Transcript eGY General Meeting 13

electronic
Geophysical Year
GFZ Potsdam
contribution to eGY
Bernd Ritschel
([email protected])
eGY General Meeting, Boulder, 13-14 March 2007
Outline
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GFZ Potsdam and Data Center
ISDC for geoscience data
Duties and Responsibilities in eGY
Status of eGY in Germany/Europe
Activities and Projects related to eGY
Further Objectives and Tasks
eGY General Meeting, Boulder, 13-14 March 2007
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (1)
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Biggest and most important German
georesearch center
Covering all geoscience disciplines
Geodesy and
Remote Sensing
Physics of the Earth
Geodynamics
Chemistry of the
Earth
Geoengineering
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GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (2)
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Own satellite missions (CHAMP, GRACE
[with US], TerraSAR-X [with DLR],
SWARM [with ESA])
Big geoscience projects (GEOFONE,
ICDP, CHAMP, …)
Infrastructure (Instruments, Data
Center, Computing Center, …)
750 employess (500 scientists)
Publicly funded (90% Bund, 10% Land
Brandenburg)
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GFZ Data Center
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Research on information management
and data exchange (metadata standards
and ontologies, semantic web, metadata
and data exchange mechanism, …)
Development of IT infrastructure
applications and systems (ISDC + degree
framework CWS [interoperability])
Operation of data management services
using information systems (ISDC)
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ISDC for geoscience data (1)
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Information System and Data Center
(ISDC) for big geoscience projects
CHAMP/GRACE satellite mission
• GPS time series data
• Magnetic field data
• Gravity field data
• Atmospheric/Ionospheric data
• Auxiliary data
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ISDC for geoscience data (2)
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Global Geodynmaic Project (GGP)
• Superconducting Gravimeter Network
data
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GPS Reprocessing data (Orbits, ERP)
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=> All metadata are available in the
GCMD DIF standard (parent XML
DIF + child XML/ASCII DIF)
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isdc.gfz-potsdam.de
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Duties and Responsibilities in eGY (1)
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Member of European/German eGY
Committee
Representing eGY at GEO meeting in
Bonn, IPY opening Ceremony in
Paris, …
Involved in the unique IAG Global
Geodetic Observing System
(GGOS) project
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Duties and Responsibilities in eGY (2)
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ISDC has been announced as system
in GEOSS
EGU GI10 Convener (together with
Peter Fox) “Informatics:
distributed information systems technology and applications”
=> 36 contributions
ISDC is selected as eGY showcase
(AGU)
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Status of eGY in Germany/Europe (1)
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Very fragmented picture in Europe
Italy (Mauro), Russia, France, UK, …
In Germany at least eGY awareness
at the GFZ Potsdam
eGY European Meeting (before
EGU, 13-14 April 2007 in Potsdam)
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Status of eGY in Germany/Europe (2)
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EGU 2007 Vienna: eGY town hall
meeting
IUGG 2007 Perugia: eGY official
opening ceremony
7th European framework program is
linked to eGY objectives
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Activities and Projects related to eGY
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IAG Workshop in Potsdam on “real”
networked global Gravity Field
Services (connected to GGOS
project)
IUGG Union session contribution
“Geoscience information systems
and interoperable catalog and
data access services for global
distributed gravity field data”
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Further Objectives and Tasks (1)
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Improve awareness of eGY and eGY
objectives
Keep active in eGY in different ways
ISDC system in GEOSS
Close the gap between GFZ and DLR
Earth observation data management
in the sense of eGY
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Further Objectives and Tasks (2)
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Start of the IAG GGOS portal project
Improve the role of GGOS in the
sense of a global networked
information system in GEOSS
Join the WDC Directors
Conference in Bremen as eGY
representative?
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Further Objectives and Tasks (3)
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ISDC catalog interoperability by OGC/ISO
WCS (degree framework)
ISDC data interoperability by OGC SWE
concept (virtual observatory)
Providing thematic and ontology based
metadata catalog search and access to
tailored products (metadata + data)
Publication of data using DOI and/or URN
GFZ/ISDC IDN portal in CEOS
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