Abstract

Exploring Enterprise GIS and Grid Computing: An EU-Funded Project "SCIER'
Track: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
Author(s): Jorg Schaller

"SCIER" Sensors & Computing Infrastructure for Hazards Monitoring is an European funded research project EC/IST/ICT for environmental risks conducted by the Technical University of Athens and supported by the Technical University of Munich.

The value of integrating computational modeling and GIS has been vividly demonstrated in recent natural disasters around the world. In this sense, SCIER within its GIS module explores the integration possibilities between GI science and GRID technology. The goal of SCIER is to make the much neglected URI zone safer for the European citizens against any type of natural hazards or accidents. SCIER uses the state of the art computation technologies in GRID and GIS and the spatial results are visualized on SCIER's GIS platform by exploring GRID technology (an innovative approach to mathematical environmental modeling). At this point of the development the most advanced and available GIS technology in a form of Esri Enterprise GIS solutions.

Jorg Schaller
Esri Geoinformatik GmbH
Ringstrasse 7
Kranzberg , Bavaria 85402
Germany
Phone: +49 (-0172) -89-13518
E-mail: j.schaller@Esri-Germany.de