1. Summary

The amount of data for the present, past and future of earth environment is now expanding explosively, but some data are just left unnoticed due to the insufficient information infrastructure to utilize them. The integration of data is becoming more and more as research is required to be more and more multidisciplinary using not only data from the same field, but from other fields.

I am now doing a few research projects for the integration of earth science data. The current status is summarized as follows.

Project Purpose Target Scale
Digital Typhoon Integration of science data and social data; Integration of present, past and future Single Small
Vertical Earth Integration across disciplines (vertical integration); Integration across organizations (horizontal integration) Multiple Middle
DIAS Integration of heterogeneous large-scale data; Integration of data in large-scale information space Multiple Large

2. References (Complete List)

  1. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Integration of Earth Environmental Data", Symposium on Cross-disciplinary Data-Centric Science, 2008-04 (Panel) (in Japanese) [ Abstract ]