Digital Earth Conference 2015, Canada

"Towards a One-World Vision for the Blue Planet" was the slogan for the 9th Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) from 5th - 9th of October, 2015, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

At Digital Earth 2015 scientists, engineers, technologists, and environmental managers from around the world will meet to share concepts, research findings, technologies, and practical applications relating to the Digital Earth vision. *()

I presented an experimental approach towards integrating scientific legacy codes into the OGC web services framework, on the example of exposing USGS MODFLOW through a vanilla and open source WPS (without using proprietary tools like ESRI Arc Server and Arc Hydro Tools etc).

I was very honoured and greatly appreciated the "Best Student Poster" award. It seems I really had the right audience at ISDE.

Furthermore it was extremely informative, and in the session about "Discrete Global Grid Systems" I learned a lot about this new approach of unifying traditional raster/coverage data with an equal area per pixel advantage ... one of the great shortfalls of todays popular Web Mercator projections. In fact spinning this further it could be a  great new approach and how groundwater, geology, ocean modelling and atmospheric sciences, which would benefit from an equal volume grid, particularly when re-mashing resources from different environmental/scientific/governmental/industrial domains.

There is even an DGGS OGC Standards Working Group on the way.