New technology assessment

The sub-project on New Technology Assessment is focusing on the selection, assessment, and adaption of new or innovative technologies through R&D. Promising ones will be integrated to add value to the GENESIS final software. Candidate technologies will be:

Leading-edge technologies, recently entering the market that need complementary adaptation, customisation or optimisation to be efficiently integrated in the GENESIS software,
Other technologies based on standards and harmonisation initiatives, which are still evolving and require some complementary R&D work to prior to their integration in the GENESIS software.

The results will also be provided to the standardisation bodies to enrich their relevant baseline. New technologies topics, covered in the frame of this activity include (please consult the correspondent menu entries for details):

Sensor Networks architecture : to investigate the international standardization activities performed by the OGC or the W3C and OASIS with a special focus on harmonization of related standards.

Ontology / Semantic Web and Multilinguality : to analyse all information components from GENESIS metadata models, data models, service descriptions, fusion language and others in order to provide a consistent multilingual vocabulary of the terms used in these components.
Data fusion & Geo-information Services : to analyse fusion mechanisms able to process in NRT large amounts of data and to optimise them in particular regarding data transmission.

Web Service Security: to find a seamless and transparent integration of security technologies into the general architecture. including the aspects of data protection, access right, DRM. etc..

Scalable Service Infrastructure: to bring GENESIS services and corresponding Service Oriented Architecture to a Web scale, based on design principles that's provide required interoperability, openness and Quality of Service.

Dynamic workflow : to investigate on-the-fly service chaining by users based on web service descriptions with semantic annotations in order to enhance current workflow concepts.

Support of the GEOSS initiative

In addition, "New Technology Assessment" holds also tasks to support the GEOSS initiative with the GENESIS results. Multiple GENESIS partners contribute to the AIP-3 pilot. The specific components of the GENESIS solution, which are leveraged for the pilots on drought, energy management and biodiversity are listed below:

Client used in the GEOSS AIP-3 drought pilot

Drought:

Multi-lingual Thesauri: The GI-DAC service broker is leveraging the SKOS repository for allowing multilingual queries and query expansion based on semantics.
Sensor Networks: The Sensor Event Service is used to filter areas with respect to their drought index and notify subscribed users.
Data Fusion, Geo-Processing Services: Sensor fusion techniques developed in WP 5400 are used to support the filtering performed by the SES and the integration of the SES into the GEOSS pilot architecture.

Energy:

Geoinformation Services: Generic Geo Information Web Processing Services and a tool to generate WPS Client on the basis of a WPS Process Description Document.
Web Portal, Geodata Visualisation Portlet: Generic GeoData Visualisation Portlet that is used to visualise the results of the Web Processing Service. In the case of the Energy Scenario WPS output consists of GML according to a specifically developed EnergyImpact GML application schema. This information is presented on the map, within a table and as a bar chart.
Legacy Interconnection Toolbox: The GENESIS Toolbox has been used and deployed in order to provide OGC Web Processing Services dedicated to Environmental Impact Assessment computation.

Biodiversity:

Multi-lingual Thesauri: The GI-DAC service broker is leveraging the SKOS repository for allowing multilingual queries and query expansion based on semantics.