Workflows and extensions to the Kepler scientific workflow system to support environmental sensor data access and analysis

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-50

  Barseghian, Derik ^a   Altintas, Ilkay ^b   Jones, Matthew B ^a   Crawl, Daniel ^b   Potter, Nathan ^c   Gallagher, James ^c   Cornillon, Peter ^d   Schildhauer, Mark ^a   Borer, Elizabeth T ^e   Seabloom, Eric W ^e   Hosseini, Parviez R ^f  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OPeNDAP Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Near real time data access; Oceanography; Scientific workflows; Sensors; Terrestrial ecology

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXPLORATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; REAL TIME; SENSOR; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 75949121297     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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