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从信息化基础设施角度展望下一代地理信息系统 2008.10 What is Cyberinfrastructure? Cyberinfrastructure Evolution Integration – Holism The whole is more than the sum of its parts.“ By Aristotle in the Metaphysics Motivation – What’s Beyond/Next? Challenges Problems User interface – not intuitive Based on window, icon, menu, pointing device Single user Desktop-based Hard to collaborate Low performance How much data can we analyze? Purpose Illustrate how GISolve – a cyberinfrastructure-based GIS is developed to help advance research and education of GIScience and cyberinfrastructure Demonstrate science impact of GISolve and the use of GISolve as an education tool Background Geographic information quantity Ever increasing Application driven GPS, location based services, remote sensing Computationally intensive geographic information analysis Heuristics and optimization Simulation Spatial statistical methods Cyberinfrastructure (CI) High-performance computing Virtual organization Grid computing, middleware Data, visualization, and knowledge Education and workforce development Review CI-based geographic analysis Wang et al. 2008, Wang and Armstrong 2008, Wang and Zhu, 2008, Wang and Armstrong 2003 Domain-specific CI activities GEON (Geosciences Network) LEAD (Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery) NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) WATERS (WATer and Environmental Research Systems) Network Internet/Web-based GIS Tsou 2004, Wang et al. 2005, Yang et al. 2005 Ontology-driven GIS Fonseca et al. 2002 CI Complexity Cyberinfrastructure Is evolving Has many sophisticated components Has NOT been developed to directly focus on the requirements of domain-specific problem solving Managing CI Complexity Science and engineering gateway Rooted in CI Problem solving environments Rooted in domain science and engineering GISolve – Integrating CI Capabilities and GIS GISolve Middleware Computational Intensity = Wattage?! Spatial Computational Domain Wang, S., and Armstrong, M. P. 2008. “A T