Building an Air Quality Community Infrastructure and Connecting with the GEOSS Common Infrastructure

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Building an Air Quality Community Infrastructure
and Connecting with the GEOSS Common
Infrastructure

• Stefan Falke, Rudolf Husar, Erin Robinson, David
  McCabe, Frank Lindsay

GEO-VI Air Quality Meeting November 18, 2009
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Traditional Projects
Do something with the data (add value)
Generate Product
Data
Deliver Product to Customer
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Making Project Contributions ReusableSharing/Exch
anging with more than the primary customer
Deliver Product to Customer
Do something with the data (add value)
Generate Product
Data
Provide Website Access (manual)
Provide web service access
Provide access to processing/analysis/value-addin
g services
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DataFed Federated Data System for Distributed AQ
Data
http//datafedwiki.wustl.edu
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Giovanni
http//disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni
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RSIG
http//www.epa.gov/rsig
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Atmospheric Composition Portal

• Objectives
• Provide access, tools, and contextual guidance to
  scientists and value-adding organizations in
  using remotely sensed atmospheric composition
  data, information, and services
• Help foster interoperability and application of
  atmospheric composition data, information and
  services worldwide
• Identify the unique requirements and common
  (shared) features of ACC and GEOSS users to
  provide a value-added and complementary
  capability
• Work with partners in CEOS and the broader AC
  community in advancing the AC Portal

Task AR-09-02b
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Many other AQ related projects
List of US projects from the EPA Data
Summit http//wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/AQ_Data_
Systems_and_Processing_Centers Start of an
international compilation of project
descriptions http//wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/GE
OSS_Relevant_AQ_Projects
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A GEOSS Vision for Connecting Air Quality Projects
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Project A combines multiple data sources to
generate near-real time information for the public
Project A provides web service interfaces to some
of its data and information
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Project B analyzes surface and satellite data in
support of regulatory analysis and provides web
services to their analysis output and analysis
tools
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Project C provides a web services new data from
its work
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A new project uses services from projects A, B
and C to meet its objectives
New Project
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GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP),
Phase 2 Connecting communities with the GEOSS
Common Infrastructure
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The Evolving AQ Community Infrastructure
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Example use of the GEOSS Common
InfrastructureGraphical user interface to the
GEOSS ClearinghouseFiltered for AQ related
content uFIND
http//webapps.datafed.net/AQ_uFIND.aspx
Search for AQ data
Return AQ metadata
filtered AQ metadata available to other
applications through RSS, atom, etc.
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Ways to participate

• Community Building
• Share your interests and project contributions
  (like this meeting)
• Use ESIP and other air quality communities of
  practice to advance your project objectives
  (e.g., built-in testers, users)
• Help define the GEOSS GCI and/or Community of
  Practice
• Enhance the Information Infrastructure
• Become a node on the air quality
  interoperability network
• Learn best practices in implementing standards
  for sharing your project data and tools
• Participate in (and shape) the GEOSS Architecture
  Implementation Pilot
• Use the AQ Community Information Architecture
  (register your services in GEOSS, find
  information resources useful for your project)
• Participate in the development of air quality
  information networks
• Collaborate on AQ Science and Research Projects
• Define projects that leverage expertise and
  capabilities across organizations
• Document how data, information and capabilities
  are shared in the project