2009 GIS.Science - SDI, GIS and the GRID

In this issue of GIS.Science we have a thematic focus on the coupling of SDI and Grid technologies. The motivation for the theme is presented by an introductory overview on Grid technologies given by Christian Kiehle and Patrick Mauè. Craig A. Lee from the Open Grid Forum and George Percivall from the Open Geospatial Consortium refer to the many worldwide initiatives towards SDI on the Grid. Werder/Krüger identify six pertinent research questions with regard to the parallelisation of spatial data processing. Padberg/Greve and Woolf/Sharon investigate the Web Processing Service (WPS), how this may be distributed in the Grid and how the Grid processing may be encapsulated. Kurzbach et al. use Grid technologies for flood modelling using service-oriented spatial data infrastructures. Foerster et al. illustrate how the problem of cartographic generalisation may be assisted using the Grid. A summary of the 12th AGILE Conference 2009 from Schiewe and of the workshop on SDI and the Grid from Kiehle round off the central theme.

The digital copy of the journal can be downloaded from here: http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=35975