Environment Explorer

The Environment Explorer is a library for investigating on the physical and chemical characteristics associated to a couple of coordinates. It is able to retrieve a set of features, that is a n-dimensional vector of real numbers, from a 2-dimensional point referring to a place on the earth.

Overview

The need for investigating on the physical and chemical characteristics of the sea or of land is crucial in many applications of biology Gcube Services and user interfaces can need to enrich data associated to some points in order to better understand the characteristics of the sea or of the land which can influence the behavior of some species. Geo-Spatial data management can be difficult to retrieve, as it is not obvious that data are stored at the required resolution. In many cases data are not yet present on the infrastructure. We can distinguish such data in

• Stored datasets: some physical or chemical features layer, containing information at a certain resolution, for a certain time period;
• Remote datasets: some physical or chemical features layer, stored on a remote site, to be discovered by means of searching techniques. They will refer to certain time and resolution;
• Potential datasets: some physical or chemical features which are not available for some points, but that can be produced by means of geospatial functions like kriging or resampling.

The Environment Explorer Library tries to address the above cases.