The I-GUIDE Platform is a pioneering cyberinfrastructure designed to empower geospatial data-intensive convergence science and knowledge discovery across various disciplines. By integrating data, domain expertise, and educational resources, the platform enables researchers and practitioners to address complex geospatial and environmental challenges. This paper provides an overview of the platform’s motivation, architecture, principles, and applications, demonstrating how it fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and enhances geospatial data-intensive convergence research and education.
The rapid expansion of geospatial data—characterized by its volume, velocity, variety, variability, and veracity—presents both opportunities and challenges. This type of data, often heterogeneous in syntactic, semantic, spatial, and temporal dimensions, originates from diverse sources, including social and news media, remote sensing, and individual contributors. The I-GUIDE Platform has been developed to harness this data, ensuring interoperability, privacy, and security while promoting distributed access and scalable integration for scientific and policy-oriented applications.
Visit I-GUIDE Platform at https://platform.i-guide.io.
Sponsored by: National Science Foundation (NSF)
People: Erick Li, Furqan Baig, Yunfan Kang, Shaowen Wang
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