Overview of ESPRIT Projects

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Overview of ESPRIT GIS Projects
EC-GIS Workshop GIS OF TOMORROW
Peckham, R. J. Guimarães Pereira, Â.
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STRESA, ITALY 28th - 30th JUNE 1999
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What...
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Overview about WHAT...
finished after December 1996
17 ESPRIT GIS projects
Handbook of GIS Project Summaries. 1997. DG III
JRC initiative.

• Handbook of GIS Project Summaries
• The Projects Web Sites
• Direct contact with Project responsible

Sources of Information

• Areas Covered by the Projects
• Aims and Technologies Used
• Adoption and implementation of Standards
• Innovation Content
• Uptake Impact on Competitiveness of European
  Industry

Scope of the Overview
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ESPRIT GIS Projects
AGENT
MAP DESIGN SOFTWARE
Automated Generalisation New Technology
Best Practice in Software Engineering and
methodologies for Developing GIS Applications
BEST-GIS
USER INTERFACE DESIGN
Co-operative Multidimensional Multimedia
Topological Elements Reintegration
COMMUTER
MAINTENANCE OF SPATIAL DATABASES
Distributed Geographical Information Systems -
Models Methods Tools and Frameworks
DISGIS
DISTRIBUTED GIS
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ESPRIT GIS Projects
GEIXS
Geological Electronic Information Exchange System
GEO-SCIENTIFIC METADATA-B.
GIS Interoperability Project Stimulating the
Industry in Europe
GIPSIE
OPEN GIS C. DIFFUSION
GEOMIST
Geological and Mining Information System on the
Iberian Pyrite Belt
GEOLOGICAL INFO. SYSTEM TO MINING COMP.s
Multimedia based Access to Online Cartographic
Information
GEONET4D
MULTIMEDIA ACCESS TO ONLINE CARTOGRAPHY
Corporation Integrated Intelligent Multimedia
Assistant for Field Operators
INTFO
MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION FOR FIELD OPERATIONS
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ESPRIT GIS Projects
Interactive Satellite Image Server on Generation
Image Coding
ISIS
ACCESS TO EARTH OBSERVATION INFO.
MARKSERV
SERVICES TO ASSIST GEO-MARKETING
Marketing Server Upon INTERNET/ INTRANET
Multispectral and Multitemporal Image Processing
on Parallel Systems
MMIPPS
IMAGE PROCESSING THROUGH NET PARALLEL PROCESSING
OBOE
DEMONSTRATION OF THE BUSINESS OBJECT FACILITY
Open Business Object Environment
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ESPRIT GIS Projects
Object Oriented Methods and Development
Environment for Geo-science Applications
OMEGA
EXTENSION OF SW TO ENCOURAGE DISTRIBUTED
GEOSCIENCE APPLICATIONS
PARSAR
Parallelisation of the Chirp Scaling Algorithm
SAR Processor
IMAGE PROCESSING ENHANCEMENT FROM SAR
Uncertainty Knowledge Maintenance and Revision in
Geographic Information Systems
TO IMPROVE HANDLING OF TIME UNCERTAINTY
REVIGIS
Temporal Object Oriented Databases within
Information Systems
TOOBIS
TEMPORAL OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
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Areas Covered

• AGENT
• COMMUTER, GEONET4D, INTFO
• DISGIS, COMMUTER, INTFO
• GEIXS, GEOMIST, GEONET4D, OMEGA
• GIPSIE, COMMUTER, DISGIS, GEOMIST
• ISIS, MARKSERV, GEOMIST
• MMIPPS, PARSAR
• REVIGIS
• TOOBIS, GEONET4D
• BEST-GIS
• BEST-GIS, GIPSIE
• COMMUTER, REVIGIS
• DISGIS, GEIXS, GEOMIST, GEONET4D, OMEGA
• GEIXS, GEOMIST, OMEGA
• MMIPPS, MARKSERV
• BEST-GIS, GEONET4D

GENERALISATION MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTED
SYSTEMS GEO-SCIENCES INFO. INTEROPERABILITY DATA
SERVERS IMAGE PROCESSING UNCERTAINTY TIME BEST
PRACTICE NETWORKING (PEOPLE) UPDATE
MANAGEMENT DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 3D HIGH-PERF.
COMP. NETWORKS USER INTERFACE DESIGN
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Technologies Deployed
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• Distributed Architectures
• Object-oriented paradigm languages
• Object-oriented DB
• Mathematical Modelling
• Parallel Processing
• Multi-media
• 3D Modelling and Visualisation
• Artificial Intelligence

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The dominant hardware platforms and OS are PCs
operating WINDOWS 9X, NT and UNIX Workstations
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Adoption and Implementation of Standards
CEN TC287, ISO-DIS 10746, ISO 15046, EN 287009,
ODP, etc...
TCP/IP, HTTP, CORBA, etc...
C, JAVA, SQL, etc...
ESRI Shape Files, Autocad DXF, etc...
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Adoption and Implementation of Standards

• BEST-GIS
• COMMUTER
• DISGIS
• GEIXS
• GIPSIE
• GEOMIST
• OMEGA

• AGENT
• GEIXS
• GEOMIST
• GEONET4D
• INTFO
• ISIS
• MARKSERV
• OBOE
• PARSAR
• REVIGIS
• TOOBIS

GI standards
MAJORITY OF PROJECTS USED, DEVELOPED OR PROMOTED
STANDARDS THE WAY AHEAD TO INTEROPERABILITY!
Programming standards

• GEIXS
• GEOMIST
• GEONET4D
• ISIS
• MARKSERV
• OBOE
• OMEGA

• BEST-GIS
• GEIXS
• GEONET4D
• MARKSERV
• MMIPPS
• OBOE
• REVIGIS
• TOOBIS

Network standards
Other IT standards
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Innovation Content
GIPSIE...
DISGIS, GEIXS...
GEONET4D...
AGENT...
REVIGIS...
MMIPPS...
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Uptake Impact on Competitiveness of European
Industry

• Commercial success
• Diffusion into other regions
• Adoption in other fields
• Recognition by the GI community
• Good Impact on Competitiveness of European
  Industry

AGENT, DISGIS, GEONET4D
COMMUTER, GEIXS, GEOMIST
GEONET4D
BEST-GIS
difficult to assess in quantitative terms...
DISGIS, GEIXS, etc...
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What Could be Missing...
Quality Assurance of Project Developments

• Validation Process
• Fine-Tuning Customisation

INVOLVE POTENTIAL USER COMMUNITIES
Enhance Quality, Uptake
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What Could be Missing...
Based on the documents Strategic View of GIS
Research and Technology Development for Europe,
1st and 2nd editions, GI2000

• Data Modelling
• Mechanisms to Assure Data Quality and Integrity
• Quality Assurance by Integration of Potential
  Users
• Spatial Analysis for Decision Support
• Developments in other thematic areas (facility
  management, risk emergency management, etc...)
• Interoperability through a Virtual Lab

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Conclusions