EDCS Basics (1)

• The EDCS provides mechanisms to unambiguously specify objects used to model environmental concepts.
  • The EDCS supports the encoding and communication of qualitative and quantitative information associated with natural and artificial environments

• The EDCS specifies a collection of nine dictionaries of environmental concepts, as well as:
  • Guidelines for expanding these dictionaries through registration,
  • Conventions for applying the encodings in information processing applications,
  • A functional interface to convert between numeric values given in different units of measure and scales, and
  • Organizational Schema and Groups to aid in searching specific dictionaries

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