Geoinformatics : data to knowledge / edited by A. Krishna Sinha.

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Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2006.
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v, 282 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.

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    "The science of informatics in the broadest sense has been several thousands of years in the making. With the recent emergence of large storage devices and high-speed processing of data, it has become possible to organize vast amounts of data as digital products with ontologic tags and concepts for smart queries. Coupling this computational capability with earth science data defines the emerging field of geoinformatics. Since the science of geology was established several centuries ago, observations led to conclusions that were integrative in concept and clearly had profound implications for the birth of geology. As disciplinary information about Earth becomes more voluminous, the use of geoinformatics will lead to integrative, science-based discoveries of new knowledge about planetary systems. Twenty one research papers, co-authored by 96 researchers from both earth and computer sciences, provide the first-ever organized presentation of the science of informatics as it relates to geology. Readers will readily recognize the vast intellectual content represented by these papers as they seek to address the core research goals of geoinformatics."--Publisher's website.
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    Contents
    • Representing geoscientific knowledge in cyberinfrastructure : some challenges, approaches, and implementations / Boyan Brodaric and Mark Gahegan
    • Community effort to construct a gravity database for the United States and an associated Web portal / G. Randy Keller [and others]
    • Georgia Basin Digital Library for sustainable development : a digital library approach to addressing the societal relevance of geoscientific knowledge / Rob Harrap [and others]
    • Integrated chronostratigraphic data system for the twenty-first century / Paul J. Sikora [and others]
    • Geochemical database for western North American volcanic and intrusive rocks (NAVDAT) / J. Douglas Walker [and others]
    • Building the American Mineralogist Crystal Structural Database : a recipe for construction of a small Internet database / Hareesh Rajan [and others]-- Geoscience concept models / Stephen M. Richard
    • Managing scientific data : from data integration to scientific workflows / Bertram Ludäscher [and others]
    • Active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, and fault sytem dynamics : how geoinformatics can help / J. Ramón Arrowsmith
    • Fusion of Landsat ETM+ and radar data to enhance the extraction of surface and near-subsurface information / Hongjie Xie and G. Randy Keller
    • Data fusion in geophysics : seismic tomography and crustal structure in Poland as an example / Matthew G. Averill [and others]
    • Schema to ontology for igneous rocks / A.K. Sinha [and others]
    • GeoNet : use of grid technologies in geoinformatics for the transition zone between the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range province / Leonardo Salayandia [and others]
    • Development of ontologies for earth system science / Rob Raskin
    • Case for transforming the geological survey knowledge system : where digital geoscience spatial models meet the semantic grid / T.V. Loudon
    • Concept of geological uncertainties and new ways of their geomathematical evaluation ; Application of fuzzy arithmetic and prior information to the assessment of the completeness of a mineral exploration program : a case study / György Bárdossy and János Fodor
    • System integrator in distributed data systems : the OPeNDAP Data Connector (ODC) / Peter Cornillon, John Chamberlain, and Daniel Holloway
    • Bird's-eye view of data mining in geosciences / Rahul Ramachandran [and others]
    • New GIS-driven geophysical database for the southwestern United States / Jesse B. Yoburn [and others]
    • Designing a modular architecture for the structural geology ontology / Hassan A. Babaie [and others].
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    ISBN
    • 0813723973 ((pbk.))
    • 9780813723976 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2005055215
    OCLC
    62282373
    International Article Number
    • 9780813723976
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