Standards-Based Data and Information Systems for Earth Observations – An Introduction -- Use of NWGISS to Implement a Data Node in China’s Spatial Information Grid -- Data Integration Support to the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period Project (CEOP) -- Progress in OGC Web Services Interoperability Development -- Evolution of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Information System (EOSDIS) -- SCOOP Data Management: A Standards-Based Distributed Information System for Coastal Data Management -- A New Approach to Preservation Metadata for Scientific Data – A Real World Example -- Archive Standards: How Their Adoption Benefit Archive Systems -- An Association Rule Discovery System Applied to Geographic Data -- An Intelligent Archive Testbed Incorporating Data Mining -- Semantic Augmentations to an ebRIM Profile of Catalogue Service for the Web -- Geospatial Knowledge Discovery Using Semantic Web Services -- Accelerating Technology Adoption Through Community Endorsement.

This book aims at documenting recent developments in standard-based systems for processing, archiving, managing and distributing Earth Observation data and derived information products. On-going standards efforts that influence how these data and information systems operate are presented. Some recent developments in geospatial knowledge systems are discussed and a methodology to encourage technology infusion into operational systems is presented.