[GRASS-user] LandEx - web service based on GRASS

[Pawel Netzel]

Dear Colleagues!

We would like to present a first version of our new web service with
GRASS as a calculation engine. The LandEx is a search
and retrieval tool that we are developing in Space Information Lab
(http://http://sil.uc.edu/). at University of Cincinnati.

The LandEx user interface works in an internet browser environment and
is based on following JavaScript libraries: ExtJS with GeoExt and OpenLayers.
Through this interface you have access to our new GARSS module r.retreival
prepared perform quick search on very large datasets (currently 164000 x
104000 cells). To get more information about the project see papers and
documentation available on SIL webpage.

The tool is currently under development. Only US landuse/landcover 30 m
resolution datatset is available. More layers including world-wide
geomorphometry are planned to be added soon. The source code of our
GRASS modules will be published consequently as they reach enough
maturity.

It looks that people are interested in such tool like LandEx:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/09/search-engine-landscapes/3390/

We will greatly appreciate for comments and suggestion for further
development.

Pawel Nezel, Jarek Jasiewicz & The SIL Team