Distributed Geospatial Processing Michael F. Goodchild University of California Santa Barbara

Cyberinfrastructure for Geography n Atkins report port.pdf n Cyberinfrastructure is the coordinated aggregate of software, hardware and other technologies, as well as human expertise, required to support current and future discoveries in science and engineering. The challenge of Cyberinfrastructure is to integrate relevant and often disparate resources to provide a useful, usable, and enabling framework for research and discovery characterized by broad access and “end-to-end” coordination. –Berman/Brady report, FINAL.pdf

Infrastructure for a small discipline n GRS budget $5 million –0.1% –compare the geosciences, oceanography, ecology –GEON n Expanding the base –geosciences –social sciences –humanities and humanistic social sciences

CI for the social sciences n From statistical databases to fMRI images –only a small fraction geospatial

Six research topics n Grid computing –high-end, integrated –remote processing IP, changing rapidly geocoding n Data integration –spatial mismatch areal interpolation NHGIS n Interfaces to other sciences –human/environment interaction

Six research topics (2) n Process objects –digital representations of process the processes of analysis behavioral processes –metadata, archives, standards, languages n Discovery –geoportals n Collaborative technologies

CI for the humanities n and the more humanistic social sciences –ACLS –Mellon funding – –digitizing the cultural record –academic publishing the future of society journals and university presses

Geospatial CI n NSDI –metadata –clearinghouse –GOS –OGC n A well-defined subset of information –pervading many sciences –what remains to be done?

A CI research agenda n Interoperability –syntax –semantics –accuracy –support n Geonames –gazetteer –language, alphabets – –phonics n Local observation –sensors –humans –integration, verification, distribution

More research topics n CI as a solution to the confidentiality issue –computing behind a firewall –intelligent software agents –anticipated requests