Geoinformatics

Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences
Herausgeber: Keller, G Randy; Baru, Chaitanya

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents case studies from across the geosciences to provide a fascinating and accessible introduction to this emerging field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Rcog)
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 180mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9780521897150
• ISBN-10: 0521897157
• Artikelnr.: 32560452

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: 1. Science needs and
challenges for geoinformatics G. Randy Keller; 2. Introduction to IT
concepts and challenges Chaitanya Baru; Part I. Case Studies from Other
Disciplines: 3. Semantic cyberinfrastructure: the virtual solar-terrestrial
observatory Peter Fox and Deborah L. McGuinness; 4. Cyberinfrastructures
for life sciences and biomedicine Sriram Krishnan and Ravi Madduri; Part
II. Modeling Software and Community Codes: 5. Development, verification and
maintenance of computational software in geodynamics Michael Gurnis, Walter
Landry, Eh Tan, Luis Armendariz, Leif Strand and Michael Aivazis; 6.
Parallel finite element modeling of multi-timescale faulting and
lithospheric deformation in the western US Mian Liu, Youqing Yang, Qingsong
Li, Gang Luo and Huai Zhang; 7. 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; Part III. Visualization and Data
Representation: 8. Visualization of seismic model data Amit Chourasia; 9.
The UNAVCO GEON Integrated Data Viewer for exploration, analysis, and
integration of geoscience data Stuart Wier and Charles Meertens; Part IV.
Knowledge Management and Data Integration: 10. Data and tools for geologic
timelines and timescales Peter Sadler and Cinzia Cervato; 11. Modeling
geodynamic processes with ontologies Hassan Babaie; Part V. Web Services
and Scientific Workflows: 12. Service orientation in the design of a
community hydrologic information system Ilya Zaslavsky and David Maidment;
13. Web services for seismic data archives Robert Casey and Timothy Ahern;
14. 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; 15. Scientific workflows for the geosciences: an
emerging approach to building integrated data analysis systems Ilkay
Altintas, Daniel Crawl and Christopher Crosby; 16. Online access and
processing of Lidar topography data Christopher Crosby, J. Ramon
Arrowsmith, Viswanath Nandigam and Chaitanya Baru; 17. Use of abstraction
to support geoscientists' understanding and production of scientific
artifacts Ann Gates, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Leonardo Salayandia, Omar
Ochoa, Aida Gandara and Nicholas Del Rio; Part VI. Emerging International
and Other Efforts: 18. It's not your data, it's everyone's: the benefits of
a corporate approach to scientific information Ian Jackson and Richard
Hughes; 19. TOPO-EUROPE and cyberinfrastructure: quantifying coupled deep
earth-surface processes in 4D Sierd Cloetingh and H. P. Bunge; 20.
OneGeology - from concept to global project Ian Jackson; 21. Geoinformatics
developments in Germany Jens Klump, Joachim Wächter, Peter Löwe, Ralf Bill
and Matthias Lendholt; 22. iGEON: networking the Indian geosciences
community through GEON K. V. Subbarao, Arun Agarwal, Rajeev Wankar and
Chaitanya Baru; 23. Geoinformatics in the public service: building a
cyberinfrastructure across the geological surveys M. Lee Allison, Linda C.
Gundersen and Stephen M. Richard; 24. Application of the U.S. geoscience
information network to deploying a national geothermal data system Stephen
M. Richard, Ryan Clark and Wolfgang Grunberg; Index.