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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
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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 • http://cybergis1.cigi.uiuc.edu/node/31 • CyberGIS’12: The First International Conference on Space, Time, and CyberGIS • http://www.cigi.illinois.edu/cybergis12/ • CyberGIS All-Hands Meeting 2013 • http://cybergis.cigi.uiuc.edu/cyberGISwiki/doku.php/ahm13/index • CyberGIS’14?
Chair of the Science Advisory Committee • Michael Goodchild Principal Investigator • Shaowen Wang • Project Manager • Anand Padmanabhan • Co-Principal Investigators • Luc Anselin • Budhendra Bhaduri • Timothy Nyerges • Nancy Wilkins-Diehr • Project Staff • ASU: WenwenLiand Rob Pahle • ORNL: RangaRajuVatsavai • SDSC: ChoonhanYoun • UIUC: Yan Liu and AnandPadmanabhan • Graduate and undergraduate students • Senior Personnel • Michael Goodchild • Sergio Rey • Xuan Shi • Marc Snir • E. Lynn Usery NSF SI2-SSI: CyberGIS Project $4.43 million, Year: 2010-2015 • Industrial Partner: Esri • Steve Kopp
Data / Information Geo Spatial CyberGIS Computing Communication
Integration and Synthesis • "The whole is more than the sum of its parts.“ • 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
Geospatial Sciences and Technologies • Patterns (maps) –> processes (simulations) • Spatial -> spatiotemporal • Beyond mapping • Collaboration • Decision making • Geo-design • Problem solving
Discovery and Innovation Apps Service Toolkit CyberGIS Portal Platform Gateway Infrastructure Cloud Grid Middleware Advanced Technologies Wang, S. 2013. “CyberGIS: Blueprint for Integrated and Scalable Geospatial Software Ecosystems.” International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27 (11), in press
www.cybergis.org • A collaborative software framework encompassing many research fields • Geo • Spatial • Seamless integration of advanced cyberinfrastructure, GIS, and spatial analysis and modeling • 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
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
Acknowledgements • NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) Program • This material is based in part upon work supported by NSF under Grant Number OCI-1047916 • 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
Thanks! • Comments / Questions? • Email: shaowen@illinois.edu