SEEDS Technology Infusion Study

ESIP Federation SEEDS Cluster Group Meeting:

SEEDS Capability Vision Development

ESTO & SEEDS - Karen Moe <karen.moe@gsfc.nasa.gov>

SEEDS - David Isaac <david.isaac@teambps.com>

www.earth.nasa.gov & esto.nasa.gov/aist

NASA Earth Science Technology Office

Strategic Evolution of ESE Data Systems

May 14, 2002

Presentation to ESIP, 5/14/02 Page 2

SEEDS Technology Needs and Infusion Plans – Karen Moe (Study Lead)

Purpose of Study Determine processes by which

technology needs are identified and technology investments are infused into the evolving SEEDSLeverage ESTO AIST processesInvolve ESE user community

Determine roles of ESTO AIST and SEEDS with regard to prototyping needs

Schedule Identify preliminary list of

11/06/01 NewDISS technology drivers

ESTO Technology Workshop 01/09/02 draft SEEDS technology needs 05/01/02

SEEDS Capabilities Vision workshop 06/15/02 draft vision 09/01/02

Develop draft technology plan 06/01/02

Identify draft approach to 09/01/02 SEEDS technology infusion

Technology Development and 12/30/02 Infusion Plan

Approach Evaluate the ESTO AIST strategic planning

process to assess applicability to SEEDS to support technology needs and investments

Articulate a SEEDS technology planning process

Create SEEDS capabilities vision via community input Identify SEEDS scenarios for 2010+ to

characterize needed capabilitiesResults will drive technology needs database

Work with Standards & Interfaces for Future ESE Missions study group to develop SEEDS technology infusion planResearch “best practices” Investigate procurement options

Status Held Workshop Jan. 9-10, 2002 and

currently analyzing inputs

SEEDS vision discussion at ESIP meeting May 14

Preparing for SEEDS Public Workshop vision discussion June 17

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SEEDS Technology Study - SEEDS CAPABILITIES VISION

Purpose Ensure that the technology needs of SEEDS are incorporated into the AIST

program Ensure that technologies developed under the AIST program and elsewhere

are incorporated into systems in the SEEDS era

Scope & objectives Define and conduct community-based processes to:

Identify needed technical capabilities in the SEEDS era Define technology infusion approaches (focus on TRL 7-10)

Identify needed capabilities that will support the ESE vision

Context to prompt our thinking on SEEDS capabilities vision Related ESIP NewDISS/SEEDS Prototypes ESIP Oriented Scenarios for the Future Barriers and Challenges AIST Investment Themes and Technology Trends ESE Science Goals

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What Capabilities are Needed? ESIP PROTOTYPES / SCENARIOS

MODster & DODster: Distributed, Decentralized MODIS Data & Services

Standards Framework in Support of Dynamic Assembly of NewDISS Components

Universal Interchange Technology for Earth Science Data and Services (UNITE)

Air quality modeling?

Weather prediction?

Disaster response?

Precision agriculture?

Regional Remote Sensing Applications?

Education?

State & Local government?

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What Capabilities are Needed? IDEAS FROM ESIP DISCUSSIONS (5/13/02)

Dynamic ToolkitsKeyed to where the customer base is goingSupport easy access / ready use of ES data/information

productsServices (algorithms) to support dynamic modelingSuggest a study to characterize a suite of tools needed to

enable use of data and intermediate productsTools for consensus and digression development

Trusted Data ProductsWeb will be transporting petabytes/sec in 2010 (bandwidth &

processing power will be there to meet future demands)Evolve a new paradigm for science processing?

Need process for research products to become trusted, known entities

Once accepted, practicing professionals will use IF barriers are solved: easy access/appropriate subsets, data on demand, integrated products

Handling duplicate data sets (eg, watermarking techniques to track what part of data set changed)

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What Capabilities are Needed? IDEAS (continued)

Web ThrottlingPeer-to-peer interchange will be common place in 2010; easy

to saturate net, cpusNeed ESE-smart approaches that mediate impact on Web

Determine what are the consequences of requests and how best to handle them

Locating DataDAAC customers (researchers, ESIP-2, ESIP-3) have different

access and delivery needsProduct catalog is key to locating data

Methods to use the inherent structure of the data to locate the data (ie, find data like my target data set)

Data Transformation“Semantic Web” for data, moving data from source to

applicationStructural transformers / “aggregation” servers to tailor data

delivery for specific communities

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Backup: Capability Needs Information Model

SEEDS Capability

Vision

ESE Strategic

Plan

Capability Needs

Current & Projected Barriers

NASA Funded

Research (NRAs, BAAs)

Tech Deployment Demos?

Technology Approaches

Scenarios

Investment Themes

Related Research (DARPA,

etc)

Trends

Categorize

Categorize

Drives

Contains

Drive

Employ/Explore

Categorize

Are Demo’ed In