The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a
multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from …

The European Geoportal has been identified as one of the building blocks of a European
Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI). The vision of the EU Geoportal is to allow users to …

Finding suitable information in the open and distributed environment of current geographic
information web services is a crucial task. Service brokers (or catalogue services) provide …

During a catastrophic event, the International Charter 1" Space and Major Disasters" is
regularly activated and provides the rescue teams damage maps prepared by a photo …

The aggregation of web services in order to achieve a common goal is a basic concept in
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). This paper demonstrates OGC Web Services (OWS) …

Increasing interests in a global environment and climate change have led to studies focused
on the changes in the multinational Arctic region. To facilitate Arctic research, a spatial data …

As the demand for geospatial data increases, the lack of efficient ways to find suitable
information becomes critical. In this paper, a new methodology for knowledge discovery in …

Polar regions have garnered substantial research attention in recent years because they are
key drivers of the Earth's climate, a source of rich mineral resources, and the home of a …

The German–Vietnamese water-related information system for the Mekong Delta (WISDOM)
project supports business processes in Integrated Water Resources Management in …

Standardisation efforts in the geospatial domain, provided by ISO TC 211 and OpenGIS
Consortium, have brought many specifications and standards that define structure and …