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Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth
Observing System (SIOS)
Georg Hansen (SIOS Coordinator)
Research Council of Norway (RCN), Oslo
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SIOS in a nutshell
• Build up an interdisciplinary environmental research
infrastructure capable of observing the Earth system
in the Arctic and providing the observational basis
for verification of Earth System models in this region
• The central European element of a Sustained Arctic
Observing System (SAON) and an Arctic node of the
environmental ESFRI projects
• Central element: SIOS Knowledge Centre – the core
infrastructure collecting, aggregating and qualitycontrolling the observational data and providing
them to the user/stakeholder community
• For more details: see SIOS presentation at:
http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1234130481050&pagename=sios%2FHovedsidemal
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SIOS Conceptual Structure
Selected end
users: Policy
makers, NGOs
ACIA
IPCC
Integrating
platform
Observational
platforms
Selected
contributing
organizations
European government policy boards
EU
Knowledge
Centre
Atmospheric
UNIS
NP
AWI
Marine
Terrestrial
CNR
IGFPAS NERC
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AARI
PRIC
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The SIOS Knowledge Centre
The main integrating element and
exhibition window of SIOS
• Data handling, storage and delivery
(mostly as a portal, but with option of
physical data centre), including access to
Earth Observation segment (satellite
data)
• Interface between scientific platforms
and user/stakeholder community
• Facilitator for scientific integration
(interdisciplinary activities, ESS)
• Education and training on graduate and
under-graduate levels
• Public outreach activities
• Coordination and service functions
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Extensive infrastructure in place
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Research organizations from 15 countries are present on a regular basis, operating a
wide variety of land and sea-based facilities.
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Norway has established an international university in Longyearbyen with students
and staff from 25 countries.
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Ny-Ålesund has been developed into an international, high standard field station
focusing on environmental and climate research.
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Svalbard is accessible all year round because of its advanced community
infrastructure and its relatively mild climate.
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Svalbard has the highest available data bandwidth in the High Arctic.
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SIOS – Time Schedule
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9 December, 2008: SIOS on revised ESFRI Roadmap
3 December, 2009: submission of SIOS Preparatory Phase proposal
Spring 2010: proposal accepted, contract negotiations with EC
Summer 2010 – summer 2013: SIOS Preparatory Phase project: clarification
of legal status, governance structure and financial strategy and business
plan, plus other strategic processes
• From 2013 (at latest): SIOS implementation phase
• From end of 2013: SIOS operational phase (since much infrastructure
already in place)
• WPs SIOS-PP:
WP 1 – PP Project Management (RCN)
WP 2 – Legal and Governance Structure (RCN)
WP 3 – Financial Strategy (RCN)
WP 4 – Infrastructure Access Policy (NPI)
WP 5 – Logistics Plan (IGFPAS)
WP 6 – Data Management and Utilization Plan (AWI)
WP 7 – Earth Observation Strategy (NSC)
WP 8 – Internal Integration Strategy (UNIS)
• WP 9 – International Cooperation and Integration (CNR)
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ICT vision
• Two major components of SIOS:
– The observational infrastructure – to a large degree existing, multi-national
ownership (national polar stations of 12 (15) nations on Svalbard)
– The envisaged overarching structure of the SIOS Knowledge Centre providing
a ”one-stop” access to (multi-disciplinary, multi-level) environmental/ Earth
System data from the Svalbard region: the true core and innovative element
of the ESFRI infrastructure
• Easy access to a wide spectre of environmental data with (self-explaining)
formats which are as uniform as possible
• Tie SIOS to similar distributed data sharing frameworks, such as INSPIRE,
WIS, GEOSS, DOK-IPY
Objectives WP6
The main objective of WP 6 is to build up an effective, easily accessible data management system which is fully
compatible with and makes use of existing data handling systems in the thematic fields covered by SIOS. The second
major goal is to develop a strategy and propose practical means how to facilitate and promote the utilization of these
data in research and other user communities. In practice, the SIOS Data Management System (SDMS) will be a
functionality-enabling component of the Knowledge Centre, supporting data submission, discovery, access, use and
preservation of SIOS relevant data sets …
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ICT requirements
 Very broad spectrum of input data:
• Many different scientific disciplines with largely varying amounts of data and
traditions of data handling
• Observation modes: ranging from single-event type measurements (scientific
research rockets) via (short-term) campaigns, e.g. research vessel expeditions, to
long-term regular (and formalized) monitoring programmes
• Data collection modes: ranging from manual input, e.g. in case of species
population parameters, to automatically recorded large data streams (e.g., GHG
flux measurements, ionospheric observations, on-line oceanographic recording)
• Varying degrees of data quality assessment, validation and treatment
 Output data:
• Should serve both the Earth System Modelling community, monitoring and longterm surveillance activities and general public information, while considering
data protection and time embargo issues for some of the data sets
• Format and other delivery requirements from the modelling community a very
important aspect!
• Has to be harmonized with other relevant data sharing framewokss, such as DOKIPY, GEOSS, INSPIRE etc.
 In summary: SIOS needs a flexible and highly modularised data
management system
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ICT architecture
• Technical details can only be worked out when the
observational set is defined and the user community
(especially ESM community) has defined its requirements!
• Envisaged elements:
– (one-way: data extraction) portal structure (most of the data sets),
mirroring existing thematic data bases,
– physical data storage facility
– easily accessible and treatable human and machine interfaces to
metadata and data
– Helpdesk
Task 6.3 Utilisation of relevant existing data centres and archives
SIOS will have to consider internationally distributed data management systems that are currently supported by
interoperability efforts like INSPIRE, GEOSS, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), WGISS, Global
Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), SEADATANET and WMO Information System (WIS). These efforts utilise a
number of interoperability standards and semantics. Many (SIOS) scientists are already committed to some of
these networks and it is not intended that SIOS should duplicate efforts, but cooperate with existing data
management systems and link to these in a seamless way ...
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Current Status & Timeline
• Current status of ICT planning: proposal of further design
work and financial planning in the frame of SIOS-Preparatory
Phase project, to be started in fall 2010
• Instrumentation/observation gap analysis process in progress;
to be finalized by December 2010
• Based on this analysis: concrete inventory of data provision
circumstances (amount, format, delivery date, level of analysis
etc.)
• dialog process with ESM community started, first conclusions
by early 2011
• First cost estimate of Knowledge Centre implementation early
2012, assessments of operational costs by end of 2012
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Challenges and Suggestions
• Major unresolved challenge: how to meet the large diversity
of data streams in a way that satisfies the as diverse needs of
the scientific communities involved
• None of the communities has the capacity/ experience to
handle the whole spectrum of data exchange or even to make
the systems compatible
• Any new system has to take into account established data
streams of existing international monitoring programmes
• In particular: integration of ”in-situ/near-surface” data and
satellite remote-sensing data for inter-comparison and joint
use purposes
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