The iEnvironment Platform: Developing an Open Science Software Platform for Integrated Environmental Monitoring and Modeling of Surface Water
This provides a domain-specific solution for researchers and engineers in environmental science, enabling better handling of big data for surface water studies, but it is incremental as it builds on existing open science and software development concepts.
The paper tackles the challenge of integrated environmental monitoring and modeling of surface water by developing iEnvironment, an open science software platform that facilitates access to open data resources and research collaboration across disciplines, resulting in a tool that supports the creation, sharing, analysis, and maintenance of big and open data.
This paper describes the development of iEnvironment, an open science software platform that supports monitoring and modeling of aspects of surface water. The platform supports science and engineering research, especially in the context of the creation, sharing, analysis and maintenance of big and open data. In this era of big data, iEnvironment facilitates access to open data resources and research collaboration among science and research disciplines supported by computer scientists and software developers.