System and methods for provisioning geospatial data

A method of provisioning geospatial data comprising:

• searching for a plurality of raw data sets corresponding to a user query;
• defining business logic rules corresponding to a user specified output data set, the business logic rules indicative of at least one operation and corresponding operation, the operation applicable to the attributes;
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• generating the output data set responsive to the user query by applying the operations specified by the business logic rules to the applicable attributes in the plurality of data sets.

A method of providing geospatial data to a user comprising:

• identifying a plurality of raw geospatial data sets, the raw geospatial data sets having metadata and attributes, identifying including retrieving metadata corresponding to each of the raw geospatial data sets;
• receiving, from a user, an indication of raw geospatial data sets corresponding to an area of interest, identifying based on the retrieved metadata;
• identifying, from business logic rules, a plurality of operations operable on the raw geospatial data sets, the business logic rules indicative of parameters corresponding to each of the operations;
• determining, by correlating the parameters of the operations to the attributes of the indicated data sets, operations applicable to the indicated raw geospatial data sets;
• receiving, from the user, an operation selection indicative of a subset of selected operations from the identified plurality of operations;
• applying the selected operations to the indicated raw geospatial data sets by providing the attributes of each of the raw geospatial data sets to the parameters of the selected operations;
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• generating a desired output image data set corresponding to the indicated raw geospatial data sets and the selected operations.

A geospatial data provisioning server comprising:

• a data set gathering processor operable to identify a plurality of geospatial data sets corresponding to an area of interest, each of the geospatial data sets having metadata and attribute values defining attributes of the area of interest;
• a transformation logic engine operable to determine operations applicable to the identified geospatial data sets based on the attributes of the geospatial data sets and the parameters corresponding to the operations, the transformation logic engine further operable to apply at least one of the determined operations to the identified geospatial data sets according to the transformation rules to generate an output data set;
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• an output image processor operable to provide, to a user, a provisioned data set corresponding to the area of interest from the generated output data set.

A computer program product having a computer readable medium operable to store computer program logic embodied in computer program code encoded thereon for provisioning geospatial data comprising:

• computer program code for identifying a plurality of geospatial data sets corresponding to an area of interest, each of the geospatial data sets having metadata and attribute values defining attributes of the area of interest;
• computer program code for determining, from transformation rules, operations applicable to the identified geospatial data sets based on the attributes of the geospatial data sets and the parameters corresponding to the operations;
• computer program code for applying at least one of the determined operations to the identified geospatial data sets according to the transformation rules to generate an output data set;
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• computer program code for providing, to a user, a provisioned data set corresponding to the area of interest from the generated output data set.

A computer data signal having program code for provisioning geospatial data comprising:

• program code for identifying a plurality of geospatial data sets corresponding to an area of interest, each of the geospatial data sets having metadata and attribute values defining attributes of the area of interest;
• program code for determining, from transformation rules, operations applicable to the identified geospatial data sets based on the attributes of the geospatial data sets and the parameters corresponding to the operations;
• program code for applying at least one of the determined operations to the identified geospatial data sets according to the transformation rules to generate an output data set;
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• program code for providing, to a user, a provisioned data set corresponding to the area of interest from the generated output data set.

A computing device for provisioning geospatial data comprising:

• means for identifying a plurality of geospatial data sets corresponding to an area of interest, each of the geospatial data sets having metadata and attribute values defining attributes of the area of interest;
• means for determining, from transformation rules, operations applicable to the identified geospatial data sets based on the attributes of the geospatial data sets and the parameters corresponding to the operations;
• means for applying at least one of the determined operations to the identified geospatial data sets according to the transformation rules to generate an output data set;
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• means for providing, to a user, a provisioned data set corresponding to the area of interest from the generated output data set.