Web-cam’s potential for collaborative activities in the Earth sciences |
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| Authors: | Benjamin J Kadlec David A Yuen Xili L Yang Evan F Bollig Yunsong Wang Gordon Erlebacher and Maxwell Rudolph |
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| Institution: | (1) Dept. of Geology and Geophysics and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0219, USA;(2) School of Computational Sciences and Information Technology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4120, USA;(3) Dept. of Geology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA |
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| Abstract: | We report here our experiences from using easily acquired web-cam components for collaborative ventures in the Earth sciences. We have used a variety of hardware and different software. We demonstrate from various locations in the U.S.A. the feasibility of using web-cam in multitudinous activities, relevant for conducting research and knowledge dissemination. We summarize the quality of the connections from the various combinations of communicating parties. Today, web-cams can be utilized as an economical and viable means of point-to-point communication in the Earth science community. Greater bandwidth is sorely needed for activities such as multi-party conferencing on the present internet network. We propose that web-cam can be readily deployed as a web-service for facilitating collaborative research over the GRID infrastructure, using the middleware Narada-Brokering. Web-cam will play an important role in the emerging field of geoinformatics. |
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