AN ORGANISATION FOR A NATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM Australian Earth Science Research Information Infrastructure Dr Robert Woodcock CSIRO

2 Commonwealth State Local Regional Industry Research bedrock surficial mineral geochemical geochronologic hyrdrogeological Geo-information geophysical With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Natural Resources Canada Decisions, decisions…? decision makers knowledge base

3 Single pass 150 m cell differentially reduced to the pole magnetic anomaly map Thanks to Hugh Tassell, Ole Nielson, Peter Milligan & Lutz Gross

4 Mineral Systems Life Cycles & Targeting Numerical Modelling (CSIRO/pmd*CRC) gold magnetit e pyrrhotitecalcite Slide courtesy of James Cleverley and Paul Roberts

5 Predicting mineral location and geophysical responses Density Magnetic susceptibility

6 Courtesy: Cobar Management Pty Ltd & Peter Schaubs Under what conditions do S2 shear zones form?

7 Courtesy: Cobar Management Pty Ltd & Peter Schaubs

8 ? Commonwealth State Local Regional Industry Research bedrock surficial mineral geochemical geochronologic hyrdrogeological Geo-information geophysical With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Natural Resources Canada Decisions, decisions…? decision makers knowledge base

9 Managing natural hazards – a similar situation decision making Resource Assessment geohazards inundation hazard potential hazard uncertainty Earthquake location Earthquake magnitude Policy buildings bathymetry geophysics Seismic Community Info Environment Geo-information vulnerability, risk cost Human Facility Economy loss Environment Risk Assessment Tsunami risk map Integrated Assessment resource assessment modeling vulnerability, risk assessment modeling integrated assessment modeling Tsunami emergency response geohazards Town planning inundation Vulnerability, risk Slide adapted from Boyan Brodaric – Natural Resources Canada

10 It’s all quite traumatic!

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12 National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy NCRIS – a new Australian Government Initiative Australian Government: ~$500M for FY06-FY11 11 Capability Areas + one Systemic ICT Infrastructure NCRIS Principles –“Major infrastructure …should serve the research and innovation system broadly, not just the host / funded institutions –“...seek to enable the fuller participation of Australian researchers in the international research system” Test Beds Prototypes

13 AuScope: Coherent Accessible Infrastructure AuScope National, Integrated Data Acquisition Infrastructure and Programs AuScope Earth Model 3D/4D Multiscale Updateable Web Portal Access New Ideas New Knowledge Policy Demands Education Wealth Building Repositories, Networks, Access & Interoperability AuScope Simulator Data Mining Inversion Modelling Infrastructure Data / Information Research Knowledge Application National Benefit AuScope National, Integrated Data Acquisition Infrastructure and Programs AuScope Earth Model 3D/4D Multiscale Updateable Web Portal Access New Ideas New Knowledge Policy Demands Education Wealth Building Repositories, Networks, Access & Interoperability AuScope Simulator Data Mining Inversion Modelling Infrastructure Data / Information Research Knowledge Application National Benefit 1: Concepts 2: Data Acquisition 3: Data storage & access 4: Research 5: Knowledge Delivery

14 Auscope – a system for earth science Toys TraumaThrillsTreasure

15 Toys… Data 1: Transects Program

16 Toys… Data 2: Geochemical Instruments

17 © CSIRO 2003 Toys Data 3: Virtual Core Library Spectrometer Telescope Robotic x/y table Linescan camera Control computer Cooler Profilometer ASD spectrometer Controlling computer Robotic x-y table Telescope Chip tray Quartz halogen lamps Fibre optic cable Chip tray carrier

18 Toys Data 4: GPS, Geodesy

19 Thrills: Simulation and modeling Desktop Modelling Toolkit –CSIRO Minerals Down Under Virtual Rock Laboratory –UQ Underworld on the Grid –Monash, VPAC Geodesy Workflow –UTAS, GA, ANU, Curtin

20 Data Structures Proprietary Software Versions of Software Client Trauma: Data is not standardised across organisations

21 AuScope Community Agreements Client A solution: Open standards based earth science information infrastructure

22 WMS GetMap returns a server’s “dumb” JPEG, GIF or PNG representation of the data on the server. It does NOT return the actual data, only a bitmap of the data. Web Map Service can’t “give data away.” Roma

23 Portrayal vs Analysis Simple vs Community Schemas Data can be easily exchanged within communities where meaning is understood and humans are involved Property = temperature, (only) Value = ’15-20’ For use in wider communities more precise definitions are required that reflect the complexity of the real world Property = temperature, Value = 15 Unit = C Instrument = thermometer Value = 17 Unit = C Instrument = thermometer Value = 20 Unit = C Instrument = thermometer OR Property = temperature, MinValue = 15 Unit = C MaxValue = 20 Unit = C Agreement at an international level enables data to be reused, repurposed and used by other domains globally

24 Rendered into a map layer AND queried by a user or…. … formatted into a report or …. … read and used by any enabled application Slides courtesy Stuart Girvan – Geoscience Australia Applications: It’s not about you…it’s about them.

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26 AuScope Earth Science Network Simulation Res Grp Info Survey Info Geospatial

27 Benefits for… Providers –All providers get to retain their back end database structures –(Potential to have) consumers and independent 3 rd parties develop their own portals and applications Users –Accelerate time to results –Enable collaboration and promote operational flexibility –Increase productivity –Leverage existing capital investments –Increased access to data and collaboration Spatial Information Services Stack applicable to other spatial domains

28 Earth Science has many pieces that build our understanding – Auscope brings them together