Towards Utilisation of the Grid in Advanced Environmental Decision Support.
Mineter Mike, SKOULOUDIS Andreas nikolaos · Joint Research Centre (European Commission) · 2002
INTRODUCTION This paper explores the impact that new Internet-based computing paradigms will make upon environmental decision support systems (DSS). Emerging Grid technologies will enable powerful and flexible DSS that integrate models, GIS, data collection, archiving and data mining with resources in computation and data storage. To illustrate the possibilities, air quality modelling is considered, focussing upon the development of DSS intended to reduce the magnitude and frequency of major pollution events in the urban environment. The move to Grid-based DSS will accentuate issues already critical in changing the use of a model from research to DSS mode.