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A geospatial web portal for sharing and analyzing greenhouse gas data derived from satellite remote sensing images

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Greenhouse gas data collected by different institutions throughout the world have significant scientific values for global climate change studies. Due to the diversity of data formats and different specifications of data access interfaces, most of those data should be first downloaded onto a local machine before they can be used. To overcome this limitation, we present a geospatial web portal for sharing and analyzing greenhouse gas data derived from remote sensing images. As a proof-of-concept, a prototype has also been designed and implemented. The workflow of the web portal contains four processes: data access, data analysis, results visualization, and results output. A large volume of greenhouse gas data have been collected, described, and indexed in the portal, and a variety of data analysis services, such as calculating the temporal variation of regionally averaged column CO2 values and analyzing the latitudinal variations of globally averaged column CO2 values, are integrated into this portal. With the integrated geospatial data and services, researchers can collect and analyze greenhouse gas data online, and can preview and download the analysis results directly from the web portal. The geospatial web portal has been implemented as a web application, and we also used a study case to illustrate this framework.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China

    Hao Lin, Bailang Yu, Zuoqi Chen, Yan Huang, Jianping Wu, Bin Wu & Rong Ge

  2. Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

    Yingjie Hu

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Hao Lin received the B.S. degree in Geographical Information System from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 2010. She is currently a master student in Cartography and Geographical Information System at Department of Geography, East China Normal University. Her current research interests focus on Development of Web GIS and Remote Sensing.

Bailang Yu received the B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China in 2002 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education) and Department of Geography, East China Normal University. His research interests include object-oriented analysis for remotely sensed images, LiDAR, Urban Remote Sensing, and GIS (Geographical Information System). His recent research projects have been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China.

Zuoqi Chen received the B. S. degree in Geographical Information System from Fujian Normal University, China, in 2011. He is currently a master student in Cartography and Geographical Information System at Department of Geography, East China Normal University. His current research interests focus on GIS software development.

Yingjie Hu received the M.S. degree in Geographical Information System from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 2009. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Geography of the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. His current research interests focus on Geospatial semantics, Personal GIS, Semantic Web, Semantic Desktop, and mobile computing.

Yan Huang received the B.S. degree in Geographical Information System from Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China, in 2010. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Cartography and Geographical Information System at Department of Geography, East China Normal University. Her current research interests focus on object-oriented analysis for remotely sensed images and LiDAR.

Jianping Wu received the B. S. degree from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China in 1983, the M. S. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 1996. He is currently a Professor of Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education) and Department of Geography, East China Normal University. His research interests include Geographical Information System Development and Remote Sensing Application.

Bin Wu received the B. S. degree in Geographical Information System from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 2011. He is currently a master student in Cartography and Geographical Information System at Department of Geography, East China Normal University. His current research interests focus on Geographical Information System Development and Remote Sensing.

Rong Ge is currently an undergraduate student in Geographic Science at Department of Geography, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

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Lin, H., Yu, B., Chen, Z. et al. A geospatial web portal for sharing and analyzing greenhouse gas data derived from satellite remote sensing images. Front. Earth Sci. 7, 295–309 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-013-0365-z

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