GEM

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

ESIP Geospatial Experiment Mashup

This is the home page for the 2013 ESIP GEM Experiments.

Overview

What: Create a cross-agency geospatial data mashup. Goal: Understand the state of GIS across agencies.

  • What services are supported?
  • What data formats are used?
  • How can you find data?
  • What tools are available to interact with each agency?

Subject/Theme

As of April 2013, GEM still does not have a definite, well-defined theme. Ideally we want to answer a real research question pertaining to the National Climate Assessment.

Agencies

This section lists the agencies involved with this project, and current point-of-contact within that organization.

  1. NASA, PoC: Ryan Boller
  2. SSEC, PoC: Tommy Jasmin
  3. JPL, PoC: Paul Ramirez
  4. NOAA, PoC: TBD
  5. USGS, PoC: TBD
  6. EPA, PoC: TBD
  7. ESRI, PoC: TBD
  8. OGC, PoC: TBD

Technologies Under Consideration

  1. OSGeo-Live, an open source geospatial VM
  2. Apache SIS, Spatial Information System
  3. GeoServer, Open source, Java-based geospatial data server

Documentation

This section will hold pointers to any GEM-related documentation: presentations, implementation plans, etc.

Status

This section will provide concise, dated status updates.

Results

Our results, if we are successful, will contain two main sections:

  1. Grading the agencies - so others will have an idea who is making their geospatial data easily accessible.
  2. Documented recipe - so others can leverage this work for their own cross-agency geospatial mashups.