CSISS is continuing support of OGC OWS-9

CCI and Innovations threads

23 April 2012
Point of Contact (PoC): Prof. Liping Di
CCI thread:

• OWS-9 CCI Conflation with Provenance Engineering Report (Lead) (Genong Yu)
• Conflation Web Processing Service (Genong Yu)
• Catalog for Provenance (Peng Yue)
• Metadata encodings for Semantic Mediation (Yuanzheng Shao)
• Conflation rules encoding (Genong Yu)

• OWS-9 OWS Innovations WCS for LIDAR Engineering Report (Lead) (Weiguo Han)
• WCS 2.0 Service - GML JP2, LIDAR Gridded (Yuanzheng Shao)
• OWS-9 OWS Innovations Coverage Access Study Engineering Report (contributor) (Wenli Yang)
• WCS 2.0 Service – Access Innovations (Yuanzheng Shao)
• OWS-9 Innovations GMLJP2 for NITF Engineering Report (contributor) (Yuanzheng Shao)

CropScape Project Team won

the 63rd Annual Secretary's Honor Awards of U. S. Department of Agriculture

13 September 2011 CropScape - Cropland Data Layer Project Team won the 63rd Annual Secretary's Honor Awards of U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Secretary's Annual Honor Awards are the most prestigious awards presented by USDA. The purpose of Honor Awards is to provide high-level recognition to people who have made outstanding contributions to USDA's mission. The team is composed of staff from Center for Spatial Infomration Science and Systems (CSISS) and National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Team members from CSISS include Prof. Liping Di, Dr. Weiguo Han, Dr. Meixia Deng, Dr. Genong Yu, Mr. Ali Yagci, and Ms. Chunming Peng. This esteemed accomplishment testifies the hard work and success of the team.

CSISS is continuing support of OGC OWS-8

WCS-EO, Sensor fusion, and Aviation

29 March 2011
Point of Contact (PoC): Prof. Liping Di

Task Items:
1. Overall weekly and monthly progress report and telecon (Peisheng Zhao, Genong Yu, Yuqi Bai)

2. WCS-EO tasks (coordinator: Peisheng Zhao)
2.1 HDF-EOS swath/grid structure (both 4 and 5) to WCS-EO profile GML mapping (Wenli Yang, Peisheng Zhao)
2.2 HDF- EOS metadata to WCS-EO metadata mapping (Wenli Yang, Peisheng Zhao)
2.3 WCS-EO supporting HDF-EOS4 and HDF-EOS5 (both swath and grid), open source reference implementation (Yuanzheng Shao, Peisheng Zhao, Wenli Yang)

3. Sensor fusion/sensor web (coordinator: Genong Yu)
3.1 WPS for video change track (Zeqiang Chen, Genong Yu)
3.2 Mobile client (Gil Heo, Genong Yu)

4. Aviation (in-kind) (Yuqi Bai)
4.1 WXXM 1.1 WCS 2.0 (Huilin Wang, Yuqi Bai with help of Yuangzheng Shao)

Click here to know more details about OGC OWS-8.

2012 HDF-EOS Workshop XV

17-19 April 2012 CSISS/GMU has two presentations during HDF-EOS Workshop XV: "Access HDF-EOS data with OGC Web Coverage Service - Earth Observation Application Profile" by Dr. Yuanzheng Shao and "Web-based On-demand Global NDVI Data Services" by Dr. Dayong Shen.

Seminar: Crop Yield Estimation Research in China

21 Feb. 2012 Prof. Jianqiang Ren from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, visited CSISS, and gave a presentation.

Seminar: High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing

21 Feb. 2012 Prof. Yan Lei, director of Head of Spatial Information Integration & Its Applications Beijing Key Laboratory, from the RS & GIS Institute of Peking University, visited CSISS, and gave a presentation.

Seminar: Semantic-based Discovery of Spatial Data Services - A Case Using OGC WFS

19 Sep. 2010 Mr. Wei Liu gave a presentation on his research progress, which is a summary of his research and study conducted at CSISS. He is a PHD student in Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering in the School of Environment and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, China. He is also co-supervised by Prof. Liping Di. The presented R&D results will be the essential components of his dissertation to be fully developed.

Seminar: Recent studies on climate and environment changes in East Asia

13 Sep. 2010 Prof. Jinjun Ji from the Institute of Atmosphere Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, visited CSISS, and gave a presentation.

Seminar: Video Change Detection Web Processing Service

30 July 2010 Mr. Zeqiang Chen, a Ph.D. student of Professor Liping Di, gave a presentation about his work on the implementation of video change detection Web Processing Service in the OWS-7 (OGC testbed phase 7).

2010 IEEE IGARSS

25-30 July 2010 CSISS/GMU has two presentations during this symposium: "Persistent WCS and CSW services of GOES data for GEOSS" and "Enhancing Remote Sensing Education with GeoBrain Cyberinfrastructure". Dr. Meixia Deng co-chaired two sessions with Dr. Hampapuram Ramaprian: FR2.L03 GIS Applications and FRP2.PF Geographic Information Science: Applications.

2010 ESIP Federation Summer Meeting and Winner of Annual Mini-grant Competition

20-23 July 2010 There are two posters presented during this meeting: "Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Common Infrastructure (GCI)" (Douglas D. Nebert, Liping Di, Yuqi Bai, Xuanang Cheng) and "Sharing and Analyzing DEM Datasets Through DEM Explorer" (Weiguo Han, Liping Di, Peisheng Zhao, Xiaoyan Li, Yuanzheng Shao, Meixia Deng).
Dr. Weiguo Han attented this meeting. The project titled Sharing and Analyzing DEM Datasets Through DEM Explorer from CSISS won $5,000 award in Annual Mini-grant competition from ESIP FUNding Friday.

April 23, 2012: Special Issue: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing - Geoscience Data Provenance. Call for Papers

March 22, 2012: CropScape is listed as one of highlights of Agency Open Government IT Accomplishments

CropScape is listed as one of highlights of Agency Open Government IT Accomplishments that improve citizen engagement in the Office of Management and Budget's report of FY 2011 Report to Congress on the Implementation of The E-Government Act of 2002. Click here to know details.

May 23, 2011: Computers & Geosciences Special Issue "Virtual Globes in Science" published

This issue was edited by Dr. Aijun Chen and Dr. John Bailey. It was published by Computers & Geosciences journal in January 2011 as volume 37, issue 1. Please click here to find this issue on the sciencedirect website.

April 11, 2011: "Geospatial Web Services: Advances in Information Interoperability" book published

This book was published by IGI Global. ISBN-10: 1609601920 ISBN-13: 9781609601928 This book is edited by Dr. Peisheng Zhao and Dr. Liping Di. Please click here to find this book on the IGI Global website.

The book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings and applications in the area. This book highlights the strategic role of geospatial Web services in a distributed heterogeneous environment and the life cycle of geospatial Web services for building interoperable geospatial applications.

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