Integrating diverse data using linked data and cloud computing

Grazed from MelodiesProject.  Author: Jon Blower, Debbie Clifford, Pedro Gonc alves, and Manolis Koubarakis.

Environmental applications of space-derived data typically require the integration and fusion of multiple diverse datasets. Increasingly many such datasets are being made available at no cost and with liberal licences enabling wide reuse.

These data encompass both scientific data about the environment (from the ESA Climate Change Initiative, the present and future Sentinel missions and from other observing systems) and other public sector information, including diverse topics such as demographics, health and crime. Many open geospatial datasets (e.g. land use and mapping) are already available through the INSPIRE directive and made available through infrastructures such as the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)…


The potential value inherent in open data, and the benefits that can be gained by combining previously-disparate sources of information, are only just starting to become understood. The MELODIES project (Maximizing the Exploitation of Linked Open Data In Enterprise and Science) is providing impetus in this field, stimulating the use of open data in real-world scenarios…

Read more from the source @ http://www.melodiesproject.eu/sites/default/files/publications/ESA%20BiDS%20MELODIES%20abstract.pdf