.cz, wwwenvirogrids.net
Contact persons
Karel Charvat charvat@ccss.cz
Premysl Vohnout vohnout@ccss.cz
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