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Data
Data can be shared, published, and integrated with other data at the Portal

Ws Tools

Tools
Tools can be registered, accessed, and downloaded for use

Ws Web

Web Services
Web services can be registered and invoked using a standard authentication system

Ws Knowledge

Knowledge Representation
Controlled vocabularies, hierarchies, and more complex relationships among scientific terms can be registered and accessed

Recent News

  • GEON at GSA (2008 Joint Meeting)
    GEON will host a booth (#124 on the ‘NSF Lane’ of the Exhibit Hall) at the upcoming GSA 2008 Joint Meeting in Houston, October 5-9th. Please plan to come by to learn about the project’s latest tools and developments, and to talk to team members. GEON presentations include:
    • “Geoscience Data Portals – Recommendation Systems Built from Monitoring Usage Patterns” (Poster, Sun, 10/5/08, 8-8:45 in Exhibit Hall E);
    • “Developing an OpenEarth Framework (OEF)”; Poster, Sun, 10/5/08, 8-8:45 a.m., Exhibit Hall E);
    GEON team members will also be giving demos at the EarthScope booth (#130):
    • “GeoEarthScope LiDAR Access and Visualizations”, Monday, 10/6, 10a.m.-12noon, by Chris Crosby, GEON LiDAR Project Manager;
    • “EarthScope Data Portal”, Tuesday, 10/7, 1-3 p.m., by Ashraf Memon, GEON Software Architect.
  • Navajo Technical College Hosts GEON Workshop
    GEON Team members Chaitan Baru, Ashraf Memon and Chris Crosby traveled to Navajo Technical College (NTC) in Crownpoint, NM to participate in a GEON-oriented workshop. GEON was joined by representatives from the TeraGrid Science Gateways program. The goal of the meeting was to discuss how GEON, as a TeraGrid Science Gateway, could be utilized in NTC classrooms. Initially, NTC will be installing a GEON node to connect them to the GEON system. Discussions about the future of the GEON/TeraGrid/NTC collaboration are in progress.
  • Northern California GeoEarthScope LiDAR Hillshades in Google Earth
    GEON, in collaboration with the USGS, has developed a Google Earth file (KMZ) that provides access to 1 meter resolution bare earth hillshades from the Northern California GeoEarthScope LiDAR topography dataset. By downloading this file and opening it in Google Earth, users are able to browse hillshades with two illumination angles (315 and 45 degrees) for faults in the northern San Andreas fault system. The Google Earth file remotely accesses data stored on GEON servers to allow users to seamlessly browse the full NoCal dataset from within Google Earth. Users can access the GEON Lidar portal at https://portal.geongrid.org/gridsphere/gridsphere?cid=geonlidartool&JavaScript=enabled.


    The GeoEarthScope Northern California LiDAR data were acquired as part of the EarthScope Facility project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Google Earth file was created by J. Luke Blair (lblair@usgs.gov - USGS, Earthquake Hazards Program) and Chris Crosby (ccrosby@sdsc.edu - GEON Project, San Diego Supercomputer Center).