RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES VOL. 10, ES6001, doi:10.2205/2007ES000261, 2008
[2] The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Presidium Program "Development of the Fundamentals of the Scientific Distributed Data-processing Environment on the basis of GRID Technologies'' has determined the direction of research "Electronic Earth: scientific data resources and information-communication technologies''. The RAS branches of geoscience, mathematics and information technologies took part in the work in 2004-2007. By the present time the project "Electronic Earth'' has outlined the basic principles of functioning of the systems of data analysis, in the framework of developed and presently operating six web-portals using the modern GIS-, GRID- and WEB-technologies. On the basis of these principles the integrated online information field of a user was elaborated, comprising a set of instruments, analytical methods, descriptions and geophysical data, essential for applied and fundamental research in Earth sciences. It includes thematic data portals, GIS systems, methods of data search and data mapping, distributed system of meta databases and, finally, unique storage of global geophysical data, providing a basic mapping and analytical processing of concrete geographic information projects. For the first time an unparallel scheme of interaction between a researcher and a system of data analysis was designed. The system allows to deal with previously unresolved tasks on modeling and predicting geophysical objects and processes, due to the interdisciplinary character of data resources and scientific methods and thematically mosaic architecture of the network of portals.
[3] The system's experimental exploitation has begun, oriented at qualitatively new level of information support of science. According to the Presidium program, the data-processing segment of GRID in geosciences was formed in the framework of RAS. The project's results were reported at the Russian and international conferences [Arskiy et al., 2007, 2008], and aroused great interest of scientists and experts.
Citation: 2008), Electronic Earth -- network environment of search, integration and analysis of geodata, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 10, ES6001, doi:10.2205/2007ES000261.
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