Hello Kumara
Le 03/04/13 15:43, Harsha Kumara a écrit :
Those resources are really helpful for us to get a good background about
science workflows and gateways.Now we focus more on to geoscience related
aspects.
As you suggested we are looking into Apache SIS to some extent. But we need
to know whether that integration will completely expose OGC and how far
convenient it will be for scientists.
To give some context, it may be worth to present some of the SIS
contributors.
I'm myself an oceanographer by formation (I'm not supposed to be a
developer) and started to work on GIS as a side effect of a Ph.D thesis
in oceanography, with a strong need for statistical analysis work. For
this reason, my contribution to SIS is strongly focused on scientist
needs. While I admit that ease of use is important, my personal approach
is to try to be accurate first, then provide convenience methods next.
Incidentally, I work in a small company which is hosted by a public
research institutes specialized in remote sensing images.
We are also OGC members. I'm the current chair of the GeoAPI working
group. Frédéric Houbie is a member of the OGC Architecture Board (OAB)
and the editor of some OGC specifications. Johann Sorel has done 2 or 3
years ago for OGC Met-Ocean group a proof of concept of SLD usability to
meteorological maps.
We are in the process of porting approximatively one million lines of
code to Apache SIS. While only ISO 19115 metadata is emerging right now,
the stack to port comprise referencing services, coverages, features,
processing, rendering, catalog, sensors, web services (WMS, WCS, WPS,
etc.), desktop application, and more. They are currently available as
various open source projects (Geotoolkit.org, MapFaces,
Constellation-SDI, Puzzle-GIS, MD-Web) that we would like to consolidate
in Apache SIS. In this process, we are putting effort in consolidation,
documenting, adding more tests, and resolving some known limitations.
We are in an interesting situation where the project is both relatively
young, and disposes of a relatively large code base. Peoples can
evaluate the existing code in the above-mentioned projects and express
their concerns before we port them to Apache SIS. It may be a nice
opportunity, because it is easier to influence a young project than an
old one in order to meet your needs.
Regards,
Martin
