FOSS4G 2008: GRASS Development with Eclipse / CDT In the Distant Early Warning System (DEWS) Project
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GRASS Development with Eclipse / CDT In the Distant Early Warning System (DEWS) Project Peter Löwe GeoForschungsZentrum-Potsdam, DRZ, Telegrafenberg, D1473 Potsdam, Germany, Contact: [email protected] The tsunami disaster affecting the Indian Ocean region on Christmas 2004 demonstrated the short-comings in tsunami detection, public warning processes as well as intergovern-mental warning message exchange in the Indian Ocean region. The Distant Early Warning System (DEWS) Project - aims at strengthening the early warning capacities by building interoperable tsunami early warning systems. Of special importance is the distant communication of warning information among warning centres. The project complements the German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System-Project (GITEWS). Project-Partner INCO-Partner (Authority) INCO-Partner (Unive DEWS - Partner Distribution Southern Geological and Nuclear Sciences New Zealand Geological Survey & Mines Bureau, Sri Lanka Thai Meteorological Dept., Seismological Bureau, Thailand National Disaster Warning Cente International Affairs, Thailand Badan meteorologi& Geofisika Meteorological and Geophysical Agency BANA , Indonesia Ministry of Disaster Management & Human Rights, Disaster Management Centre, Sri Lanka Department of Disaster Preventi and Mitigation Thailand Bandung Institute of Technology Indonesia Moratuwa University, Dept. of Engineering, Sri Lanka Prince of Songkla University, Thailand Chiang Mai University, Thailand Northern Atos OriginSA ., Spain Coordinator GFZ Potsdam , Germany Saab AB (publ), Sweden DATAMAT S.p.A., Italy Helsinki University of Technology Communications Laboratory, Finland Citizen Alert Services BV , Netherlands National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan Swedish Rescue Services Agency, Sweden University of Bologna, Italy EngineeringIngegneria InformaticaS.p.A., Italy DEWS provides a Reference Model for interoperable tsunami early warning systems and applies the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. Based on an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) all resources (e.g. sensors) can be decoupled from proprietary access: •A Service Layer provides uniform access to resources •An Orchestration Layer to access workflows and processes for the early warning phase. The ESB concept is used in both the upstream and downstream part of DEWS. Motivation GRASS GIS is a valuable tool for complex data manipulation. It is often applied in the backend of a project to generate spatial data resources to be used with other software tools. The DEWS project requires siginifacnt amounts of spatial data resources. To establish reasonable production capacities, it is vital to have specifiv GRASS versions easily available on various platforms, preferably on different operating systems. Approach GRASS developers can use integrated development environment (IDE) for efficent code development and software deployment. For this, the example of Eclipse in conjunction with the C-Development Tool (CDT) is used. It can be used to show how to access, manage and compile the GRASS sourcecode independently from the platform via the IDE. Larger Picture For developers the short-term benefits of this approach are extended options for collaborative development, code refactoring and the wrapping of the traditional building-chain in ant-Code. The Potential In the last years, IDEs have increasingly become the standard approach to code development. Most programmers have become used to them and take them for granted. To lower the curb to join the active GRASS developer community and to extend and rejuvenate the community in the long term, IDE-based platform-independent GRASS- development will play a prominent role in the future. This will help to future-safe GRASS GIS as a community-driven FOSS GIS project. tree as represneetd in the Eclipse IDE. The frame in the middle shhows the ant-Code fragemnt which is used to execute front shows the GRASS splash screen of the software as it was called up right from the IDE.
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GRASS GIS is a valuable tool for complex data manipulation. It is often applied in the backend of a project to generate spatial data resources to be used with other software tools. The DEWS project requires siginifacnt amounts of spatial data resources. To establish reasonable production capacities, it is vital to have specifiv GRASS versions easily available on various platforms, preferably on different operating systems. GRASS developers can use integrated development environment (IDE) for efficent code development and software deployment. For this, the example of Eclipse in conjunction with the C-Development Tool (CDT) is used. It can be used to show how to access, manage and compile the GRASS sourcecode independently from the platform via the IDE. For developers the short-term benefits of this approach are extended options for collaborative development, code refactoring and the wrapping of the traditional building-chain in ant-Code. In the last years, IDEs have increasingly become the standard approach to code development. Most programmers have become used to them and take them for granted. To lower the curb to join the active GRASS developer community and to extend and rejuvenate the community in the long term, IDE-based platform-independent GRASS-development will play a prominent role in the future. This will help to future-safe GRASS GIS as a community-driven FOSS GIS project. The tsunami disaster affecting the Indian Ocean region on Christmas 2004 demonstrated the short-comings in tsunami detection, public warning processes as well as intergovern-mental warning message exchange in the Indian Ocean region. The Distant Early Warning System (DEWS) Project - aims at strengthening the early warning capacities by building interoperable tsunami early warning systems. DEWS provides a Reference Model for interoperable tsunami early warning systems and applies the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. Based on an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) all resources (e.g. sensors) can be decoupled from proprietary access: A Service Layer provides uniform access to resources An Orchestration Layer to access workflows and processes for the early warning phase. The ESB concept is used in both the upstream and downstream part of DEWS. Of special importance is the distant communication of warning information among warning centres. The project complements the German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System-Project (GITEWS).
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GRASS Development with Eclipse / CDTIn the Distant Early Warning System (DEWS) Project
Peter Löwe
GeoForschungsZentrum-Potsdam, DRZ, Telegrafenberg, D1473 Potsdam, Germany, Contact: [email protected]
The tsunami disaster affecting the Indian Ocean region on Christmas 2004 demonstrated the short-comings in tsunami detection, public warning processes as well as intergovern-mental warning message exchange in the Indian Ocean region. The Distant Early Warning System (DEWS) Project - aims at strengthening the early warning capacities by building interoperable tsunami early warning systems.
Of special importance is the distant communication of warning information among warning centres. The project complements the German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System-Project (GITEWS).
Project-Partner INCO-Partner (Authority) INCO-Partner (University)
- DEWS Partner Distribution Southern
Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand
Geological Survey & Mines Bureau, Sri Lanka
Thai Meteorological Dept., Seismological Bureau, Thailand
National Disaster Warning Center, International Affairs, Thailand
Badan meteorologi & Geofisika Meteorological and Geophysical
Agency BANA , Indonesia
Ministry of Disaster Management & Human Rights, DisasterManagement Centre , Sri Lanka
Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Thailand
Bandung Institute of Technology,Indonesia
Moratuwa University, Dept. of Engineering, Sri Lanka
Prince of Songkla University,Thailand
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Northern
Atos Origin SA ., SpainCoordinator
GFZ Potsdam , Germany
Saab AB ( publ ), Sweden
DATAMAT S.p.A. , Italy
Helsinki University of Technology Communications Laboratory,
Finland
Citizen Alert Services BV,Netherlands
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster
Prevention, Japan
Swedish Rescue Services Agency, Sweden
University of Bologna, Italy
Engineering IngegneriaInformatica S.p.A. , Italy
DEWS provides a Reference Model for interoperable tsunami early warning systems and applies the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. Based on an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) all resources (e.g. sensors) can be decoupled from proprietary access: •A Service Layer provides uniform access to resources •An Orchestration Layer to access workflows and processes for the early warning phase.The ESB concept is used in both the upstream and downstream part of DEWS.
Motivation
GRASS GIS is a valuable tool for complex data manipulation. It is often applied in the backend of a project to generate spatial data resources to be used with other software tools. The DEWS project requires siginifacnt amounts of spatial data resources. To establish reasonable production capacities, it is vital to have specifiv GRASS versions easily available on various platforms, preferably on different operating systems.
Approach
GRASS developers can use integrated development environment (IDE) for efficent code development and software deployment. For this, the example of Eclipse in conjunction with the C-Development Tool (CDT) is used. It can be used to show how to access, manage and compile the GRASS sourcecode independently from the platform via the IDE.
Larger Picture
For developers the short-term benefits of this approach are extended options for collaborative development, code refactoring and the wrapping of the traditional building-chain in ant-Code.
The Potential
In the last years, IDEs have increasingly become the standard approach to code development. Most programmers have become used to them and take them for granted. To lower the curb to join the active GRASS developer community and to extend and rejuvenate the community in the long term, IDE-based platform-independent GRASS-development will play a prominent role in the future. This will help to future-safe GRASS GIS as a community-driven FOSS GIS project.
Example of the GRASS source tree as represneetd in the Eclipse IDE. The frame in the middle shhows the ant-Code fragemnt which is used to execute the gRASS build process. The front shows the GRASS splash screen of the software as it was called up right from the IDE.
