Meraka Institute and partners host GEO Sensor Web Enablement Task Team in Cape Town
7 February 2007
On February 7 2007, delegates at the second South African International Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement in Cape Town gather for a side-meeting of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Sensor Web Enablement Task Team. This is the outcome of a work plan put forward by Andre Terhorst of the Meraka Institute's ICT for Earth Observation research group at the Third Plenary Session of the GEO, which took place in Bonn, Germany from 28 - 29 November 2006. The Meraka Institute is a national research centre managed by the CSIR.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and put in place a refined plan to address the “development of scenarios or use cases that demonstrate the value of sensor webs to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). Specific domains that can benefit from sensor web are for instance disasters, health, biodiversity, ecosystem and water.”
Terhorst notes, “The primary output of the task team will be the design of a distributed geospatial infrastructure for sensor web services and test implementations of sensor web enablement. This will be supported by the development of standards for the use of sensor webs.”
“Secondary outputs will be reports and workshops and a proposed web-based access system to the sensor web products. Additional outputs include catalogues and registries for sensor web service instances, sensor instances and phenomenon instances, taking account of differences in the handling of sensor webs by the various information communities leading to registries that serve as phenomenon or sensor dictionaries as well as catalogues.”
For more information on the activities of the GEO Sensor Web Enablement Task Team, please contact Andrew Terhorst
News supplied by: Biffy van Rooyen
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