Earth science is at the forefront of applying advanced computing technology to the solution of pressing environmental problems. For instance, the bi-annual publication of the world’s top 500 supercomputers is dominated by applications in weather and climate modeling, and geosciences. Many of these grid infrastructures adopt a service-oriented architectural approach, exploiting the technologies of web services, and XML-based publishing of service and information metadata to catalogues or resource repositories. There is a strong analogy in such earth science grid architectures with spatial information infrastructures.
Recorded at Be Conference London 2007