How can a country that's almost 10 million square kilometers in area and has a large percentage of the world's freshwater — and disparate jurisdictions responsible for that water — integrate water data collected at myriad source points? Canada's ResEau initiative is attempting to do just that, as it prototypes a new way of accessing and managing water information across jurisdictions through the use of open geospatial standards.
With the equivalent of only two full-time employees, a small contractual services budget, and a six-month time frame, the Technical Services Division of the City of Springfield, Oregon, has successfully implemented a robust surface waterway inventory system as part of an enterprisewide facilities management system.
A diverse group of experts convened in Washington, D.C., in Aprilto discuss the advantages of uniting sensor technologies with geospatial solutions. Jun 1, 2005 By:
Sam Bacharach
What will a global tsunami-warning system look like? It will be a Sensor Web, a collection of sensors on buoys in the world's ocean earthquake zones, wirelessly connected to a network. The sensors will continuously report their three-dimensional location as well as vertical motion and vibration. The network connecting the sensors will almost surely be the Internet, so that the sensors' real-time and stored outputs will be discoverable and accessible via Web browsers and other tools that use standard Web technologies.
