SEDRIS

SEDRIS is an infrastructure technology that enables information technology applications to express, understand, share, and reuse environmental data. SEDRIS technologies provide the means to represent environmental data (terrain, ocean, air and space), and promote the unambiguous, loss-less and non-proprietary interchange of environmental data... To achieve the first, SEDRIS offers a data representation model, augmented with its environmental data coding specification and spatial reference model, so that one can articulate one's environmental data clearly, while also using the same representation model to understand others' data unambiguously. Therefore, the data representation aspect of SEDRIS is about capturing and communicating meaning and semantics... In this regard, SEDRIS does not try to judge, side with, separate, or distinguish how various domains use environmental data. Instead, SEDRIS provides a unifying mechanism for all of them to describe (and subsequently share) such..