GEOCAB Portal: A gateway for discovering and accessing capacity building resources in Earth Observation |
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| Institution: | 1. Environment and Earth Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Alicante, Section 99, Alicante E-03080, Spain;2. Earth Physics and Thermodynamics Department, Faculty of Physics, University of Valencia, Doctor Moliner, 50, Burjassot, Valencia 46100, Spain;3. Geography Department, Faculty of Geography and History, University of Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 28, Valencia 46010, Spain;1. University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil;2. State University of Northern Paraná (UENP), Bandeirantes, Paraná, Brazil;3. Instituto Tecnológico Vale (ITV), Belém, Pará, Brazil;4. University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA;1. Key Lab of Marine Environmental Science and Ecology, Ministry of Education, College of Environment Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China;2. Global Institute for Water Security, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The discovery of and access to capacity building resources are often essential to conduct environmental projects based on Earth Observation (EO) resources, whether they are Earth Observation products, methodological tools, techniques, organizations that impart training in these techniques or even projects that have shown practical achievements. Recognizing this opportunity and need, the European Commission through two FP7 projects jointly with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) teamed up with the Committee on Earth observation Satellites (CEOS). The Global Earth Observation CApacity Building (GEOCAB) portal aims at compiling all current capacity building efforts on the use of EO data for societal benefits into an easily updateable and user-friendly portal. GEOCAB offers a faceted search to improve user discovery experience with a fully interactive world map with all inventoried projects and activities. This paper focuses on the conceptual framework used to implement the underlying platform. An ISO19115 metadata model associated with a terminological repository are the core elements that provide a semantic search application and an interoperable discovery service. The organization and the contribution of different user communities to ensure the management and the update of the content of GEOCAB are addressed. |
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| Keywords: | Capacity building Earth observations User needs Discovery service Semantic search Resource facility |
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