GEON

The Geosciences Network: Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences The goal of GEON is to advance the field of geoinformatics to prepare and train current and future generations of geoscience researchers, educators, and practitioners in the use of cyberinfrastructure to further their research, education, and professional goals. Geoinformatics will foster new interdisciplinary research, for example, the gravity modeling of 3D geological features, such as plutons; study of active tectonics by integrating LiDAR data and geodynamics models; and, study of lithospheric structure and properties across diverse tectonic environments. GEON is based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with support for “intelligent” search, semantic data integration, visualization of 4D scientific datasets, and access to high performance computing platforms for data analysis and model execution -- via the GEON Portal. While focused on Earth Sciences, GEON cyberinfrastructure is generic and broadly applicable to a variety of other sciences and other application domains.

The link address is: http://www.geongrid.org/