Title :
Advanced Infrastructure for Enabling Collaborative Research in a Wide Area Network
Author :
Mazzetti, Paolo ; Simoniello, Tiziana ; Lanfredi, Maria ; Macchiato, Francesca ; Nativi, Stefano ; Bigagli, Lorenzo ; Cuomo, Vincenzo
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Methodologies for Environ. Anal., CNR, Tito Scalo
Abstract :
In the field of environmental sciences, collaborative research is often a necessary approach to join the required technical and human resources which are located in different sites. The information and communication technologies (ICT) can provide effective tools for enabling such cooperation through the development of a dedicated computer and network infrastructure (CNI). In this paper a case-study relative to the collaboration between two research centers in the south of Italy is presented and discussed. The design and development of a new infrastructure providing specific services dedicated to the geo-spatial data interoperability in the context of a land degradation application is described
Keywords :
research initiatives; wide area networks; collaborative research; dedicated computer network infrastructure; geo-spatial data interoperability; information and communication technology; land degradation application; wide area network; Communications technology; Computer networks; Degradation; Humans; Monitoring; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Satellites; Vegetation; Water resources; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies, 2006. ICTTA '06. 2nd
Conference_Location :
Damascus
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9521-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICTTA.2006.1684397
