GEO Interoperability (Virtual) Workshop III: A Look Into the Future of GEOSSOctober 18-19, 2011, Webex

Interoperability and Data Networking Facilitated by the

GEO Air Quality Community of Practice

Contact: Rudolf Husar, rhusar@wustl.edu

Air Quality & Health Applications

AQ Obs. & Modles

Emission

Model

Satellite

Monitorig Network

Data Pool

AQ Benefits

Informing the Public

Protecting Health

Global Policies

Atmosph. Science

Users need easy access to observations and modelsA major contribution would be a reliable, trusted data pool

Air Quality Data Network (ADN• AQ CoP developed open source

Community WCS server • Used CF-netCDF and custom AQ

conventions• Installed server @ 7 data hubs

• Developed open source Community Catalog

• Used ISO 19115 and AQ-specific conventions

• Interoperable with GIcat and GCI

ADN Data Pool Content:

20 Diverse, Distributed Datasets250 Observation/Model ParametersContribution as CORE data, AIP-4

AQ Data Sharing Network

AQ Community Data Catalog

Summary

• AQ Data Network (ADN) demonstrates the application of GEO principles and GEOSS infrastructure

• ADN is still too fragile and incomplete for ‘real’ applications

• The road toward integrated data systems will be long, bumpy and littered with wrecks of well-intended attempts

• The main impediments appear to be human factors; the solutions will have to deal with turf, trust, jealousy…

Networking Air Quality Observations and Models:From Virtual to Real

Aug. 2011, Šolta, Croatia

See Workshop Wiki for Details, Contacts: Rudolf Husar, rhusar@wustl.edu; Martin Schultz, m.schultz@fz-juelich.de

Workshop Goals:

Assessed the current state of the networkShare best practices on interoperabilityAdvance the state of the AQ Data Network

Participants were practitioners of AQ data systems from Europe and US• Managers and programmers of major AQ data hubs• Interoperability and networking experts• Represented 18 organizations, many Integrating Initiatives

Earth Ob-servations

Emission

Model

Satellite

Monitorig Network

Societal Benefit

Informing the Public

Protecting Health

Global Policies

Atmosph. Science

Info system has to support users along the value chain:Data Distributors, Decision Systems and Science Teams

Measure & Model

Earth Obs. & Modeler

EO Service Provider

Discipline Scientist

Health&Env. Analyst

Decision Making

EnvPolicy & Manager

InfoProc. & Distributor

Sci & Know Creation

Decision Support

Spectrum of User Communities and their Activities

Gary Foley, US EPA

Data Hubs

CIERA DataFedEBASMACCVIEWS....

ACDISCAirBaseAIRNowAQSDLRGISCLANCERSIG+++ others

AIRNowBlueSkyCIAMINSPIREPEGASOSSDS-WASVIEWS …Others

Earth Ob-servations

Emission

Model

Satellite

Monitorig Network

Data Pool

ABCAC&CAeroCOM AQASTAQMEII CCI-Aerosol PEGASOS TF-HTAP Others ...

ABC | AQ_CoP | B.GN | CHIST |CIERA | COST |CyAir DataONE | EANET | EGIDA | ESIP | EuroGEOSS | INSPIRE | QA4EO

ScienceTeams

Decision Support

Facilitators Societal Benefit

Informing the Public

Protecting Health

Global Policies

Atmosph. Science

The main contributors and beneficiaries of the Data Pool are‘Integrating Initiatives’

Air Quality & Health Applications

AQ CoP needs to

connect and enable

‘Integrating Initiatives’HTAP, MACC, ACP, CyAir…

Support Interoperability of People!

GEO AQ CoP is a self- organized group working together to foster application of Earth observations to Air Quality, connecting GEO to the broader user communities and leveraging synergies of collaboration. Rather than competing, it connects and supports the activities of other data integration and dissemination initiatives. Community activities include teleconferences; collaborative website; virtual workshops; gathering user requirements; recording best practices; participation in GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilots and supporting several GEO Tasks.

The main tangible output facilitated by the AQ CoP is the emerging network of interoperable air quality/atmospheric composition data servers (currently 7) that use international OGC WCS/WMS standard data access protocols. The main role of the CoP is to connect and enable this network, as a System of Systems for Air Quality guided by: What few things must be the same so that everything else can be different? The content of the network's data and metadata is accessible through a distributed catalog of shared data resources. The core network content includes datasets from surface-based monitoring networks (7), satellite sensors (5), as well as global/regional models (3), including the MACC global aerosol model.