1. The GEO Air Quality Community of Practice AQ CoP
How does it fit into GEOSS?
What it has done?
Point of Contact: Rudolf Husar

3. Air Quality & Health Applications
Informing the Public
Enforcing Standards
Hemispheric Transport
Real-time Service
Regulatory Analysis
Policy Assessment
Atmospheric Composition
Science & Education
User Requirements
Valid Standards
Best Practices
GEOSS
Infrastructure
Offered Services
There are numerous Earth Observations that are available and in principle useful for air quality applications such as informing the public and enforcing AQ standards. However, connecting a user to the right observations or models is accompanied by an array of hurdles.
The GEOSS Common Infrastructure allows the reuse of observations and models for multiple purposes
Even in the narrow application of Wildfire smoke, observations and models can be reused.
Model
Emission
Surf. Obs.
Population
Satellite
Observing Systems

4. Air Quality & Health Applications
Informing the Public
Enforcing Standards
Hemispheric Transport
Real-time Service
Regulatory Analysis
Policy Assessment
Atmospheric Composition
Science & Education
User Requirements
User Req. Registry
Valid Standards
Best Practices
Standards, Registry
GEOSS
Infrastructure
Best Practices Wiki
Offered Services
GEO Clearinghouse
There are numerous Earth Observations that are available and in principle useful for air quality applications such as informing the public and enforcing AQ standards. However, connecting a user to the right observations or models is accompanied by an array of hurdles.
The GEOSS Common Infrastructure allows the reuse of observations and models for multiple purposes
Even in the narrow application of Wildfire smoke, observations and models can be reused.
Model
Emission
Surf. Obs.
Population
Satellite
Observing Systems

5. Interoperability Stack
Interoperability for Connecting: Machines & Machines
People & People
People & Machines
Personal
Phone, Video, ,
People
People
Messages RSS/Atom, Social, Wiki
Interoperability Stack
Data as Service OGC W*S, netCDF-CF
Co-development

6. GEO AQ CoP Characteristics
GEO AQ Cop is Not:
Not a project or program
Not funded by GEO
Not centralized
Approach: Use existing projects
Pursue original scope and mandate of the projects
but
Expose sharable resources from projects
Participate in collaboration network

7. AQ CoP Participation in GEO Tasks
Other AQ CoP Ativities
AQ CoP Participation in GEO Tasks
• US-09-01b: Development of Communities of Practice
• US-09-01a: Identifying User Requirements for Earth Obs.
AR-09-01b: GEO Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP)
DA-09-02d: Atmospheric Model Evaluation Network
…..
Meeting & Coordination Activities,
May 2009: Session on AQ and GEOSS, ISRSE, Stresa, Italy (Husar)
Jul 2009: AQ Community Infrastructure, ESIP, Santa Barbara, CA, US (McCabe)
Nov 2009: AQ Side Meeting at GEO-VI Plenary, Wash. DC, US (McCabe, Keating)
May 2010: GEO Decision Support Concept Proposal (Falke)
June 2010: AQ Participation in the GEOSS AIP 2,3. (Falke, Robinson)
Monthly: Telecons, Wiki workspace (Falke, Robinson)

8. GEO AQ CoP Active Participants
Technologists:
Michael Decker, FZ Julich; Oleg Goussev (DLR); Kari Hoijarvi, WUSTL; Erin Robinson, WUSTL.. and others.
Facilitators: Stefan Falke, NGC; Dave McCabe, EPA/CAC); Frank Lindsey, NASA; Rudy Husar, WUSTL; Martin Shulz, FZ Juelich .. and others.
Agency Executives: Gary Foley, EPA; Terry Keating, EPA; Lawrence Friedl, NASA .. and others.
Point of Contact: Rudolf Husar

9. GEO AQ-CoP Main interaction through the open, participatory website:
CoP People
Member Projects
DataSpaces

10. AR-09-01b: GEO Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) Testing and Using the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)
Catalog of
AQ Data
though the
GEOSS Clearinghouse
Time
Space
Data Search Facets
Dataset
Parameter
Instr.
Platform
A tangible outcome of the CoP particption was the
Sharing is facilitated by the GEOSS Common Infrastructure

11. Air Quality & Health Applications
Informing the Public
Enforcing Standards
Hemispheric Transport
Real-time Service
Regulatory Analysis
Policy Assessment
Atmospheric Composition
Science & Education
User Requirements
User Req. Registry
Valid Standards
Best Practices
Standards, Registry
GEOSS
Infrastructure
Best Practices Wiki
Offered Services
GEO Clearinghouse
There are numerous Earth Observations that are available and in principle useful for air quality applications such as informing the public and enforcing AQ standards. However, connecting a user to the right observations or models is accompanied by an array of hurdles.
The GEOSS Common Infrastructure allows the reuse of observations and models for multiple purposes
Even in the narrow application of Wildfire smoke, observations and models can be reused.
Model
Emission
Surf. Obs.
Population
Satellite
Observing Systems

12. GEO User Requirement Registry URR

13. GEO User Requirement Registry URR
Currently an EPA Contract with SCG
Supported by Analyst Consultants
Potential role for the AQ CoP in contributing to URR