1. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 Presentation to the 26 th CEOS Plenary at Bengaluru, India 24-27 October, 2012 WGISS Report and Actions Satoko Horiyama MIURA WGISSS Chair, JAXA

2. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 Contents 1.WGISS 5-year Plan [ Decision sought / Way forward ] a.Major updates b.Future plan 2.WGISS Participation status [ Current challenges ] 3.Joint Efforts [ Current/Future challenges ] a.With WGCV b.With WGCapD, WGClimate and VCs 4.WGISS Highlights [ Current/Future challenges, Past accomplishments ] a.CEOS Requirements to WGISS b.Contribution to GEOSS Data-CORE c.Data Accessible from CWIC d.CWIC & Technology IG Highlights e.Data Stewardship IG f.GA.4.Disasters & Water Portal Projects 2

3. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 1. WGISS 5-Year Plan a. Major Updates I.Views and priorities of the current chair 1)Work closely with and collaborate as appropriate with CEOS Working Groups and Virtual Constellations. 2)Work closely with the CEOS-SEC and CEOS-SIT and keep “two-way” communications. 3)Continue and stimulate technical discussion/coordination, and confirm WGISS’ reputation as technical experts of information and service systems II.WGISS Structure Change 3

4. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 4 CY WGISS CEOS Plenary 201220132014 WGISS-33 Re-organization WGISS-34 Initiate efforts with other WGs & VCs WGISS-35 WGISS Strategy Discussion part I WGISS-36 WGISS Strategy Discussion part II CEOS Documents Approval Strategic Guidance Document CEOS Governance and Processes Work Plan WGISS 5 year Plan Annual Updates WGISS 5 year Plan Annual Updates 1. WGISS 5-Year Plan b. Future Plan WGISS-37

5. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 5 MeetingsChairVice-Chair 2004-2005USGSESA 2006-2007ESANASA 2008-2009NASAGISTDA 2010-2011GISTDAJAXA 2012-2013JAXACNES 2014-2015CNESVACANT 2. WGISS Participant Status Including those who used “GO TO meeting” service, prepared by WISP (WGISS Infrastructure Services Project) team.

6. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 3. Joint Efforts a. With WGCV I.Quality information in Metadata II.Data Access of CEOS Test Site Data access to all the test sites will become available by the end of Oct. 2012 III.Identifying Key Data Partners -> Collaboration with VCs IV.Long Term Data Preservation of ECV V.DEM Quality Information System (DEMqis) After funding is secured 6

7. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 3. Joint Effrots b. With WGCapD, WGClimate and VCs I.With WGCapD Agreed to start collaboration by linking portal systems Potential joint sessions and regional workshops being planned II.With WGClimate To initiate discussion on “CEOS Response to GCOS IP” after the plenary III.With VCs To contact each VC on their needs 7

8. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 4. WGISS Highlights a. CEOS Requirements to WGISS A/I No. 25-6: WGISS to engage related agencies and to lead an investigation into the opportunities and obstacles for the interoperability of HMA and CWIC, providing a report and recommendations to CEOS-26  ESA recently provided an HMA POC to aid WGISS in the investigation of opportunities and obstacles for the interoperability of HMA and CWIC 3-year outcomes defined in course of the CEOS Self Study a.Advancing CWIC b.IDN development c.Support to development of CEOS Portals GEO Work Plan /CEOS-GEO Action a.POC of GEO WP Component IN-02-C1 b.Lead of CEOS-GEO Action  IN-03-C1_1  DI-01-C1_2  WA-01-C1_1 8 Slide 9~11 Slide 13 Slide 12

9. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 Contribution to GEOSS Data-CORE CWIC & IDN GEO has 8752* data collections tagged as geossDataCore. International Directory Network (IDN) provides geossDataCore tagging for 8264* US agencies (and INPE) data collections. IDN staff ready and willing to tag data collections from CEOS agencies as “geossDataCore” if requested. Tools available to register data collections in the IDN IDN provides collection metadata for over 21,942* data collections available to GEOSS. – Registering a data collection in the IDN in effect registers the data collection in GEOSS. – Recent registration : JAXA(221), NOAA/NODC(20) – A data collection must be registered in the IDN to be CWIC accessible. – IDN serves as the directory service for the CEOS community and for CWIC collections *9 October 2012 figures 9 The GEOSS Data Collection of Open Resources for Everyone (GEOSS Data-CORE) is a distributed pool of documented datasets with full and open unrestricted access at no more than the cost of reproduction and distribution” 8264 via IDN (~94%) Total : 8752 488 from others

10. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 Data Accessible from CWIC a.CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog (CWIC) provides access to 1,742* data collections with inventories – to Client Partners and to GEO Partners. b.Current Data Partners include NOAA, NASA, USGS, INPE, AOE, JAXA, SST Virtual Constellation (GHRSST/NODC). USGS and INPE provide access to operational databases AOE added 3 rd data center, CRESDA (HJ1A, HJ1B, CBERS01, CBERS02, CBERS2B), in addition to Beijing-1 (BJ-1)and NSMC/Feng-Yun (FY3A, FY2D, FY2E) data centers. NOAA and NASA provide access to their operational systems. NOAA will enable access to unrestricted data in CLASS when the new API is released in 2013 NASA working to make all EO unrestricted online satellite data accessible from CWIC. JAXA is a new data partner (prototype), and will provide search to about 200 data collections (~16 million granules). SST VC (GHRSST/NODC) adding ~ 60 data collections (~2.3 million granules) LSI team adding additional data to CWIC through the USGS CWIC connection. CCRS will make Radarsat-1 & Radarsat-2 accessible from CWIC ISRO announced plans to become a CWIC Data Partner 10 *9 October 2012 figures

11. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 CWIC, IDN & Tech. Exploration IG a.CWIC Client Partners Current Client Partners include LSI Portal CWIC-Start, a NASA sponsored client for CEOS community science users CCRS agency portal b.IDN Development/Population New RESTful web services are now available that provides dynamic access to IDN content. Initiated communication with ISRO to exchange collection metadata c.Technology Exploration Interest Group (IG) Surveying existing “Collection Level” quality metadata within WGISS member agency products and provide a report by WGISS-35 (towards joint efforts with WGCV) Documenting different quality activities that are happening in the WGISS member community. Investigating User Registration methods within CWIC data partner data systems to support data access. Promoting WGISS member agency data access tools and services via technology showcases at WGISS meetings 11

12. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 Data Stewardship IG a.Data Management Statement for IN-02-C1_1 Released in April 2012 WGISS & ESA HMA Compilation b.Browse Statement for IN-02-C1 Expected by December 2012 c.Archive Environmental Monitoring Network Canada, Brazil, China, UK, US d.Data Purge Alert System Being Used e.Updating Browse Guidelines Document 12 Contribution to GEO WP Component IN-02-C1

13. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 GA.4.Disasters & Water Portal Projects a.GEOSS Architecture for Disasters Project Accomplishments Investigated case studies (e.g. 2008 earthquake in China) and pilots (e.g. Namibia flood pilot) to evaluate the use of satellites for disaster management and documented a structured reference model architecture (processes involved, stakeholder needs/constraints) Next the project will review the architecture with stakeholders and develop recommendations for CEOS and GEOSS 13 a.CEOS Water Portal Project The portal can be accessed at “http://waterportal.ceos.org/”. Will contribute to “7.2 Data Acquisition and Distribution ” in GEO Water Cycle Strategy Contribution to CEOS-GEO Action DI-01-C1_2 Contribution to CEOS-GEO Action WA-01-C1_1

14. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 BACK UP SLIDES 14

15. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 WGISS Structure WGISS Satoko Miura, JAXA, Chair Richard Moreno, CNES, Vice Chair Interest Groups:Technology ExplorationAndrew Mitchell, NASA Data Stewardship John Faundeen, USGS Virtual ConstellationJohn Faundeen, USGS Projects :CWIC Martin Yapur, NOAA, Yonsook Enloe, NASA GA.4.DisastersKaren Moe, NASA, Sergii Skakun, NSAU Water PortalSatoko Miura, JAXA WGISS Secretariat: Michelle Piepgrass, JAXA Infrastructure Activities: Intl. Directory Network (IDN)Lola Olsen, NASA WGISS Infrastructure ServicesMartin Yapur, NOAA

16. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 International Directory Network(IDN) is responsible for coordinating activities among the participating agencies to maintain, improve, and expand the functions and use of the CEOS IDN, which is the largest scientific directory service in the world. WGISS Infrastructure Services provides meeting support, including coordinating required technology (web conferencing, loading presentations, storing and distributing presentations), and supporting the WGISS website and mail distribution lists. 16

17. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 Technology Exploration IG is to serve as a forum for exchange of technical information and lessons-learned experience about current and trending software technologies, services and other WWW / Internet related software technologies. DSIG is to provide WGISS EO data curation guidance to enable the sharing of agency investigations, developments, and lessons- learned relating to EO data management. 17

18. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 Virtual Constellation IG is Point of Contact for queries from Virtual Constellations (VCs) regarding WGISS capabilities. CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog (CWIC) Prj. is expected to facilitate discovery and access to the CEOS agency satellite data in GEO/GEOSS. 18

19. The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012 The GA.4.Disasters Project seeks to address the use of satellites, sensors, models, and associated data products to support disaster response and risk assessment. The Water Portal Project seeks to provide assistance to the water-relevant scientists and general users in the development of data services associated with data integration and distribution. 19