Extending Partnerships

Sponsored By: Building Bridges to Strengthen Linkages Between User-Stakeholders and Scientific Tool Developers

Carol Meyer, Foundation for Earth Science

Contributions by: Karl Benedict, EDAC/UNM; Ken Keiser, UAH; Jerry Pan, ORNL March 7, 2008

ESIP Federation

   Consortium of 100+ Earth Science-Related Partners Formed in 1998 by NASA  NOAA and NASA funded  EPA, USGS and NSF also involved Data- and technology-centric community  Membership spans continuum of interests  Neutral forum for community networking, collaboration & problem solving

Earth Science Elements As Described By the Decadal Survey*

Areas of NRC Concern

Information Technology Observation Research Application

ESIP 1s

Sectors / Domains

ESIP 2s ESIP 3s Information Requirements ESIP Bridges

*National Research Council. 2007.

Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond

. Washington. 437 p. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11820.html

Primary Interests

   Making data usable and accessible Increase use of Earth science data and information Leveraging existing and new technologies to improve flow of data and information

Web Services

   Standard data architecture used Web services sit on top of the architecture  Gain flexibility  Reusable components Technology capabilities are conceptual models for application to other systems

Observation to Research

  Oak Ridge National Lab and NOAA NCDC Land Surface Temperature Service  Facilitate inter comparison of satellite & ground based data sets  Web Service (SOAP) with additional visualization capability  Experimental product http://daacdap dev.ornl.gov/FixSites7x7/services/ModisLS T?wsdl

Research to Applications

 Information Technology and Systems Center, UAH Hurricane Information Archive     Enables data searching and ordering Web services (OGC WMS & WFS standards) Created for SURA SCOOP program http://score.itsc.uah.edu/maps erv?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION= 1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&R EQUEST=GetCapabilities&TYPE NAME=WFS_HURRICANE

End-to-End Data & Information Delivery

  Earth Data Analysis Center at UNM    Performs data acquisition, processing and analysis and for delivery into decision support systems Tiered services oriented architecture (OGC WCS and WMS; W3C SOAP) Used in Public Health decision making http://phairs-devel.unm.edu/cgi bin/mapmodule_client.py

Other Technical Activities

  On-going development efforts    Semantically-Enabled Web (Noesis search tool) Interoperable Portal Technologies (JSR 168 standard – EIE) Data and Service Registries (GCMD, ECHO) On-going topics of interest   Data archiving Provenance  Data Quality

Why Work Together?

    Synergy leveraging existing tool capabilities Model reanalysis work will affect everyone in the community ESIP Federation community can be a partner in dialogue and action Summer Meeting    July 15-18, 2008 University of New Hampshire www.esipfed.org/events

Questions?

Carol Meyer (general questions) [email protected]

919-870-7140 Karl Benedict (technology questions) [email protected]

505-277-3622 x234