Ongoing Research into Distributed GIS

Richard Pascoe

Dept of CSSE, University of Canterbury

Thu Apr 08 15:10:00 NZST 2004 in Room 031, MSCS

Abstract

In this presentation I shall report on my on going involvement with the ESA Project sponsored by LINZ and with ISO TC211. I shall also introduce the new departmental Distributed Systems Research Group within which I have established a sub group to investigate issues associated with Distributed Geographical Information Systems (DGIS). I shall highlight two interrelated issues are actively being researched by the DGIS group. One is concerned with applying the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to separate domain knowledge from platform specific implementation details while the other, broader, issue is concerned with using Agents to coordinate and manage updates of distributed geographic data sets within the context of Web Feature and Map Servers (WFS and WMS).