Providing an infrastructure to join up multiple stages and actors in a supply chain needs to focus on connectivity of the "virtual organisation" and how the users can discover, order and exploit the information products.
SciSys has been working in developing the use of collaborative technologies that allow data and information to pass from one system to another despite any differences in the software used or the computer type.
Good examples are the use of
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards for moving and accessing mapping data across the internet
- GRID, a set of tools to allow users to use computing resources and access data seamlessly across high speed data links
Technology that allows the user to explore and exploit the information is also important. SciSys is using low cost Geographic Information System (GIS) components to provide visualisation tools for Terrafirma and are working on systems that allow users to visualise when the next available image will be available from a constellation of satellites.
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