Transcript NOAA Earth Information Service (NEIS) Lightning Talk EDM

NOAA Environmental Information Services
(NEIS)
N-Wave Stakeholder Meeting
May 22nd, 2012
Jebb Q Stewart
NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD
ESRL Global Systems Division
What is NEIS?
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A framework of layered services designed to help NOAA’s mission by
facilitating the discovery, access, integration,
and understanding of all NOAA data (past, present, and future).
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Data Integration
Physical
Chemical
Biological
Carbon Tracker
FIM
Biological, Chemical, and Physical data are all interrelated
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Lots of Great Technology Exists.
xkcd.com
THREDDS
Google Earth
MERMAid
Grads Data Server
LAS
NASA World Wind
REVERB
OGC Services
More…
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ERDDAP
GeoPortal
iRODS
NEIS Concept
Take advantage of existing technology where we can to quickly find and access to
data 100 of years in the past to 100 years in the future, from the top of the
atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean in a single application.
Framework provides capability to answer questions that require data from different
data sources.
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New Visualization Tools
TerraViz – Created by GSD
• A system developed from the ground up by GSD based on Unity3D.
• There are no licensing restrictions in distributing the TerraViz executable.
• Unity3D is a well supported commercial game and data visualization
engine with 750,000 active users
• Unity/C# is designed for 3D development, making it easy to create
multiple views, create 3D meshes representing environmental objects,
etc.
• Develop once, then will run under Windows, Mac, web browsers,
iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and even game systems (Wii, Xbox 360,
etc.)
• We can modify the user interface and add any feature we need.
• TerraViz Handles millions of polygons and performs quickly
TerraViz is one possible visualization tool built to develop, test, and showcase
NEIS framework.
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Dealing with Big Data
Data are ever increasing in size.
• New Polar Orbiting NPP data (~ 4 TB / day)
• GOES-R
• New Global Forecast Models, rapidly increasing in size.
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Minimize data we transfer.
Avoid data duplication.
Make data appear local to users.
Allow users to collaborate.
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Looking to the Future
Build new Graphical User Interface system integrating and leveraging new and
emerging technologies to meet NEIS goal ‘any data, any location, any platform,
now’
• Perform processing within cloud environment and with high speed
connectivity to data sources (N-Wave), taking advantage of large processing
power within clouds.
• Send graphics and server side processed/rendered/streamed data to GUI,
improving bandwidth utilization.
• Take advantage of fast networking to make remote requests and processing
appear like local application.
• Similar to how the new Amazon Silk Browser works.
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Demonstration
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Questions?
[email protected]
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/neis
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Backup Slides
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NEIS – Features
Integrates data from disparate data sources synchronized both temporally and
geospatially.
Quick access data through time using “Time Wheel” with dynamic time striding.
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NEIS - Features
3D KML with Metadata
overlays
Integrated data plotting
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NEIS - Features
Annotation – Basic drawing
capabilities
Multiuser/Collaboration – real
time screen sharing with web
cams
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NEIS - Future
What’s next?
Understand more data access
protocols. Eventually support ERDDAP
and variety of OGC services
Cross Service Processing
Continued improvement for data
discovering and searching
More …
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NEIS/TerraViz in Action
TerraViz – Developed by GSD is a show case of NEIS capabilities
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