Stefan Falke Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis Washington University in St. Louis Networked Data and Tools for Environmental Management New IT Research to Advance Environmental Research, Policy and Management dg.o 2003 Panel

NEISGEI A conceptual framework for the development of a fully integrated distributed emissions inventory -- Spatial (and temporal) scales –Air pollutants for assessing human, ecosystem and climate health –To support scientists, regulators, policy analysts and public education A tool for strategic planning of air quality environmental management capacity building projects --A fully populated network will be a resource for identifying important missing datasets in regional, hemispheric and global scale studies Networked Environmental Information System for Global Emissions Inventories

NEISGEI Networked Environmental Information System for Global Emissions Inventories dg.o 2002 birds-of-a-feather session NSF and EPA Workshop Issues identified: Finding data Integrating data Quantifying data uncertainty Project types: Data wrapping and integration of same type data Data wrapping and integration of heterogeneous data Tools to support environmental management

Fire, Smoke and Air Quality Network The US Environmental Protection Agency and USDA-Forest Service are partnering agencies The management of fire, smoke, and air quality is tasked to multiple agencies at federal, state, and local levels. The diversity in data collection methods, data reporting requirements, data formatting schemes, data analysis methods, and data presentation create a daunting challenge for the integration of these data. However, integration of these heterogeneous datasets is precisely what is called for by federal and regional organizations in order to derive a more comprehensive understanding of fire, smoke, and air quality. Co-investigator: Rudolf Husar, Washington U.

Fire, Smoke and Air Quality Network The network will provide: uniform access to and cataloging of distributed fire related data and tools easy-to-use interfaces for exploring fire related resources powerful tools that contribute to fire related data analysis and modeling a framework that encourages community-wide contributions The fire, smoke, and air quality network will consist of web-based data access and analysis facilities that are flexible and adaptive in meeting the diverse end use requirements of wildland and prescribed fire managers and air quality planners.

Fire, Smoke, and Air Quality Network The map and time views are linked so that changing the focus in one automatically updates the other. For example, clicking on a PM2.5 monitor in the map displays the time series at that monitor. CIRA ColoState-VIEWS European Space Agency Generic Map Server NASA SeaWiFS Project Map View Time View Control Panel Integration of multiple sources of fire related data aids in planning, management, and post-fire analysis.

Spatio-Temporal Data Browser Render Spatial Slice Find/Bind Data Data Cube Time Slice Time Portrayal Spatial PortrayalSpatial Overlay Time Overlay OGC-Compliant GIS Services Time-Series Services PortrayOverlay Homogenizer Catalog Wrapper Mediator Client Browser Cursor/Controller Maintain Data Vector GIS Data XDim Data SQL Table OLAP Satellite Images Data Sources Queries yield slices along the spatial, temporal and parameter dimensions of multidimensional data cubes.

Integrated N. American Emission Inventory The Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the US EPA are supporting a project to develop a prototype web tool for enabling uniform access to distributed emissions data from North American electricity generating power plants. Co-investigator: Greg Stella, Alpine Geophysics The prototype tool will help: Assess data gaps Identify future IT tools that can aid collaborative emissions inventory project Air pollutant emission inventories for the US, Canada, and Mexico are compiled and stored using different methods

Chemical and Aerosol Trajectory Tool Where did polluted air come from?Where did clean air come from?

Networked Assessment Evolution 1) Begin with data access and browsing viewing data inputs and results separately 2) Ask questions related to what parts of analysis/modeling can be generalized, automated, distributed 3) Add data processing/manipulation tools to the network Multi-researcher environmental assessments Each researcher with contributes their expertise Rarely is an environmental management project conducted start to finish by a single researcher

EPA Office of Environmental Information National Environmental Information Exchange Network Promote access and exchange of quality environmental data while reducing reporting burden and increasing the efficiency of data exchanges between networks. Build locally and nationally accessible, cohesive and coherent environmental information systems that will ensure that both the public and regulators have access to the information needed to document environmental performance, understand environmental conditions, and make sound decisions that ensure environmental protection. Grant program to States, Territories, and Tribes for building capabilities for network participation

NASA Earth System Enterprise Improve the application of NASA Earth Observing System products (satellite imagery) to non-NASA activities The products consist of a heterogeneous mix of interdependent components derived from the contributions of many individuals and institutions. Provide network components for harmonizing and aggregating NASA’s various, disparate, numerous data systems and services. The network is to be simple, flexible and adaptable.

Sensor Networks Wireless and embedded sensor networks have become an area of intensive research over the past three years. The focus of the research has been in the areas of instrumentation and information/communication technology. A report by the National Research Council outlines a research agenda for realizing sensor networks and notes that one of the best approaches to understanding and addressing research challenges is to begin experimentation with embedded networks in environmental monitoring applications. Current focus is on getting sensors and sensor networks to communicate Future need is how to work with all that data!