Open Source GIS and
Modeling Tools
Doxaras Yiannis
doxaras@gmail.com
Greek FOSS Developers Conference
19 June 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Spatial Modeling
• Addressing the map changing problem.
• Define the time spatial database.
• Integrated Modeling and Spatial data.
• Open Formats
• Open Modeling * Engineering the World
• OGC and OPEN MI partnership.
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Spatial Enabled Services Hype
• EU INSPIRE Directive.
• EEA Distributed Database Mapping Services.
• Spatial Metadata Categorization. Geo-Semantics.
• Science Commons and Free Access *Research Groups to use spatial
data for data mining *Grid and Cloud enabled Computing
• US ”National GIS” and Open GIS Data *Debate under the
Obama Administration
• Industry Marketing. *Focused Geo-Marketing, location aware applications
• Open Accessed Public Data and Geodata.
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Spatial Database
Competition
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Spatial Software EcoSystem
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Geospatial Standards
Zoology
• Catalog Service (CAT)
• GML in JPEG 2000 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/
• KML (KML)
• Sensor Model Language (SensorML)
• Sensor Planning Service (SPS)
• Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)
• Symbology Encoding (Symbol)
• Transducer Markup Language (TML)
• Web Coverage Service (WCS)
• Web Feature Service (WFS)
• Web Map Context (WMC)
• Web Map Service (WMS)
• Web Service Common (WSC)
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Map Changing Problem
• Cadastral Across Europe
• Land Use Maps
• Raster Images Pattern Recognition
• Distributed Databases * data normalization problem and
cross domain reference
• Temporal Spatial Databases *EEA time series example
• Manual Georeference *old arc desktop clicking days, are
not so old after all
Sunday, July 26, 2009

OPEN MI
Legacy Model
c, c++, FORTRAN,
Open MI OPEN MI Compliant
DELPHI,MKL Experts Model
Open MI Modeling Cross Domain
the World Interdisciplinary
Compliant Model Modeling
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Community Use Cases Diagram
Sunday, July 26, 2009

OPEN MI from 50000 ft Above
• State machine *each state represents an object *aspect behavior
• Model Linking. *Mostly Environmental and Water
• SDK under GPL. GUI for Model Linking under
BSD.
• .NET and Java Support
• Currently no .NET and Java model Integration.
• GUI editor only for .NET. *Mono Supported ;-)
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Basic Concepts
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Simple Model Linkage Example
Deadlock Handling
Extrapolation
Sunday, July 26, 2009

LinkableComponent Behavior
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Linkage in Real Life Models
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Spatial Elements
Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Migration of the UTHBAL Hydrologic Model into OpenMI
A. Loukas, K. Kokkinos, L. Vasiliades & A. Liakopoulos
Real Life Models (Lake Karla)
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Supporting FOSS
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Supporting FOSS
Drupal Video Lecture and
Video Comments
PLatform
* flip, vimeo, kultura
Single Sign On
Functionality
Moodle Elgg
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Future Steps
• Parallel Computing Modeling
• Model Optimization
• Hadoop and Terracotta for RMI model
runtime frameworks.
• e-Learning Platform.
• Model Migration
• Grid * maybe a VO
Sunday, July 26, 2009

OGC Open MI
Pilot Project
Aviation
OPEN MI
Sensor Network
Clustered Services
*Meteo Data, SensorML
*land uses
*StreamFlows
*edaphic data
WMS, WFS
Map Providers and Consumers
* gmaps, virtual earth, yahoo maps, mapviewer
(Oracle), map server (ESRI), open layers
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Open MI Future
Business Rules and
Semantics and
Processing Graph vertex calculation,
Ontologies
weighted model linking.
Address
multiparametric problems like
“correlation of biofuels funding to crop
circles and food”
Probabilistic Algorithm
Nature
* run with expected output
* self feedback
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Civil Protection System
Open MI
uDig
Forest Fires,
Flooding
PostGIS WMS,WFS
Open Layers
jboss Portal
jboss SOA, ESB,Drools
Mobile Apps
Fleet
Management
WS
API
WD
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Q&A
Sunday, July 26, 2009