Transcript First European electronic Geophysical Year Workshop

The Electronic
Geophysical Year
The Electronic
Geophysical Year
eGY activities related to WGISS
Bernd Ritschel, European eGY Committee
[email protected]
*Slides are provided by eGY member
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007
The Electronic
Geophysical Year
eGY Kick off in Perugia
• eGY officially began on 7 July 2007 at the IUGG
General Assembly in Perugia
• Declaration for an Earth and Space Science
Information Commons: http://egy.org/declaration.php
– Article 1: Data access
• Earth system data and information should be made
available electronically with interoperable approaches …
– Article 2: Data release
• Owners, custodians, and creators of Earth system data
should work together to share their digital information …
– more Articles about: Data description, Data persistence,
Data rescue, Common standards and cooperation,
Capability building, Education and public outreach
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007
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Geophysical Year
VOiG Confernce 2007
• 1. Virtual Observatories in Geosciences (VOiG)
conference, Denver, June, 2007, http://www.voig.net
• 70 participants in work-shop and the main conference
• results of the meeting will be made available in two
forms:
– peer-reviewed proceedings of about 10 submissions for
special issue in new journal Earth Science Informatics
– a full volume on Virtual Observatories in Geosciences to
be published in AGU Geophysical Monograph series.
• based on the success, there is planned
to hold another VOiG conference
in Denver, September 2008 (P. Fox)
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007
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Geophysical Year
ESSI Division at EGU
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007
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Geophysical Year
MMI Project endors eGY
http://marinemetadata.org/
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007
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Geophysical Year
Events
• Nature Article: Geophysicists Combine Forces" Nature
447, 1037 (28 June 2007)
• eGY National Committee for China Established, 25
September 2007
• eGY Demonstration Projects at Fall AGU Meeting
2007
• eGY Session Proposals Due Soon for 2008 AGU Joint
Assembly, http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja08/.
• Earth & Space Science Informatics Summit,
Rom, 13-14th March 2008
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007
eGY and WDCs
Recent activities and pronouncements:
• The WDCs have resolved to ensure relevance to new
ICSU programs including GEO/GEOSS, IPY and eGY
• WDC Panel has asked the eGY participants to help with
certification of the WDCs. This certification is a result of
ICSU’s desire to have the WDCs become more effective
and relevant to ICSU programs.
• The eGY is preparing recommendations for ICSU for the
improvement and evolution of the WDCs
• eGY has representatives on the ICSU Strategic
Committee for Information and Data (SCID) which will
make recommendations to ICSU on the future of the
WDC system by October 2008.
International eGY Conference Held
Conference agenda
1. IGY: scientific results 50 years later
2. Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) and its
prolongation
3. International Polar Year (IPY), International
Geophysical Year
4. Contemporary problems of geoinformatics in
the changing world
5. Natural calamities and risks in the modern
world
6. Global changes and climate
7. Russian-French research on the Earth’s
physics, geodynamics, volcanology and
seismic danger estimate based on satellite
and terrestrial technology
• Declaration from the Conference to
be issued soon
• First meeting of the Ad-Hoc CODATA
Working Group for the eGY
www.eSWua.ingv.it
The eSWua system supports the acquisition, elaboration, evaluation, sharing and
archiving of multi-instruments observations of the ionized atmosphere. A dynamic
web site has been recently opened for a real-time access to these data. eSWua is
a contribution to those international projects where the interoperability of the
system and effective data access are necessary requirements, such as Virtual
Observatories and ICESTAR.
GPS for weather and space weather forecast: Cross-link between
ICESTAR/IHY and POLENET
Contact: [email protected]; [email protected]
Polar-ionosphere imaging over Antarctica using GPS data is of great challenge due to poor
coverage of ground-based GPS receivers. However, as the POLENET network has been proposed,
the study of the ionosphere over the southern polar cap by radio tomography becomes promising.
The new imaging technique, MIDAS (Bath Un.-UK), assimilates different kind of data (ionosondes,
backscattering radars, GPS data and scintillation indices), and ingests also models to reconstruct
the spatial-temporal condition of the ionospheric plasma.
Ray paths between GPS
satellites and ground receivers
from current and planned
POLENET sites.
Madrigal data in AstroGrid HelioScope
•
AstroGrid (www.astrogrid.org) is the UK VO project,
part of IVOA (www.ivoa.net ).
•
HelioScope is a tool allowing retrieval of a variety of
Solar System data for a specified time range
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Based on a standard protocol for time-range queries:
STAP
http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/SimpleTimeAccessProtocol
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Data from the Madrigal database has been linked up
with HelioScope via STAP.
Madrigal data in HelioScope:
IPY Cluster Project #63
Heliosphere Impact on Geospace
Kick-off Workshop, Finnish Meteorological Institute
Helsinki, Finland, 5-9 February 2007
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IPY Data Management:
How one can deploy a Virtual
Observatory in Cyberspace?
Vladimir Papitashvili
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
University of Michigan
Dear Bernd,
An input from China to your presentation:
Chinese Geophysical Society has formed a group for Chinese
participation in eGY, somehow like a national committee. Recently
Prof. Chen Yong, vice president of CGS, gave a talk to the society at
its 60th anniversary, introducing to eGY.
Chinese geophysicists link the activities of eGY and IGY+50 to
education and publicity. Acordingly a series activities have been
planned, trying to enhance the public understanding of geophysics.
Have fun,
Zhongliang Wu
Greetings from Chiang Rai, Thailand.
As a member of the eGY Africa Region group, I have recently
presented a keynote address here in Thailand on Remote
Sensing for Biogenic Disaster Management, in Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso at the GEOSS Workshop on Public Health
Applications of Space-Based Technology, at the UNIDO Center
of Excellence for Environmental Management in Owerri,
Nigeria, subsequent seminars in Lesotho and Swaziland and will
serve as keynote speaker at the GIS Day event at Indiana
University, Bloomington.
I look foward to serving eGY and its Africa group with
enthusiasm.
-Gilbert Rochon. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
USA. Director, Purdue Terrestrial Observatory
Dear Bernd,
Some points you could make are
1. IUGG has proposed that a Union Commission be established to deal with some
eGY-related issues and functions after December 2008.
2. CODATA has approved the formation of a Working Group "eGY Earth and
Space Science Interoperability". Alexei Gvishiani is the chair.
3. Our collection of showcase demonstrations is growing and becoming
increasingly effective for demonstrating modern capabilities for providing access
to data and services. What can WGISS contribute?
4. e-Africa: we are proceeding with a plan to survey present cyber-infrastructures
for science in Africa, with a view to applying pressure through the Inernational
Scientific community for improvements. (The reason is that modern ICT systems
provide marvellous opportunities for engagement by African scientists, but poor
internet access poses a big limitation.)
5. Is WGISS interested in participating in the Earth & Space Science Informatics
(Geoinformatics?) Summit we are organising in Rome 13-14th March 2008?
(draft plan attached).
Have fun, Charlie