iGEON-India: An International Collaborative Activity of the GEON Project

As part of this collaborative activity, three GEON workshops have been held at the University of Hyderabad, with the most recent one held on Jan 5-11, 2009. The workshops are targeted towards geoscientists and introduce the features and capabilities of GEON and present the technical architecture from a programmer as well as user perspective, followed by hands-on experience. Topics covered included concepts and details of cyberinfrastructure and service-oriented architectures, geoscience applications based on LiDAR and topographic data; geospatial/GIS data; web services, and the GEON Open Earth Framework.