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GEOSS Interoperability for Weather Ocean and Water

GEOSS Common Infrastructure Evolution

EC Grant Agreement no. 282915

GEO-IX Plenary

Main objective: To evolve GEOSS for all stakeholders


Main Objectives

• GEOSS Infrastructure Evolution for all stakeholders (with a particular focus on the WOW SBAs), to:

• Facilitate discovery, access & use of …

Data (with a particular focus on the GEOSS Data Core) Other GEO-resources

• Allow harmonised access to heterogeneous resources; &

• Promote & simplify data sharing


GEOWOW Vision ooooo

GEO-IX Plenary


GEOWOW adopts a structured system engineering approach:

• User requirements from SBAs & across SBAs

GEOWOW adopts a structured system engineering approach:

• User requirements from SBAs & across SBAs

Approach

SIF, IIB

Current GCI

AIP, StP

Thorpex GOOS

• Technology base: considering prior development efforts (current GCI, Thorpex, GOOS, previous efforts o improve the GCI such as EUROGEOSS, GENESI-DECetc.) & from SBA-systems

• Technology base: considering prior development efforts (current GCI, Thorpex, GOOS, previous efforts o improve the GCI such as EUROGEOSS, GENESI-DECetc.) & from SBA-systems

• Constraints & recommendations: from relevant initiatives & standardization bodies (eg. GEO IIB, IEEE, OGC, INSPIRE, GMES, etc)

• Constraints & recommendations: from relevant initiatives & standardization bodies (eg. GEO IIB, IEEE, OGC, INSPIRE, GMES, etc)


GEOWOW Overview

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‘‘Evolved' architecture Evolved' architecture

properly tested and properly tested and

demonstrated within demonstrated within

GEOWOW SBA'sGEOWOW SBA's

GEO Ministerial 2013:GEO Ministerial 2013:

‘‘Evolved' architecture Evolved' architecture

properly tested and properly tested and

demonstrated within demonstrated within

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GEOWOW Overview


Showcases

#River Discharge - The Water & Weather SBAs are defining a scenario for an additional Showcase for prototyping additional components

#Droughts - Easy discovery & use of GEOSS resources for addressing multidisciplinary challenges related to drought scenarios

THEME[ENV.2011.4.1.3-1]: Inter-operable integration of shared Earth Observation in the

Global ContextDuration: Sept. 1, 2011 – Aug. 31, 2014

Total EC funding: 6,399,098.00 €Project Web Site: www.geowow.eu


GEOSS interoperability forGEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean and WaterWeather, Ocean and Water

S. GrimesS. Grimes, A. FischerIOC-UNESCO

P. GonçalvesP. Gonçalves, H. Caumont Terradue

J. van Bemmelen, R. Cossu, E. Li Santi

ESA

ShowcaseDeveloping environmental

indicators: ocean ecosystems

GEO IX PlenaryFoz de Iguacu, November 2012


Show-Case Introduction

- WP6 objective: 'to support research & development of marine assessments, through availability of information from ocean data, combined with model data to feed decision-support systems.’

–Goal: to simplify complex natural system and human system interactions into indicators useful for scenarios, identification of decision points, & development of policy and management

–Science Indicators Assessment for policyMultidisciplinary (natural and social) science expert group helps in

identification of available global data sets, model outputs, & to develops methodologies for combining them into indicators/maps

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Value to Stakeholders?

•More flexible development environment;

•More up-to-date & more focused indicators for ocean ecosystems;

•Better inform policy & management strategy, as well as to raise attention on importance of monitoring;

•Provide services for implementing extension points towards GEOSS capability

Various Stakeholders: decision-makers, developers of ocean assessments, ocean scientists & value

adding companies.

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Coral Reefs – Threats from Local Activity (2011)

Coral ecosystem services: food, income, habitat for commercially viable fish species, tourism, shoreline protection

Corals at risk from both local stressors (over-/destructive fishing, coastal development, watershed and marine-based pollution) & climate change &

variability (temperature stress, ocean acidification, fast sea level rise)Local stressors: blue-low, yellow-medium, red-high


Scenario

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Scenario - TASKS

•Vulnerability of corals to local sea level change is greater than their potential growth rates

•Regional sea level rise projections vary tremendously

•Need to combine

1. Ocean ecosystem data: coral reef location & vulnerabilities (WRI)

2. Climate data: sea level rise projections from present out to 50 years (WCRP/CMIP5) – require ensemble calculations

•Calculations refining indicators

PRODUCT:Maps & graphics

for policy


A Vision For GEOSS• Present situation

– expert scientific advice identifies the required datasets

– discovery: we can look in the GEO portal, but most data required is already known

– data usage rights are dealt with each individual provider if there are restrictions

– downloads of individual datasets to local computing (repeatedly in case of evolving indicators)

– calculations: on individual datasets, mostly for each needed spatial reference system transforms

– heavy algorithm management & chaining for each host workflow & data input

– web platforms designed to specific audiences, but live only as long as the project

• Future GEOSS infrastructure?

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HOW IT WORKS: 1. Cloud Sandbox Provisioning

• Scientist browses data & services using its Community Portal extensions & selects experiment resources: datasets URLs, development tools

• Once done, the Community Portal triggers the creation of a complete Virtual Machine (VM): a Cloud Sandbox development environment

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For an experiment: keystore, user disk, application

disk, datasets URL references… into a sandbox

Virtual Machine

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HOW IT WORKS: 2. Data & Processor Validation

• Still from Community Portal, the Scientist instructs the ‘VM Store’ to boot a managed instance of the newly created developer’s Sandbox

• Scientist develops & validates algorithms within its Cloud Sandbox, with access to dataset samples required for application testing

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• After validation, Scientist deploys algorithms to a selected Cloud Infrastructure

• The deployed ‘Processor as a Service’ accesses complete pools of datasets, runs application intensive computing, & stores processor outputs back to the lab

HOW IT WORKS: 3. Cloud Compute Provisioning

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HOW IT WORKS: 4. Sharing of Scientific Experiments & Results

• Scientist readily shares its Sandbox VM work (can include GCI registration) with the scientific community for repeatable scientific experiments

• Data Product results are registered in the GCI, & shared towards decision makers through Community Portals

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Strategic Plan

Establish multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure

Identify and adopt policies for trust, security and privacy

Create governance structure

Define funding schemes

Strategic Plan

Establish multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure

Identify and adopt policies for trust, security and privacy

Create governance structure

Define funding schemes

To support the computing capacity

needs for the ATLAS experiment

To support the computing capacity

needs for the ATLAS experiment

Setting up a new service to simplify analysis of large

genomes, for a deeper insight into evolution

and biodiversity

Setting up a new service to simplify analysis of large

genomes, for a deeper insight into evolution

and biodiversity

To create an Earth Observation platform,

focusing on earthquake and

volcano research

To create an Earth Observation platform,

focusing on earthquake and

volcano research

A European cloud computing partnership: big science teams up with big business


Showcase Components’ interactions


a vision for GEOSS• Present situation

– expert scientific advice identifies the required datasets

– discovery: we can look in the GEO portal, but most data required is already known

– data usage rights are dealt with each individual provider if there are restrictions

– downloads of individual datasets to local computing (repeatedly in case of evolving indicators)

– calculations: on individual datasets, mostly for each needed spatial reference system transforms

– heavy algorithm management & chaining for each host workflow & data input

– web platforms designed to specific audiences, but live only as long as the project

• Future GEOSS infrastructure?– expert scientific advice identifies the

required datasets– assembly: needed datasets are

assembled on demand into the GEOSS infrastructure (into a cloud?)

– data usage rights are globally registered for scientific use of cloud computing infrastructures

– data as a service can live & remain ‘in the cloud’, for the application of algorithms and calculation of indicators

– calculations: modular infrastructure components allow the exchange and reuse of scientist’s workspaces

– repeatable environments allow for easy updates (in time or with new concepts) & scientific sharing

– interactive ‘live’ web platform output maps & graphics readily part of the GCI: a legacy for other users

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Benefits for generic scenarios

• A specific example that can be generalized, eg:– adding projections of ocean acidification– combining sea level projections & detailed human population

projections for indicators of vulnerability– mapping human impact (climate, fishing) on ocean biodiversity

concentration to identify ‘hotspots’– addressing indicators of ‘good environmental status’ under the EU

Marine Strategy Framework Directive– creating indicators of water scarcity & human dependence from

hydrological & social data

• Temporary infrastructure needed; no need to maintain daily computing infrastructure & sharing results and tools with the wider GEOSS community

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An exciting future!

•The coral reef scenario presents a real demonstration of:– Easily producing relevant & accurate assessment indicators for

use by policy makers;– Using completely scalable cloud computing to process

extensive algorithms;– Setting up a domain for ‘repeatable’ calculations; &– Using the latest computing technology to assist ocean

management decisions.

The methods can be translated easily to other ocean & earth science contexts to improve environmental

management decisions & ultimately, sustainable development.

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THEME[ENV.2011.4.1.3-1]: Inter-operable integration of shared Earth Observation in the

Global ContextDuration: Sept. 1, 2011 – Aug. 31, 2014

Total EC funding: 6,399,098.00 €Project Web Site: www.geowow.eu


GEOSS interoperability forGEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean and WaterWeather, Ocean and Water

ShowcaseElaborating environmental

indicators: ocean ecosystems

GEO IX PlenaryFoz de Iguazu, November 2012

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Documents

ocean data

stakeholders slide

data sharing slide

different communities

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data discovery

model data

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