ESIP Air Quality Cluster

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ESIP Air Quality Cluster
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ESIP Federation

• A Network of Diverse Organizations Working
  Together to Bring Earth Observation Information
  to Bear on Environmental Research, Education and
  Decision-Making

June 12, 2007
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Milestones

• 1998 - ESIP Formed by NASA in Response to a NRC
  Recommendation for Community Involvement in
  EOSDIS.
• 2003 Evolved Plan to Become a Broad-Based
  Inter-Disciplinary Collaborative Forum
  (Cyberinfrastructure) for the Earth Science
  Information Community.
• 2004 - NOAA/NESDIS Becomes Second Strategic
  Partner.
• 2007 EPA becomes Third Strategic Partner.
• 2003-2007 Membership Grows from 24 to 103
  Entities.

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Continuum of Interests
StormCenter Communications Earth Data Analysis
Center (UNM) ESRI

• Global Land Cover Facility (UMD)
• EOS-Webster (UNH)

EROS Data Center (USGS) National Climatic Data
Center (NOAA) Oak Ridge National Lab (NASA)
TERC New Media Studio Museum of Science
ARIA (University of Arizona) University of
Alabama in Huntsville (ITSC)
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Common Ground
Collaboration
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Strategic Goals

• Provide Leadership for the Earth Science Data
  Information Community.
• Promote Efficient Flow of Earth Science
  Information from Collection to End-Use.
• Improve the Quality and Usability of Earth
  Science Data and Information Systems.
• Increase the Use of Earth Science Data and
  Information.
• Expand Public Awareness of Earth Science Data and
  Information Systems.

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Challenges

• Bridging the Valley of Death between Research
  and Operations.
• Bridging the Grand Canyon between Researchers
  and Information Technologists.
• Bridging the Chasm between Public and Private
  Interests.
• Bridging the Gaps between Major Federal
  Agencies.
• Bridging the Ravine between the Earth Science
  Professionals and the General Public.

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Internal Organization

• VOLUNTEER DRIVEN Small Coordinating Staff
  Provided by the Foundation for Earth Science
• GOVERNANCE -Assembly/Executive Committee One
  Entity, One Vote Round Table Lets All Speak
  with Equal Weight.
• STANDING COMMITTEES
• - - - Products and Services - - Commercial
  Development
• - - - Information Technology and
  Interoperability
• - - - Education - - Community Engagement
• ISSUE AREA CLUSTERS US GEO Aligned
• - - -Air Quality - - Water Management - -
  Disaster Management
• - - Coastal Management - - - Ecological
  Forecasting - - - Climate
• WORKING GROUPS
• - - - Semantic Technologies - - Web Services
  - - - GIS

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External Outreach

• Provide Neutral Turf where Major Earth Observing
  Agencies Can Work Together with Other Community
  Interests to Advance Key National Objectives
• Provide a Broad-Based Community-of-Practice where
  Strategic Partners can Seek Advice, Generate New
  Collaborations and Cultivate New End-Users.
• Provide a Forum in which Inter-Agency,
  Inter-Disciplinary, Interoperability Problems can
  be Addressed and Resolved.
• Provide an Earth Information Exchange where the
  Products and Services of all ESIP Members can be
  Easily Found and Acquired.

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• Strategic Goals
• 1. Serve as facilitator and advisor for the
  Earth science information community.
• 2. Promote efficient flow of Earth science data
  from collection to end-use.
• 3. Improve quality and usability of Earth
  science data and information systems.
• 4. Expand the use of Earth science information
  get it to the decision-makers.
• 5. Educate the public about Earth science and
  science information systems.

ESIP Federation Clusters Clusters are formed by
a group of ESIP members to address a particular
problem of interest Intended to promote
informal, easy exchange of information among
partners
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ESIP Air Quality Cluster

• The objective of the ESIP Air Quality Cluster is
  to connect air quality data consumers with the
  providers of those data by
• bringing people and ideas together on how to
  deliver ES data to AQ researchers, managers and
  other users
• facilitate and demonstrate the information flow
  of from data providers to air quality consumers

data
tools,methods,services
users
a)
AQ Cluster brings together groups and builds
links among them in order to achieve an effective
use of data in decision-making that could not be
achieved by any organization acting on its own.
AQ Cluster aids in reuse of data, processing
tools and other services so that projects,
programs and agencies avoid the burden of
developing those capabilities or establishing
connections to them.
data
tools,methods,services
users
b)
. . .
c)
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The Air Quality Web Landscape (more of an
inventory at this point)
NASA Programs/Projects
Mediators

• REASoN (Friedl, Moe)
• WRAP (Ambrosia, Sullivan)
• EDAC (Morain, Benedict, Hudspeth)
• LAITS (Di, Yang)
• PM Management (Husar, Falke)
• ACCESS (Lindsay, Maiden)
• Giovanni (GSFC Kempler)
• DECISIONS (Friedl)
• 4D AQS (Hoffman)
• RS for BlueskyRAINS (Raffuse)
• AQ Forecasting (McHenry)
• ROSES (Moe)
• SAMITS (NGC - Falke)
• DAACS
• GIO (Cole, Yang, Alameh)

• DataFed (Husar)
• Unidata (Domenico, Ramamurthy)
• CDE (Ambrosia, Sullivan)
• Giovanni (Kempler, Leptoukh )
• LAITS (Di)
• RSG

Portals / Catalogs

• Earth Information Exchange (ESIP)
• Earth Observation Portal (GEO)
• Geospatial One Stop
• Earth Science Gateway (NASA)
• Environmental Science Connector (EPA)
• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
• ECHO
• LEAD

EPA Programs/Projects

• AMI (Young, Keating)
• GEO (Young, Washburn, Lyon, Foley)
• AirNOW (Dickerson)
• OAQPS (Scheffe, Frank, Dimmick, Solomon)
• IDEA (w/ NASA,NOAA) (Szykman)
• HTAP (Keating)
• Remote Sensing Gateway (Paulson, Walter)
• Environmental Science Connector (Kapuscinski)

Interoperability Efforts

• GALEON
• NASA GIO DAACS
• EPA AMI Coordination
• OGC GSN (demos)
• OGC OWS testbeds

NOAA Programs/Projects

• Air Quality Forecasting (Fine)
• NGDC (Haberman, Kozimor)
• Hazard Mapping System (Ruminski)

Forest Service Programs/Projects

• Bluesky (Goodrick, )

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DataFed Wiki Catalog/Data Access Descriptions
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Summer Meeting

• AQ Relevant Sessions
• AQ Demos
• GEO Near Term Opportunities
• AQ Cluster