Objective
GIMMI (Geographic Information and Mathematical Models Inter-operability) aims at bridging the gap in Pesticide Impact Assessment domain between Data/Service Providers, Scientists and Final Users by:
- allowing the inter-operability via web of GI environmental protection services physically distributed and locally managed and maintained by their own inventors and generators- providing the proper IT structures to represent and manage temporal knowledge inside a GI system;
- integrating in the IT infrastructure state-of-the-art legacy systems for document management and report generation.
GIMMI will support 3 kinds of services:
On-line Data Access, when the user seeks to ""drill down"" into the huge amount of GI distributed in different formats and in different sites;
On-line Simulation, when the amount of data involved and the time required to answer allow it;
Off-line Study, when the requested services require huge amounts of data, long time or human experts.
Objectives:
The role of Geographic Information in environmental protection has always been considered of key importance by local and central governments for a real success and explosion of any information and citizens protection service.
Current drawbacks on citizen demands for inter-operable data and services in the environmental domain have hurdled their adoption and proliferation:
Lack of a real inter-operability platform, intended as the capability of building a neutral representation for describing GI-based services, like those implemented by environmental protection mathematical models, decision support and risk assessment systems;
Lack of a real representation and management of temporal knowledge;
Lack of a real integration of GI with Legacy Systems, and in particular, with data and document management systems, report generation systems. In some environmental protection domains, like in the Pesticide Impact Assessment, no initiatives exist at all due to the complexity, multi-disciplinarily and geographical distribution of the competencies.
The GIMMI project will develop:
- A GIS-based GUI system to capture and interpret all the user's interactions;
- A dynamic multi-channel Web/Wap interface for a direct access to the services by fixed and mobile devices;
- An On-line Analyser which will be in charge for all the GIMMI on-line services;
- An Off-line Query Builder which is in charge to perform complex studies;
- Both the On-line and Off-line Service Managers will be interfaced with an E-commerce engine;
- A Metadata repository will govern all the services provided by GIMMI.
Work description:
The Consortium intends to work according to a rapid prototyping approach, which will deliver an integrated early prototype version of the system by mid-project. The second phase of the Project will deliver the GIMMI Final Prototype and develop the two demonstrative applications. As part of WP1, user scenarios and requirements will be elicited. The project co-ordinator TXT will support Users in translating the results of the analysis of their domains into user requirements. Moreover, a Technological and Methodological study shall be conducted in parallel by the Research-oriented partners, in order on one side to identify and assess the last technological solutions provided by the market; on the other side to better position the project inside a methodological, theoretical and scientific framework. WP2 will focus both on the detailed specification and architectural design of the GIMMI Suite. Task 2.1 shall deal with the specification of system requirements and usage scenario, while T2.2 shall proceed with the architectural choices and identify the modular decomposition of each single GIMMI tool.
All responsible IT partners will conduct development of the 1st prototype of the GIMMI modules independently in WP3 tasks:
Task 3.1 shall develop the GIS-based multi-channel GUI;
Task 3.2 will develop the On-line Analyser;
Task 3.3 shall develop the Off-line Query Builder;
Task 3.4 will develop the inter-operability platform between GI and non-GI systems.
WP4 will be dedicated to integration and testing of the GIMMI 1st prototypes. In WP5 the GIMMI pilot installations will be implemented, based on feedback provided by the testing and validation efforts in WP4, according to an iterative development approach. In WP5, special attention will be placed to create two customised pilots who will meet as much as possible the generalised requirements defined in WP1. WP6 will be dedicated to continuous assessment and evaluation of the whole project, assuming the role of Quality Assurance WP. All partners will be active in WP7 for Dissemination and Exploitation of project results, and they are committed to prepare, before the end of the project, a detailed business plan and to implement it after the project termination. In WP8 a sound Project Management will be granted by TXT, with support of all partners in the consortium.
Milestones:
M6 User Requirements, Models, System Specifications and System Design;
M12 1st Prototypes (individual modules), First Results from Dissemination and Exploitation;
M15 1st Prototype (Integrated), Early Testing and Evaluation, Revised Specifications and Design;
M24 Test Cases, Results from Dissemination and Exploitation;
M30 Demonstrators Evaluation, Final Results from Dissemination and Exploitation. The main GIMMI result will be the promotion of Integrated, more eco-compatible Crop Management systems in Agriculture.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- humanities arts architectural design
- social sciences economics and business business and management commerce e-commerce
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture agronomy
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics mathematical model
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