INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GIS INTEROPERABLITY GIS INTEROPERABLITY

APPLICATIONAPPLICATION

FACULTY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (FTMK)FACULTY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (FTMK)THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA MELAKA (UTeM)THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA MELAKA (UTeM)

PO BOX 1200 AYER KEROH, 75450 MELAKA PO BOX 1200 AYER KEROH, 75450 MELAKA

MALAYSIAMALAYSIA

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FTMK GIS GroupFTMK GIS Group

Introduction

Research project has been conducted under the framework of the KUTKM Research Grant and e Science Fund.

GIS within last few decades, GIS has been proved as “a powerful research tool” to provide timely predefined information.

GIS as a powerful analytical and visualization tools: Landslide Study

What is the What is the Problem with the Problem with the issue of lack of issue of lack of

I nteroperability?Interoperability?

Application of GIS in Orangutans habitat

CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FOREST FOR ORANG UTAN

HABITAT

The rivers/

Water supply

Endangered Vegetation distribution study

What is the Problem with the issue of

lack of Interoperability?

Why shouldn’t different GIS users share or collect …..

Spatial data acquisition : Costly Re-digitalizes data: Precision

and accuracy, editing spatial data is problematic

Import, export and conversion: Loosing to much information

GIS interoperability problems

Many GIS users using different GIS platforms and advancement in Internet technology can not be fully utilized due to lack of interoperability.

There is still “lack of perfect union” between the functionality of two more different GIS platforms.

Even using same platform also rises up similar problem “due to differences” in the conceptual data models, semantic meaning, data collection scheme and quality of parameters used.

GIS Interoperability Problems…con’t

Reveal the needs of interoperability, between two or more different GIS platforms.

System Interoperability System Interoperability DefinedDefined

Exchange-Sharing Data/Information1

2

3

R & R

R & R R & R

R & R = Request & Respond

GIS Interoperability

Exchanging of GIS data

Request

Respond

LEVEL OF INTEROPERABILITYLEVEL OF INTEROPERABILITY

Concept of Interoperability Concept of Interoperability at application levelat application level

• Integration of software componentIntegration of software component– Capability of software to communicate with Capability of software to communicate with

each othereach other– This communication regardless of This communication regardless of

•VendorVendor•Platform orPlatform or•System architectureSystem architecture

• User will able to use data and software service User will able to use data and software service at any time and any where across the at any time and any where across the boundaries.boundaries.

Concept of Interoperability at Concept of Interoperability at application levelapplication level

The spatial information sharing or interoperability is referred to inter-application process control within distributed collection of different platform GIS users, data, software, and hardware.

GIS Interoperability Modules

Module 1: User Focusing on the technical aspect of achieving

interoperability such as protocol, semantic translator, file format and technical solution used

Module 2 : Resources Discovery Server moduleMetadata format, vocabulary use and semantic dictionary

Module 3: GIS service provider Address organizational and operational aspect Agreement of data exchange, Rule for data access and Rule of data

Current progressCurrent progress

• Interoperability at application levelsInteroperability at application levels• The development two of GIS The development two of GIS

interoperability infrastructure: interoperability infrastructure: named as A named as A Resources Discovery Resources Discovery ServerServer and and Semantic Translator Semantic Translator EngineEngine which facilitate end GIS user which facilitate end GIS user to search, locate and retrieve the to search, locate and retrieve the require spatial information.require spatial information.

Resources discovery Resources discovery server (RDS)server (RDS)

• Objective of RDS: Using Open Objective of RDS: Using Open SourcesSources– Simplicity Simplicity – TransparentTransparent– Open Open – Independent Independent – Secure and effectiveSecure and effective– UniversalUniversal– Data management Data management

Metadata

Data about data Gained trust from user as indexing

tools particularly since the advent of large scale repositories on Internet.

Provide important background information about dataset such as What it is Where and where it was compiled Who collect the information

Conclusions related to systems

interoperability Each service provider or data owners

such as government, commercial entities, educational institutes, news organization and general public has to register (publish) by means of metadata to the catalogue to permit accessibility.

Conclusions related to RDS

Database engine Simplify the process of application

connection. Concern on data access among different

places and time. RDS employs clients to DBMS server

architecture to facilitate cross platform communication to the server from client side driver.

danks & tot zien

From,Faculty Of Information and Communication Technology (FTMK),KUTKM