HR: 10:20h
AN: IN32A-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Enabling Discoveries in Earth Sciences Through the Geosciences Network (GEON)
AU: * Seber, D
EM: seber@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505, La Jolla, CA 92093 United States
AU: Baru, C
EM: baru@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505, La Jolla, CA 92093 United States
AU: Memon, A
EM: amemon@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505, La Jolla, CA 92093 United States
AU: Lin, K
EM: klin@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505, La Jolla, CA 92093 United States
AU: Youn, C
EM: cyoun@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505, La Jolla, CA 92093 United States
AB: Taking advantage of the state-of-the-art information technology resources GEON researchers are building a cyberinfrastructure designed to enable data sharing, semantic data integration, high-end computations and 4D visualization in easy-to-use web-based environments. The GEON Network currently allows users to search and register Earth science resources such as data sets (GIS layers, GMT files, geoTIFF images, ASCII files, relational databases etc), software applications or ontologies. Portal based access mechanisms enable developers to built dynamic user interfaces to conduct advanced processing and modeling efforts across distributed computers and supercomputers. Researchers and educators can access the networked resources through the GEON portal and its portlets that were developed to conduct better and more comprehensive science and educational studies. For example, the SYNSEIS portlet in GEON enables users to access in near-real time seismic waveforms from the IRIS Data Management Center, easily build a 3D geologic model within the area of the seismic station(s) and the epicenter and perform a 3D synthetic seismogram analysis to understand the lithospheric structure and earthquake source parameters for any given earthquake in the US. Similarly, GEON's workbench area enables users to create their own work environment and copy, visualize and analyze any data sets within the network, and create subsets of the data sets for their own purposes. Since all these resources are built as part of a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), they are also used in other development platforms. One such platform is Kepler Workflow system which can access web service based resources and provides users with graphical programming interfaces to build a model to conduct computations and/or visualization efforts using the networked resources. Developments in the area of semantic integration of the networked datasets continue to advance and prototype studies can be accessed via the GEON portal at www.geongrid.org
UR: http://www.geongrid.org/
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005