Transcript Welcome and Introduction to NSF CyberGIS All Hands Meeting

Welcome and Introduction to
CyberGIS All Hands Meeting 2013
Shaowen Wang
CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory (CIGI)
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
Department of Computer Science
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seattle, WA, USA
September 15, 2013
Series
• CyberGIS All-Hands Meeting 2011
o http://cybergis1.cigi.uiuc.edu/node/31
• CyberGIS’12: The First International Conference on Space,
Time, and CyberGIS
o http://www.cigi.illinois.edu/cybergis12/
• CyberGIS All-Hands Meeting 2013
o http://cybergis.cigi.uiuc.edu/cyberGISwiki/doku.php/ahm13/index
• CyberGIS’14?
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NSF SI2-SSI: CyberGIS Project
$4.43 million, Year: 2010-2015
Principal Investigator
– Shaowen Wang
Chair of the Science Advisory Committee
– Michael Goodchild
Co-Principal Investigators
– Luc Anselin
– Budhendra Bhaduri
– Timothy Nyerges
– Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
Project Manager
– Anand Padmanabhan
Senior
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Personnel
Michael Goodchild
Sergio Rey
Xuan Shi
Marc Snir
E. Lynn Usery
Project Staff
– ASU: Wenwen Li and Rob Pahle
– ORNL: Ranga Raju Vatsavai
– SDSC: Choonhan Youn
– UIUC: Yan Liu and Anand
Padmanabhan
– Graduate and undergraduate students
Industrial Partner: Esri
– Steve Kopp
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What is CyberGIS?
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Data / Information
Geo
Spatial
CyberGIS
Computing
Communication
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Integration and Synthesis
• "The whole is more than the sum
of its parts.“
o By Aristotle in the Metaphysics
Borromean rings, after Daniel E. Atkins
Image source: http://www.phy.ornl.gov/theory/dean/RIATG/web_pages/structure_one_pager.html
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Geospatial Sciences and Technologies
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Patterns (maps) –> processes (simulations)
Spatial -> spatiotemporal
Beyond mapping
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Collaboration
Decision making
Geo-design
Problem solving
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Where is CyberGIS from?
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Discovery and Innovation
Apps
Toolkit
Service
Platform Gateway Portal
Infrastructure Cloud
Grid
Middleware
CyberGIS
Advanced Technologies
Wang, S. 2013. “CyberGIS: Blueprint for Integrated and Scalable
Geospatial Software Ecosystems.” International Journal of
Geographical Information Science, 27 (11), in press
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www.cybergis.org
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A collaborative software framework encompassing
many research fields
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Seamless integration of advanced cyberinfrastructure,
GIS, and spatial analysis and modeling
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Geo
Spatial
Capable of handling huge volumes of data, complex analysis and
visualization required for many challenging applications
Empower high-performance and collaborative geospatial problem
solving
Gain fundamental understanding of scalable and
sustainable geospatial software ecosystems
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Objectives
• Participatory Evolution of CyberGIS Community
Requirements
• CyberGIS Software Integration Roadmap
• High Performance and Scalable CyberGIS
• Online CyberGIS Gateway
• CyberGIS Testing and Integration with National and
International Cyberinfrastructure
• Community-Based and Application-Driven Evaluation
of CyberGIS
http://cybergis.cigi.uiuc.edu/cyberGISwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/cybergis-nsfannualreport-year3.pdf
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Acknowledgements
• NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained
Innovation (SI2) Program
• This material is based in part upon work
supported by NSF under Grant Number OCI1047916
• Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material are
those of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science
Foundation
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Thanks!
• Comments / Questions?
• Email: [email protected]
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