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ESIP Federation Activities
Rob Raskin
NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Earth Science Information Partner
(ESIP) Federation
• Networking consortium of 120
organizations that provide or add value to
Earth system science data/information
• Initially formed by NASA, but now
independent entity
• Membership open to any organization, after
application and approval processes
• Almost entirely US-based
ESIP Membership Types
• Type 1
– Raw data providers
– Archive centers, mostly NASA and NOAA
• Type 2
– Science/research data product providers
• Type 3
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Commercial entities
Educational organizations
Planning agencies and decision makers
Service providers
Plus strategic funders, such as EPA, NASA, NOAA
Data Value Chain
• Raw data (Type 1)
– Primarily remote sensing observations
• Science data products (Type 2)
– Fully validated
– Quality controlled
– Vetted
• Applications (Type 3)
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Decision-making
Policy
Regulation
Commercial uses
Education
Expert testimony
Ready-to-use
Why Organizations Participate
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Broaden involvement
Use Cases
Community Standards
Share technology developments
Leverage what other Agencies/Organizations have
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– Lessons learned
• Testbeds
Networking Mechanisms
• Semi-annual meetings
• Committees (top-down origin; permanent status)
– Information Technology & Interoperability
– Products and Services
– Education
• Clusters and working groups (bottom-up origin; may be transient)
– Thematic
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Air quality
Water
Disaster
Climate
– Methodological
• Environmental decision making
• Semantic web
Environmental Decision-Making
Cluster
• Objectives
– Metrics
• What constitutes a good decision
– Better understanding of data requirements for
decision models
– Greater appreciation for the value of data in
decision-making
– Better tool interoperability
• Most decision support systems are stove-piped
Information Technology and
Interoperability Committee
• Objectives
– Encourage the use of best information technology
practices
– Ensure that data, information and services can be
readily exchanged and integrated
– Encourage the use of standards and protocols
relevant to interoperability
• Activities
– Convene technical workshops at Federation meetings
Air Quality Working Group
• Workshop on implementation of interoperability standards
• GEO AQ Community of Practice
Water Cluster
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Data integration and display tools
Semantic architecture
Ontology management
Use cases
Semantic Web Cluster
• Common ontologies for:
– Datatypes
– Data services
– Science/Application context
• Improve awareness of semantic interoperability
– Tutorials
– Use cases
• Community standards for ontology content
SWEET Ontology
• Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology
(SWEET)
– Purpose: to improve discovery and use of Earth-referenced data
• Upper-level ontology set for Earth system science
• 4000 concepts spanning Earth system science,
applications, and data
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Organized into 140 modular ontologies
Scalable to readily accommodate growth
Written in OWL-DL
Easily extended for specialized domains
• Long-term maintenance to be provided by the ESIP
Semantic Web Cluster
Math
Measurement
Systems
Geometry
Time
Scale
Geologic
Waves
Units
Spectrum
Solid
Space
Fluid
Direction
Object
Distribution Coordinates
Instrument
Chemistry
Gravity Fluid Dyn
Sound
Vector
Scale
System
ElecMag Dynamics
Radiation Thermo
Statistics
Science
Physics
Basic Science
Function
Biology
Element
Process
Plant
Animal
Compound
State
Ecosystem
Biome
Transport
Organic
Process
Particle
Atmosphere
Astronomy
Earth System
Science
Sun
Pressure
Planet
Wind
Stability Composition
Heliosphere
Climate
Cloud
Front
Precip
Mesoscale
Geography
ClimateZone
Border
Abstract to Applied
Hydrosphere
Petrology Tectonica
Dynamics Composition
Orogen
Volcano
Continental Oceanic
Resources
Basin
Ocean
WaterBody
Surface Groundwater
Cryosphere
Electric BoundaryLay
EarthReference
Applications
Geosphere
Soil
Coast
Geomorphol Landform
Data
Human
Representation
Commerce Impact EnvControl
Services
Agriculture Aviation Infrastruct
Environmental Ontologies
• 12 new modules for cross-cutting
environmental applications
• Supplements rather than replaces existing
air and water chemistry modules
Environment
Impact
Indicator
Regulation Standards
Decision
Protection
Sustainability Transport
Pollutant
Protection
Control
Assessment
SWEET Top Level View
More Info
• ESIP Web Site
– http://wiki.esipfed.org
• ESIP Collaboration Pages
– http://esipfed.org
• Upcoming ESIP Meetings
– Knoxville, TN July 20-23, 2010
• SWEET
– http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov