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Introducing the LTER Spatial Data Workbench

John Vande Castle, LTER Network Office

As part of a continuing collaboration with the San Diego Super Computer Center at UC San Diego, the Network Office (John Vande Castle and Deana Pennington) has been funded for to further enhance LTER spatial data access and processing. The funding, from the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) will be used to include data integration and processing algorithms within the LTER “Spatial Data Workbench” (SDW). This will include the capability to incorporate additional data sets such as topography, climatic variables and species data, and additional analysis and mining procedures for deriving knowledge from these new collections using web-based tools. The SDW incorporates GIS datasets, primarily remote sensing data, acquired for the LTER Network. In addition to Landsat, AVHRR and MODIS data, the SDW will contain hyperspectral AVIRIS data for the Sevilleta, Jornada, Konza Prairie, H.J Andrews and Harvard Forest LTER sites thanks to LTER collaborators Greg Azner and Carol Wessman (SEV and JRN), Doug Goodin (KNZ), Warren Cohen (AND) and Mary Martin (HFR). Further information at:
http://www.lternet.edu/technology/sdw/