Welcome and Introduction to CyberGIS All Hands Meeting 2013

Shaowen WangCyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory (CIGI)Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science

Department of Computer ScienceDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Seattle, WA, USASeptember 15, 2013

• CyberGIS All-Hands Meeting 2011o http://cybergis1.cigi.uiuc.edu/node/31

• CyberGIS’12: The First International Conference on Space, Time, and CyberGISo http://www.cigi.illinois.edu/cybergis12/

• CyberGIS All-Hands Meeting 2013o http://cybergis.cigi.uiuc.edu/cyberGISwiki/doku.php/ahm13/index

• CyberGIS’14?

Series

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NSF SI2-SSI: CyberGIS Project$4.43 million, Year: 2010-2015

Principal Investigator– Shaowen Wang

Project Staff– ASU: Wenwen Li and Rob Pahle– ORNL: Ranga Raju Vatsavai– SDSC: Choonhan Youn– UIUC: Yan Liu and Anand

Padmanabhan– Graduate and undergraduate

studentsIndustrial Partner: Esri– Steve Kopp

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Co-Principal Investigators– Luc Anselin – Budhendra Bhaduri– Timothy Nyerges– Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

Senior Personnel– Michael Goodchild– Sergio Rey– Xuan Shi– Marc Snir– E. Lynn Usery

Project Manager– Anand Padmanabhan

Chair of the Science Advisory Committee – Michael Goodchild

What is CyberGIS?

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Data / Information

Computing Communication

Geo Spatial

CyberGIS

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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

Patterns (maps) –> processes (simulations)

Spatial -> spatiotemporal Beyond mapping

• Collaboration• Decision making• Geo-design• Problem solving

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Where is CyberGIS from?

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CyberGIS

Discovery and Innovation

Advanced Technologies

Wang, S. 2013. “CyberGIS: Blueprint for Integrated and Scalable Geospatial Software Ecosystems.” International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27 (11), in press

InfrastructureMiddleware

PortalGatewayPlatform

ServiceToolkitApps

CloudGrid

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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

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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 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

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Thanks!• Comments / Questions?

• Email: shaowen@illinois.edu

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