Geoinformatics and sustainable development

Part 1

Michael Zgurovsky, Alexei Gvishiani, Vitaliy Starostenko,Kostiantyn Yefremov, Alexei Pasichny, Nataliya Sergeeva

Decision of National academy of sciences (NAS) of Ukraine, Ministry of education and science (MES) of Ukraine and Geophysical Center of Russian academy of sciences (GC RAS)from April 3, 2006

Agreement about partnership, collaboration, and science exchange between Institute for applied systems (IASA) and Geophysical Center of RAS from May 17 2006

WDC for Physics of solid Earth

WDC for Solar-Terrestrial Physics

UbWDC for Geoinformaticsand Sustainable Development

GeophysicalCenter of RAS

Institute for appliedsystems analysis

NAS and MOS

WDC B

ICSU – International council for science

Australia (1), Belgium (2), China (9),Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (3),India (1), Japan (8), Netherlands (1),Russia (7), United Kingdom(3), USA (15)

Total: 52 WDCs

Initial stage of UbWDC creation

Joint projects◦ Development of artificial intelligence technique for

system prevision of complex anthropogenic and natural systems’ behavior

◦ Development of World Data Centers network for study of fundamental basis of intricate natural and antropogenic systems global modeling

Russian-Ukrainian Seminar on UbWDCdevelopment on April 24-26 2008

Data◦ who gives it? (data suppliers)

◦ how is it passed? (infrastructure)

◦ how is it stored? (data model, software and hardware solutions)

◦ who uses it? (data users)

Services◦ still inventing

Sustainable developmentProf. Michael ZgurovskyInstitute for applied systems analysis of NAS

GeoinformaticsProf. Vitaliy StarostenkoInstitute of geophysics of NAS◦ Solid Earth Physics

◦ Solar Terrestrial Physics

◦ Oceanography

Data collection and processing◦ Environmental data◦ Economic and social data◦ Geophysical data◦ Data mining

Data services◦ Global simulations and modeling◦ Databases◦ Geographic information systems◦ Software development◦ Internet service◦ Information service

http://wdc.org.ua