Challenges of Defense Spatial Data Infrastructures
Roger Brackin MSc, TENET Technology Ltd
30/03/07
The Brave New World on the Horizon
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), and their geospatial derivatives, commonly called Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) are gaining visibility as key future technologies in a range of commercial, civil and defense environments and in a number of cases are becoming reality.
All areas of commerce and government, encouraged by the rapid evolution of the Internet, as a communications framework, and easily available clients e.g. Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth, are identifying the benefits of being able to readily access geospatial information no matter where and on what GIS infrastructure it is served. In fact, the whole concept of a GIS 'system' is being broken down with SOA, heralding integration of all types of information in GI Systems, business systems, scheduling and planning systems, etc. allowing people to concentrate on the business need.
To read the full article, please download the PDF on the left.
30/03/07
The Brave New World on the Horizon
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), and their geospatial derivatives, commonly called Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) are gaining visibility as key future technologies in a range of commercial, civil and defense environments and in a number of cases are becoming reality.
All areas of commerce and government, encouraged by the rapid evolution of the Internet, as a communications framework, and easily available clients e.g. Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth, are identifying the benefits of being able to readily access geospatial information no matter where and on what GIS infrastructure it is served. In fact, the whole concept of a GIS 'system' is being broken down with SOA, heralding integration of all types of information in GI Systems, business systems, scheduling and planning systems, etc. allowing people to concentrate on the business need.
To read the full article, please download the PDF on the left.