A SMART groundwater portal: An OGC web services orchestration framework for hydrology to improve data access and visualisation in New Zealand

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 78-86

  Klug, Hermann ^a   Kmoch, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CSW; Harmonisation; Interoperability; Metadata; SDI; WebGIS

Indexed keywords

DATA SHARING; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROUNDWATER; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTEROPERABILITY; METADATA; PORTALS; PUBLIC POLICY; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; HARMONISATION; MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT; MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES; SENSOR WEB ENABLEMENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS; WEB-GIS;

WEB SERVICES;

DATA MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GIS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; METADATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84901346896     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2014.04.016     Document Type: Article

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