Integrated environmental intelligence can be described as the capability of a system to access, process, visualise and share data (spatial and non-spatial), metadata and models from various domains relating to land-use/cover, biodiversity, atmosphere as well as socio-economic aspects of the city for various purposes.
However, the concepts could also be applied to other domains that have non-spatial, metadata-based and time-oriented project data, such as source files of a software project.
The system architecture described here will be built on the versatile WILDSPACE™ Decision Support System (hereafter referred to as 'WILDSPACE DSS') and will be web-based consisting of distributed servers (database servers, web servers and map servers) providing different kinds of information including species and habitat data, geo-spatial data, metadata, web services and decision support analyses.
Part of the COBWEB framework is hosted on a simplified GeoCat Live environment [15], a quick-path solution for publishing spatial data and metadata on the cloud (see Fig. 4).
It contains tools for editing and the management of spatial data and services metadata, and other sources (documents, websites, etc).. MICKA is used as metadata catalogue in the OTN project, and also for instance in the Czech national INSPIRE geo portal.
ITW uses a RDF/XML model for semantic representation of metadata and spatial and temporal relations between Web resources.
Finally, the article explains how to optimize metadata and spatial data infrastructure strategy for a successful and sustainable system as well as highlights some emerging trends in the geospatial and general information technology fields that will likely impact future use of these concepts.
Metadata harmonization of spatial and non-spatial datasets and services is essential to enable a uniform way of querying metadata.
Users can navigate spatial layers and explore layer metadata using StarTree hyperbolic tree software.
The metadata design from a spatial decision support system (SDSS) is presented along with illustrations showing how the design addresses specific knowledge management (KM) problems.
