HR: 1340h
AN: IN13A-0894    [Abstracts]
TI: Features and Futures of Scientific GIS
AU: * Kopp, S
EM: skopp@esri.com
AF: Stephen Kopp, ESRI 380 New York St, Redlands, ca 92373,
AU: Raskin, R
EM: raskin@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Robert Raskin, Jet Propulsion Lab 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, ca 91109,
AB: The early days of GIS were heavily influenced by the requirements of the Earth science community and solving Earth science problems. The requirements and capabilities of GIS software continue to evolve in step with trends of the computing industry. This paper will focus on industry trends and capabilities of GIS as a scientific tool for scientific analysis. Some of these capabilities include support of science data format of higher dimensionality, including 3D, time, and other possible dimensions, not just for visualization, but also query and analysis. This includes support for 3D dimensional analytical operators. Inherent support for time as a dimension, coordinate, or variable, with supported in both visualization and analysis. As well as acustomization framework that allows scientists to easily integrate their own analytical models, tools, and data formats.
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 0545 Modeling (4255)
DE: 3315 Data assimilation
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting