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Evaluation of standards and techniques for retrieval of geospatial raster data : a study for the ICOS Carbon Portal

Danehpash, Shirin LU (2015) In Student thesis series INES NGEM01 20152
Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
Abstract
Evaluation of Standards and Techniques for Retrieval of Geospatial Raster Data - A study for ICOS Carbon Portal
Geospatial raster data represent the world as a surface with its geographic information which varies continuously. These data can be grid-based data like Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) and geographic image data like multispectral images. The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) European project is launched to measure greenhouse gases emission. The outputs of these measurements are the data in both geospatial vector (raw data) and raster formats (elaborated data). By using these measurements, scientists create flux maps over Europe. The flux maps are important for many groups such as researchers, stakeholders and... (More)
Evaluation of Standards and Techniques for Retrieval of Geospatial Raster Data - A study for ICOS Carbon Portal
Geospatial raster data represent the world as a surface with its geographic information which varies continuously. These data can be grid-based data like Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) and geographic image data like multispectral images. The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) European project is launched to measure greenhouse gases emission. The outputs of these measurements are the data in both geospatial vector (raw data) and raster formats (elaborated data). By using these measurements, scientists create flux maps over Europe. The flux maps are important for many groups such as researchers, stakeholders and public users. In this regard, ICOS Carbon Portal (ICOS CP) looks for a sufficient way to make the ICOS elaborated data available for all of these groups in an online environment. Among others, ICOS CP desires to design a geoportal to let users download the modelled geospatial raster data in different formats and geographic extents.
Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC) Web Coverage Service (WCS) defines a geospatial web service to render geospatial raster data such as flux maps in any desired subset in space and time. This study presents two techniques to design a geoportal compatible with WCS. This geoportal should be able to retrieve the ICOS data in both NetCDF and GeoTIFF formats as well as allow retrieval of subsets in time and space.
In the first technique, a geospatial raster database (Rasdaman) is used to store the data. Rasdaman OGC component (Petascope) as the server tool connects the database to the client side through WCS protocol. In the Second technique, an advanced file-based system (NetCDF) is applied to maintain the data. THREDDS as the WCS server ships the data to the client side through WCS protocol. These two techniques returned good result to download the data in desired formats and subsets. (Less)
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Evaluation of Standards and Techniques for Retrieval of Geospatial Raster Data
Geospatial data refer to an object or phenomena located on the specific scene in space, in relation with the other objects. They are linked to geometry and topology. Geospatial raster data are a subset of geospatial data. Geospatial raster data represent the world as a surface with its geographic information which varies continuously. These data can be grid-based data like Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) and geographic image data like multispectral images.
The challenges present in working with geospatial raster data are related to three important components: I) storage and management systems, II) standardized services and III) software interface of... (More)
Evaluation of Standards and Techniques for Retrieval of Geospatial Raster Data
Geospatial data refer to an object or phenomena located on the specific scene in space, in relation with the other objects. They are linked to geometry and topology. Geospatial raster data are a subset of geospatial data. Geospatial raster data represent the world as a surface with its geographic information which varies continuously. These data can be grid-based data like Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) and geographic image data like multispectral images.
The challenges present in working with geospatial raster data are related to three important components: I) storage and management systems, II) standardized services and III) software interface of geospatial raster data. Each component has its own importance in the aim of improving the interaction with geospatial raster data. A proper geospatial raster data storage and management system makes it easy to classify, search and retrieve the data. A standardized service is needed to unify, download, process and share these data among other users. The last challenge is choosing suitable software interface to support the standardized services on the web.
The aim is to provide ability for users to download geospatial raster data in different formats in any desired space and time subsets. In this regard, two different techniques are evaluated to connect the main three components to provide such aim. In the first technique, a geospatial raster database is used to store the data. Then this database is connected to the software interface through standardized service. In the Second technique, an advanced file-based system is applied to maintain the data. The server ships the data to software interface through standardized service.
Although these two techniques have their own difficulties, they returned good result. Users can download the data in desired formats on the web. In addition, they can download the data for any specific area and specific time. (Less)
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author
Danehpash, Shirin LU
supervisor
organization
course
NGEM01 20152
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Rasdaman, Web Coverage Service (WCS), ICOS Carbon Portal, Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis, geospatial raster data, Petascope, NetCDF, THREDDS, OpenLayers, geomatics
publication/series
Student thesis series INES
report number
365
language
English
id
8166797
date added to LUP
2015-11-06 14:08:23
date last changed
2016-06-13 09:49:39
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Geospatial raster data represent the world as a surface with its geographic information which varies continuously. These data can be grid-based data like Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) and geographic image data like multispectral images. The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) European project is launched to measure greenhouse gases emission. The outputs of these measurements are the data in both geospatial vector (raw data) and raster formats (elaborated data). By using these measurements, scientists create flux maps over Europe. The flux maps are important for many groups such as researchers, stakeholders and public users. In this regard, ICOS Carbon Portal (ICOS CP) looks for a sufficient way to make the ICOS elaborated data available for all of these groups in an online environment. Among others, ICOS CP desires to design a geoportal to let users download the modelled geospatial raster data in different formats and geographic extents.
Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC) Web Coverage Service (WCS) defines a geospatial web service to render geospatial raster data such as flux maps in any desired subset in space and time. This study presents two techniques to design a geoportal compatible with WCS. This geoportal should be able to retrieve the ICOS data in both NetCDF and GeoTIFF formats as well as allow retrieval of subsets in time and space.
In the first technique, a geospatial raster database (Rasdaman) is used to store the data. Rasdaman OGC component (Petascope) as the server tool connects the database to the client side through WCS protocol. In the Second technique, an advanced file-based system (NetCDF) is applied to maintain the data. THREDDS as the WCS server ships the data to the client side through WCS protocol. These two techniques returned good result to download the data in desired formats and subsets.}},
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