Software

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We are currently developing the following software:

• GeoStore - An Information System for Managing Geological Data:
  One of the GeoStore's main objectives is to provide a fast and comfortable interactive access to data required for future processing. To achieve this GeoStore combines standard data-browsing facilities with graphical retrieval by means of one of the embedded viewers.
  To find in the database an object required the user can begin with the traversal of links between objects within a browser loading when necessary objects of interest in a 2D/3D viewer. In the graphical viewer the user can detect relationships not obvious in the text format or even not explicitly represented within database, that considerably accelerate the navigation. The user can also begin the search directly with a graphical representation of objects stored in the database, e.g. with a 2D-map, loading when necessary non-geometric data associated with the object in the data browser.

  In general, a tight coupling between database and vizualization components is one of GeoStore's most characteristic feature. The user is able to switch at any moment between the data browser and any of the embedded 2D/3D-graphical viewers and vice versa.

• GeoToolKit:
  GeoToolKit is a C++ class library offering management of persistent spatial data. It primarily is intended to facilitate fast and easy development of scientific geo-applications. It provides spatial data types in 3D Euclidean space: 0D-3D simplexes, 1D-3D complexes and compound objects are supported as well as geometric operations, functions and predicates. In coming releases also 4D (3D + time) types will be available.

  Evolved from experiences with Geostore (an information system for geologically defined geometries), GeoToolKit has especially been designed to support geo-applications that manage large amounts of spatial data in connection with geometric functionality, such as fast spatial queries. Following the object-oriented modelling technique, the built-in general types, e.g. line segments, triangles and surfaces, can be used to model more specific real world entities, for example geological strata and faults. Applications of this kind simply use or inherit as much spatial functionality from GeoToolKit as needed.

  Another principle design feature of GeoToolKit is its tight coupling with the ODBMS ObjectStore^®, since we consider an ODBMS to be the most efficient way to handle spatial data types.
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• GeoWeb:
  GeoWeb opens GeoStore's databases and other GeoToolKit-compliant 3D-data stores for the Web. It is an example of an easy-to-use web-based interface providing access to GeoToolKit-based spatial databases. While any HTML and VRML browser makes a frontend, a GeoToolKit-based backend processes a variety of spatial query types.

• eXtensible Database Adapter (XDA):
  XDA opens access to GeoStore's and other GeoToolKit-compliant 3D-data stores for CORBA environment and for the Web. It is an experimental prototype that implements Distributed Orthogonal Persistence for the C++ platform, which is an approach to making application objects persist between program executions with the minimum possible effort required from the application programs themselves.