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Develop geospatial web service and knowledge management
technologies for NASA EOS data environment.
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Implement them in an open, standard-based, distributed,
interoperable web service system—GeoBrain.
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Provide the data-enhanced learning environment enabled by
GeoBrain to higher-education institutes for easy accessing,
analyzing, and modeling with the huge volume of NASA EOSDIS data
and information.
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Enable the education users to handle vast NASA EOS data and
computing resources like their local ones.
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Develop/enhance courses that fully utilize the environment for
Earth System Science/Geospatial education.
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Geo-object and geo-tree concepts form the theoretical
foundation for the geospatial web service and knowledge
management technologies in GeoBrain.
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Standard-based web service system enables the dynamic and
interactive construction and running of interoperable
geospatial service modules and models over the web.
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Open GIS Consortium’s standards on geospatial web
services are the foundation for the service and model
interoperability. Geospatial models, constructed from
standard-based services modules, and their components are
reusable in construction of other geospatial models and are
sharable with peers.
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The system is built on the top of the common data environment
enabled by Open GIS Consortium (OGC)
Web
Coverage Service (WCS),
Web
Feature Service (WFS),
Web
Map Service (WMS) and Catalog Service for Web (CSW)
Specifications.
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With the common data environment, models can access petabytes
of geospatial data without worrying about details of the data
formations and data preprocessing.
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The full implementation of the GeoBrain system will allow
anyone equipped with an Internet-connected PC to conduct
large-scale projects on Earth science research and applications
with great easiness.
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Teacher and Faculty Enhancement and Support
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Student Enrichment Programs
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Curriculum Development and Support
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Educational Technology
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Professional/Workforce Development
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