[Ica-osgeo-labs] ICA-OSGeo Labs Node Participation Interest

[Helena Mitasova]

Jorge and Tom,

it is exciting to welcome ISRIC - World Soil Information to the ICA-OSGeo Labs Network.
I have added you to the list of the nodes as #45 here (see the Table)
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives
and I would like to ask you to create an account on this OSGeo wiki (the link is in the top right corner),
make any corrections to your info and please add your coordinates so that your
location can be added to the map.

Thank you and welcome again, Helena
 
Helena Mitasova
Associate Professor
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
hmitaso at ncsu.edu

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On Oct 2, 2013, at 5:41 AM, Jorge de Jesus wrote:

> Dear Suchith Anand
> 
> 
> ISRIC - World Soil Information is an independent, science-based
> foundation, located in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
> Our institute collect, organizes and distributes soil soil data through
> our own IT system or patterns infrastructures. Our institute also has
> strong Educational component with a soil museum and with several
> educational programs
> 
> We would like to participate in ICA-OSGeo Lab Network since:
> 
> A) Open Source development support
> 
> ISRIC is a strong supporter of soil community using R programming:
> 
> http://gsif.isric.org/doku.php?id=wiki:about
> 
> We have several staff members that participate in R projects and release
> their code as R packages (GSIF and plotKML packages).
> 
> Other staff members have broad experience in OGC web services (e.g WPS)
> and currently give support to projects like pyWPS.
> 
> B) Team members
> 
> ISRIC has a strong team in the field geo-informatics, geostatistics and
> soil mapping,  with team members publishing serveral publications a year
> on the topic.
> For example:
> http://www.isric.org/staff/Dr%20T%20%28Tom%29%20Hengl
> http://www.isric.org/staff/Dr%20ir%20GBM%20%28Gerard%29%20Heuvelink
> http://www.isric.org/staff/Dr%20ir%20B%20%28Bas%29%20Kempen
> 
> C) ISRIC training
> 
> ISRIC clear policy concerning training with a wide range of educational
> programs and visiting researchers
> http://www.isric.org/services/training-and-education
> 
> Our training is based on opensource tools either R or GIS and we promote
> the usage of open source tools to our trainees.
> 
> 
> D) IT capacity
> 
> ISRIC has a dynamic IT infrastructure for distribution/collection of data.
> http://www.worldgrids.org/doku.php
> http://worldsoilprofiles.org
> http://worldsoilprofiles.org/en-us/profile/search/#search
> 
> webservice support:
> http://wms.isric.org/geoserver/web/
> http://www.isric.org/data/wprocessservice
> 
> and metadata search:
> http://meta2.isric.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
> 
> 
> E) OGC Member
> 
> As of June 2013, ISRIC is a register OGC member
> http://www.isric.org/content/isric-registered-ogc-member
> 
> 
> Looking forward to listen from you and to discuss the recognition of
> ISRIC as a OSGLab
> 
> Yours
> Jorge de Jesus
> -- 
> ISRIC - World Soil Information Post: PO box 353, 6700 AJ, Wageningen,
> The Netherlands Visiting Address: Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB
> Wageningen (Bdg. 101), Office: C.013 Office Phone: +31 (0) 317 4 83715
> Mobile Phone: +31 (0) 613 9 06950 OpenPGPKey: 0xA3D0065A
>