Abstract for
"Web-based Portal for Discovery, Retrieval and Visualization of Earth Science Datasets in Grid Environment"
by
Zhenping (Jane) Liu

March 8, 2004

This project is to build an earth science informatics network that will connect research related elements of data, tools, individuals, and organizations that will leverage their strengths and expertise globally. It provides a seamless and powerful environment that facilities distributed resource sharing in heterogeneous multi-institutional dynamic environment.

The current prototype system provides a single web-based portal for users to effectively discover, retrieve, browse, and visualize distributed, dynamic and heterogeneous Earth Science datasets. Scientists don't need to know any information about physical location, storage, content and structure of datasets. The project aims to implement dynamic discovery, heterogeneity transparency, location and name transparency, distribution transparency, and replica transparency for datasets sharing. Also, several analysis and visualization applications are implemented to help users analyze data. A few existed excellent analysis and visualization applications are also being integrated into the system.

In the meeting, I will talk about challenges to share datasets, project goals, proposed solution, proposed system architecture and features of the current prototype system.

Zhenping (Jane) Liu / zhliu@vt.edu