Gaea Visual Environment User's Guide to the Gaea Visual Environment Gaea is a spatio-temporal data analysis and management system under development at the WPI Computer Science Department. The key to Gaea's power is in capturing and maintaining metadata about data, operators, and experiments, and using this metadata to facilitate browsing the available information, creating and executing experiments, and extending the capabilities of the system. GaeaVE is the front-end to the Gaea system. It provides users with the ability to browse data, create processes, execute processes, and create new data classes. Processes may also be executed for testing purposes from the Process Editor.
Users instantiate input data objects by specifying constraints on attributes of the data classes.
It is the responsibility of the process to create a unique output data object instance for storage.