The GIM Services

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The GIM Services

• Earth Observation service chaining via XML
• ESTEC 17th of January 2003

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about GIM

• Our mission is to deliver geographic information
  based solutions to government, non-profit
  organizations and private companies, to enable
  our clients to improve and optimize their
  business processes which are spatially related.

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our expertise

• Management consultancy
• Technical support
• Applications development
• Studies
• Training

GIS
Earth Observation
Geo ICT
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at home in your line of business

• agriculture
• environment
• traffic mobility
• regional planning
• energy/public utilities
• policy and planning
• geo-marketing
• internet

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why GIM services on MASS? (1)

• MASS as central market place
• one-stop shopping place for geographic
  information
• MASS will attract important players in the
  domain
• as consequence, MASS will attract many interested
  and interesting users, and thus potential clients

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why GIM services on MASS? (2)

• MASS capability of chaining services
• advantage for Service Provider
• concentrate on core business
• leave non-core business to other service
  providers
• advantage for end-user
• will receive, in one stop, products that better
  suite his needs

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GIM services on MASS

• Data brokerage service
• Basic services
• to support GIMs data brookerage service
• to support services of other service providers on
  MASS
• Area of Interest service
• Intelligent Geodata Conversion and Extraction
  Service (ICE services)

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GIMs Area of Interest service

• for the end-user
• enable the user to limit the requested service to
  his area of interest
• available to the user during service request of
  quotation or order
• for the service provider
• configurable by the service provider during
  service configuration
• AOI delivered as GML vector file to the service
  provider

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AOI tool - overview of use
Configure AOI- default select method- limit AOI
area - define select - define GML
Select AOI- by region - by bounding box - by
digitizing - by upload file
Service Provider
AOI GML- label - code - bounding box- polygon
coordinates
AOI tool
User
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AOI tool - Client view (1)

• AOI selection methods

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AOI tool - Client view (2)

• Select Region in list

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AOI tool - Client view (3)

• Select Region on map

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AOI tool - Client view (4)

• Select by entering coordinates

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AOI tool - Client view (5)

• Select by uploading file

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AOI tool - SP configuration view
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AOI GML schema
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GIMs ICE services

• set of horizontal services available for Service
  Providers connected to MASS
• can be used independently or chained
• vector and raster data
• co-ordinate transformation
• intelligent data format conversion
• generalisation of vector data/resampling raster
  data
• clipping data on Area of Interest

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GIMs ICE services example

• chained with VITO services
• off-the-shelf data package
• HDF - worldwide or continent
• customised product
• converted to user-friendly format (GeoTIFF, TIFF,
  JPEG, )
• projected to users coordinate system
• clipped on Area of Interest

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GIMs ICE services technical
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GIMs data brokerage service

• Next phase of MASS
• GIM is data provider of
• Road network data
• High resolution satellite imagery
• Administrative and geomarketing data
• Aim is to provide user ready-for-use products
• chaining with our basic servies
• customise products on-the-fly