AuScope - infrastructure for Solid Earth Informatics

AuScope recently held a symposium event showcasing the many components which make up its national research infrastructure. Ranging from data collection campaigns, instrumentation for high resolution spatial positioning, through web services for data access and computational analysis - AuScope has created a wealth of new data, tools and techniques to aid researchers in earth informatics, focused on the structure of the Australian continent. You can find out more about AuScope by checking out the symposium publications and listening to the webcasts.

My involvement with AuScope is in leading the development of the national data access infrastructure which is powered by OGC Web Services and a package of Free and Open Source Software we refer to as the Spatial Information Services Stack (SISS). SISS is deployed at Australian Government geological surveys and Universities. This is the same technology that powers the Geoscience Australia Australian Reflectance Grid web services I posted about previously.

You can watch the talk about the AuScope web services infrastructure and SISS here.