Project Number: 5402-13660-006-04
Project Type: Reimbursable

Start Date: Aug 01, 2003
End Date: Jan 31, 2005

Objective:
Develop a library of computer software routines that implement standard protocols for translating and exchanging spatial information between GIS, environmental models, and related tools (e.g. visualization and geodata processing tools.)

Approach:
The approach will be the development of a Geospatial Object Library for Environmental Modeling (GEOLEM), which implements a "middleware" solution for 1)the definition, storage and manipulation of geographic metadata and 2) the transformation of information from the form of one context into another based on metadata specification (e.g. from the spatial data formats of GIS into the parameter organization of an environmental model). Fundamental to this approach will be the establishment of a standard metadata nomenclature for referencing the array of geographic feature types relevent to environmental modeling (e.g. watershed, ecological habitat, landuse patterns). With these standards in place, generic sets of information translation adapters can be developed such that once a modeler has "mapped" their unique modeling system nomenclature to the standard nomenclature, transfer of information to and from GIS using GEOLEM is completely automated.

Project Team

Ahuja, Lajpat - Laj Dunn, Gale Ascough, James Green, Timothy Ma, Liwang McMaster, Gregory - Greg

Related National Programs

Water Quality & Management (201)   Soil Resource Management (202)