Extending Partnerships Building Bridges to Strengthen Linkages Between User-Stakeholders and Scientific Tool Developers Carol Meyer, Foundation for Earth Science Contributions by: Karl Benedict, EDAC/UNM; Ken Keiser, UAH; Jerry Pan, ORNL March 7, 2008 Sponsored By:
ESIP Federation Consortium of 100+ Earth Science-Related Partners Formed in 1998 by NASA NOAA and NASA funded EPA, USGS and NSF also involved Data- and technology-centric community Membership spans continuum of interests Neutral forum for community networking, collaboration & problem solving
ObservationResearch Application Earth Science Elements As Described By the Decadal Survey* Areas of NRC Concern Requirements Information 1s ESIP 1sESIP 2sESIP 3s Information Technology Sectors / Domains ESIP Bridges *National Research Council Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond. Washington. 437 p.
Primary Interests Making data usable and accessible Increase use of Earth science data and information Leveraging existing and new technologies to improve flow of data and information
Web Services Standard data architecture used Web services sit on top of the architecture Gain flexibility Reusable components Technology capabilities are conceptual models for application to other systems
Observation to Research Oak Ridge National Lab and NOAA NCDC Land Surface Temperature Service Facilitate inter- comparison of satellite & ground- based data sets Web Service (SOAP) with additional visualization capability Experimental product dev.ornl.gov/FixSites7x7/services/ModisLS T?wsdl dev.ornl.gov/FixSites7x7/services/ModisLS T?wsdl
Research to Applications Information Technology and Systems Center, UAH Hurricane Information Archive Enables data searching and ordering Web services (OGC WMS & WFS standards) Created for SURA SCOOP program erv?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION= 1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&R EQUEST=GetCapabilities&TYPE NAME=WFS_HURRICANE erv?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION= 1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&R EQUEST=GetCapabilities&TYPE NAME=WFS_HURRICANE
End-to-End Data & Information Delivery Earth Data Analysis Center at UNM Performs data acquisition, processing and analysis and for delivery into decision support systems Tiered services oriented architecture (OGC WCS and WMS; W3C SOAP) Used in Public Health decision making bin/mapmodule_client.py bin/mapmodule_client.py
Other Technical Activities On-going development efforts Semantically-Enabled Web (Noesis search tool) Interoperable Portal Technologies (JSR- 168 standard – EIE) Data and Service Registries (GCMD, ECHO) On-going topics of interest Data archiving Provenance Data Quality
Why Work Together? Synergy leveraging existing tool capabilities Model reanalysis work will affect everyone in the community ESIP Federation community can be a partner in dialogue and action Summer Meeting July 15-18, 2008 University of New Hampshire
Questions? Carol Meyer (general questions) Karl Benedict (technology questions) x234