Sensor Webs: enabling decision support and enterprise architectures.(enterprise enablement)

GEO World, December, 2004 by Percivall, George

Imagine hundreds of Internet- or radio-accessible ground-based, stationary or mobile weather sensors providing real-time measurements of current wind and temperature conditions in support of plume modeling to estimate the progress of chemical or radiological contaminants. Such an application would involve a collection of Web-based services that maintain a registry of available sensors and their characteristics. The application can request information and assemble such information into one or more geospatial data layers.

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Imagine a set of Internet-accessible imagery sources, some dynamic and some archived, that can be used together in a sequence of processing steps to create an information product suitable for a specific...

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