1. Peckham, R. J. & Guimarães Pereira, Â. EC-GIS Workshop GIS OF TOMORR OW STRESA, ITALY 28th - 30th JUNE 1999

2. What... The Choice of the Projects Concluding Remarks Overview of the Projects What may be missing ?

3. finished after December 1996 Overview about WHAT... Handbook of GIS Project Summaries. 1997. DG III & JRC initiative. Sources of Information  Areas Covered by the Projects  Aims and Technologies Used  Adoption and implementation of Standards  Innovation Content  Uptake & Impact on Competitiveness of European Industry  Handbook of GIS Project Summaries  The Projects Web Sites  Direct contact with Project responsible Scope of the Overview 17 ESPRIT GIS 17 ESPRIT GIS projects

4. ESPRIT GIS Projects AGENT Automated Generalisation New Technology BEST-GIS DISGIS Best Practice in Software Engineering and methodologies for Developing GIS Applications Co-operative Multidimensional Multimedia Topological Elements Reintegration Distributed Geographical Information Systems - Models Methods Tools and Frameworks MAP DESIGN SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE OF SPATIAL DATABASES DISTRIBUTED GIS USER INTERFACE DESIGN COMMUTER

5. ESPRIT GIS Projects GIPSIE GIS Interoperability Project Stimulating the Industry in Europe GEOMIST INTFO Geological and Mining Information System on the Iberian Pyrite Belt Multimedia based Access to Online Cartographic Information Corporation Integrated Intelligent Multimedia Assistant for Field Operators OPEN GIS C. DIFFUSION GEOLOGICAL INFO. SYSTEM TO MINING COMP.s MULTIMEDIA ACCESS TO ONLINE CARTOGRAPHY MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION FOR FIELD OPERATIONS GEONET4D GEIXS Geological Electronic Information Exchange System GEO-SCIENTIFIC METADATA-B.

6. ESPRIT GIS Projects ISIS MMIPPS Interactive Satellite Image Server on Generation Image Coding Multispectral and Multitemporal Image Processing on Parallel Systems OBOE Open Business Object Environment Marketing Server Upon INTERNET/ INTRANET MARKSERV ACCESS TO EARTH OBSERVATION INFO. SERVICES TO ASSIST GEO- MARKETING IMAGE PROCESSING THROUGH NET PARALLEL PROCESSING DEMONSTRATION OF THE BUSINESS OBJECT FACILITY

7. ESPRIT GIS Projects OMEGA Object Oriented Methods and Development Environment for Geo- science Applications PARSAR REVIGIS TOOBIS Parallelisation of the Chirp Scaling Algorithm SAR Processor Uncertainty Knowledge Maintenance and Revision in Geographic Information Systems Temporal Object Oriented Databases within Information Systems EXTENSION OF SW TO ENCOURAGE DISTRIBUTED GEOSCIENCE APPLICATIONS IMAGE PROCESSING ENHANCEMENT FROM SAR TO IMPROVE HANDLING OF TIME & UNCERTAINTY TEMPORAL OBJECT- ORIENTED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

8. Areas Covered AGENT COMMUTER, GEONET4D, INTFO DISGIS, COMMUTER, INTFO GEIXS, GEOMIST, GEONET4D, OMEGA GIPSIE, COMMUTER, DISGIS, GEOMIST ISIS, MARKSERV, GEOMIST MMIPPS, PARSAR REVIGIS TOOBIS, GEONET4D BEST-GIS BEST-GIS, GIPSIE COMMUTER, REVIGIS DISGIS, GEIXS, GEOMIST, GEONET4D, OMEGA GEIXS, GEOMIST, OMEGA MMIPPS, MARKSERV BEST-GIS, GEONET4D GENERALISATION MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS GEO-SCIENCES INFO. INTEROPERABILITY DATA SERVERS IMAGE PROCESSING UNCERTAINTY TIME BEST PRACTICE NETWORKING (PEOPLE) UPDATE MANAGEMENT DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 3D HIGH-PERF. COMP. NETWORKS USER INTERFACE DESIGN

9. Technologies Deployed  Distributed Architectures  Object-oriented paradigm & languages  Object-oriented DB  Mathematical Modelling  Parallel Processing  Multi-media  3D Modelling and Visualisation  Artificial Intelligence The dominant hardware platforms and OS are: PC’s operating WINDOWS 9X, NT and UNIX Workstations 13 COMMUTER DISGIS GEIXS GEOMIST GEONET4D INTFO ISIS MARKSERV MMIPPS OBOE OMEGA PARSAR AGENT COMMUTER DISGIS GEIXS GEONET4D MARKSERV OMEGA REVIGIS TOOBIS AGENT GEONET4D TOOBIS 9 PARSAR REVIGIS MMIPPS PARSAR GEONET4D INTFO GEIXS GEOMIST GEONET4D OMEGA AGENT INTFO

10. Adoption and Implementation of Standards GI standards Programming standards Network standards Other IT standards CEN TC287, ISO-DIS 10746, ISO 15046, EN 287009, ODP, etc... TCP/IP, HTTP, CORBA, etc... C++, JAVA, SQL, etc... ESRI Shape Files, Autocad DXF, etc...

11. Adoption and Implementation of Standards  BEST-GIS  COMMUTER  DISGIS  GEIXS  GIPSIE  GEOMIST  OMEGA  GEIXS  GEOMIST  GEONET4D  ISIS  MARKSERV  OBOE  OMEGA  AGENT  GEIXS  GEOMIST  GEONET4D  INTFO  ISIS  MARKSERV  OBOE  PARSAR  REVIGIS  TOOBIS  BEST-GIS  GEIXS  GEONET4D  MARKSERV  MMIPPS  OBOE  REVIGIS  TOOBIS Network standards GI standards Programming standards Other IT standards MAJORITY OF PROJECTS USED, DEVELOPED OR PROMOTED STANDARDS… THE WAY AHEAD TO INTEROPERABILITY!

12. DISGIS, GEIXS... GIPSIE... Innovation Content INTEROPERABILITY  dialogue amongst users  technology & data DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS NEW MODELLING FOR OLD PROBLEMS REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE GEONET4D... AGENT... REVIGIS... LOW COST SOLUTIONS MMIPPS...

13. Uptake & Impact on Competitiveness of European Industry  Commercial success  Diffusion into other regions  Adoption in other fields  Recognition by the GI community  Good Impact on Competitiveness of European Industry DISGIS, GEIXS, etc... BEST-GIS GEONET4D COMMUTER, GEIXS, GEOMIST AGENT, DISGIS, GEONET4D difficult to assess in quantitative terms...

14. What Could be Missing...  Validation Process  Fine-Tuning & Customisation INVOLVE POTENTIAL USER COMMUNITIES Quality Assurance of Project Developments Enhance Quality, Uptake…

15. What Could be Missing... Based on the documents: Strategic View of GIS Research and Technology Development for Europe, 1st and 2nd editions, GI2000  Data Modelling  Mechanisms to Assure Data Quality and Integrity  Quality Assurance by Integration of Potential Users  Spatial Analysis for Decision Support  Developments in other thematic areas (facility management, risk & emergency management, etc...)  Interoperability through a Virtual Lab

16. Conclusions Wide range of problem areas Wide range of new ICT Some projects feature highly innovative aspects Most of the projects demonstrate uptake/potential New projects could consider other areas suggested earlier Many projects involve standards (using, developing, promoting) hence engaged in interoperability