CEOS WGISS & Subgroups Meeting
USGS EROS Data Centre, South Dakota
7-11 May 20001
(Edward.King@eoc.csiro.au)
Introduction
Both the WGISS subgroups and the WGISS itself met at USGS during the week of 7-11 May. A major reason for the joint meeting was to permit the much closer interaction between WGISS and the Subgroups which was necessary to flesh out more of the good, the bad and the ugly arising out of the WGISS Test Facility development so far, particularly the interaction with GOFC. Since the Bangkok meeting last year, the WTF idea has taken off and received enthusiastic endorsement from CEOS plenary. This joint meeting was an excellent opportunity to consolidate on the momentum achieved so far. John Townsend from GOFC attended the meeting for about 24 hours and provided key input from a user perspective during a state-of-the-Facility session.
Essentially WGISS met all day on the Monday and on Friday morning, and the majority of the intervening period was taken up with SG activity. However, WGISS seemed to keep popping up during the week in the WTF discussions. Overall this made for a somewhat cramped agenda with probably insufficient time available for all the SG business. In spite of this, the closer interaction between the WGISS and SGs that resulted was almost certainly worth it. The assembled masses resolved to try and hold at least one joint meeting a year in future.
John Faundeen and USGS did a brilliant job of hosting and supporting the meeting. They set a standard that, in every respect, will be difficult to better.
These notes are not definitive. They were compiled by me as best I could during the meetings. Most presentations I attended are included, though I did not attend any of the Network or other meetings that ran in parallel to the Access SG meetings so these are not covered here. Where handouts are mentioned in the notes, you can get hardcopies from me.
As always, the information on this page is subject to the standard CSIRO Legal Notice and Disclaimer.
Useful links to supplement these notes can be found at http://wgiss.ceos.org
Quick links:
Day 1, Monday, 7 May
Don Lauer, Head of EROS Data Centre - Welcome
- Welcome to US, South Dakota and EROS Data Centre.
- USGS was involved in using remote sensing to pick landing sites on the moon.
- Lead to new appreciation of value of remote sensing
- USGS proposed EROS (Earth Resource Observation System (formerly Satellite))
- Ultimately NASA launched Landsat (originally ERTS - Earth Resources Technology Satellite) and USGS took care of the data.
- EDC site selected to be in centre of US (good Landsat tracking footprint). Carl Munt (Senator) made sure it was in South Dakota.
- Handles Landsat data, digital cartography, aerial photography.
- Currently receives 2 TB/week, soon to grow to 2 TB/day
- Located somewhere 'high' (in a Midwest sense) and distant from e/m interference (eg airport radar, tv)
John Faundeen, Logistics
See attachment B.
WGISS 12 Plenary
Peter Churchill
- First time we've held a joint WGISS/SG meeting
- Opportune because of progress with GOFC/WTF
- 6 apologies
- Focus of meeting is on taking concept of WGISS Test Env. forward
- V2.0 agenda (attach A)
- GOFC
- Some more iterations of agenda required but generally agreed.
- Minutes of last meeting (attachment C) (see WGISS website http://wgiss.ceos.org)
- Open action items (attachment D - WGISS-11 only):
- Most items from 9 are closed
- About 70% of items from 10 closed
- A CEOS business card will be produced (J. Faundeen)
- How many WGISS brochures are needed? (W. Cudlip) 1000 of the current brochure have been printed but a new one will be prepared and paid for by more agencies.
- WGISS Vice-Chair: How to choose new VC? (Terry & Peter). Vacancy widely announced in WGISS & CEOS. Recommendation is John Faundeen (supported by USGS - a new agency in CEOS). Supported unanimously by the meeting. Meeting generally agrees that this method (wide announcement followed by recommendation by Chair & Vice-Chair) is acceptable.
WGISS Promotion & Outreach - Richard Morris
- Web site suggestions to Richard
- Brochures - refer to Wyn Cudlip
- Terry Fisher - a lot of outreach happens via the IDN
CII Status and Plans - Hiroshi Ishiguro
- Long term goal - to provide comprehensive document and outreach material repository.
- http://www.ceos.org - Please review it, Comments to cii@eoc.nasda.go.jp
- Intent is to provide/promote links between CEOS observation agencies, funding agencies, science and standards communities.
- Provided support for CEOS Chair Agency.
- Some work to be done to streamline document access and download, mostly by cutting back on passwords and looking at clustering related documents.
- Target users: CEOS secretariat, Public, IGOS partners, CEOS groups
- CEOS CDROM fits in here somehow. Possibly include current CDROM as part of the CEOS consolidated report.
Relationship with OGC - Ken McDonald
NOTE: This was an excellent presentation - should try to get a copy or a link to it.
- Open GIS Consortium - not-for-profit organisation dedicated to open systems geoprocessing.
- http://www.opengis.org
- Members include: government, industry, academia
- Major activities: Formal specifications, Domain SIGS, interoperability programs (testbeds & pilot projects)
- EO Sig recently convened - Allan Doyle is co-chair with Arnold Hougham from PCI Geomatics
- Many CEOS members are also members of OGC (NASA, CCRS, DLR, NASDA/RESTEC....) but CEOS has no formal relationship.
Relationship With Standards Organisations - Wyn Cudlip
- BNSC (British National Space Agency) & DERA (to be privatised from 1 July and will be a government owned company): To be called QinetiQ
- ISO - mainly TC20/SC13 (CCSDS) and TC211 (5 main WGs & 33 projects underway)
- ISPRS ("Information from Imagery") - mixture of academic and commercial organisations
- Global Map & ISCGM- producing global data sets at 1km resolution (1:1000000) 3 vector data sets (drainage, transport, admin boundaries) and 3 raster (DEM, vegetation & land use)
- Other possible organisations: WSSN (World Standard Services Network), Joint Steering Group on Spatial Standardisation & Related Interoperability, +
Relationship With Other CEOS WGs - Peter Churchill
- CalVal is permanent.
- Disaster Management and Education are AdHoc.
- Possibility of WGCV participation in WGISS Test Facility is being explored.
- CD-ROM could be a link with Education WG.
- Disaster management - tenuous links
Chair's Report on CEOS Plenary 14 - Peter Churchill
- Rio de Janiero
- WGISS submitted report in advance
- Overall was very well received
- Test Environment concept presented
- EUMETSAT were very supportive - wanted to know how to help ($$$)
- BNSC praised it and offered resources
- IOC noted that concept of test environment is exactly what Ocean community needs
- NOAA very supportive, Disaster Mgmt interest
- NASDA extremely pleased with concept of Nakodo principle.
- WMO v. supportive - exactly what IGOS implementation needs
- WGISS achieved Plenary endorsement of WGISS Test Environment concept summary , approved WGISS report of GOIN evolution, involvement with terrestrial carbon theme, discussions with DMSG
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- Relationship with industry - plenary encouraged co-operative involvement of EO industry representatives in their activities.
- WGISS is to publicise the online menu of its products to members and associates.
- WGISS is to investigate the possibility of transferring WGISS tools to operational entities, including the private sector.
- Membership: USGS applied for membership of WGISS and was accepted. South Korea and Thailand both propose to join in the very near future.
- CEOS Review to:
- assess whether CEOS is still relevant, especially with regard to IGOS
- analyse success and shortcomings of structure and activities
- make recommendations to Plenary 15.
Message From The CEOS Chair - Furuhama (delivered by Shin-ichi Sobue)
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Increasing focus on IGOS-P
- it is important that all CEOS members stay informed
- IGOS-P is the NASDA priority for 2001; NASDA will lead the IGOS-P from June 2001
- To increase the visibility of IGOS & IGOS-P
- strengthening of formal links between IGOS-P and environmental convention secretariats (UN/CSD, IPCC, COP/SBSTA, etc)
- more effort publicising IGOS activities and achievements.
- Arising out of the IPCC 3rd assessment report, Working Group 1 "Climate Change - The Scientific Basis", there is clearly a need for data consistency.
- NASDA will encourage new membership, especially from Asian countries (S. Korea & Thailand) [Actually NASDA has received notice of an application from GISTDA in Thailand]
- The next Plenary will be in Kyoto from 6-8 November 2001
WGISS Test Environment - Status and Plans Overview, Peter Churchill
- Background
- WGISS has been dealing with how to develop ISS products and improve their take-up and availability
- Plenary is encouraging the WGs to get more closely involved with the user community [in fact they initiated the position of "User Vice Chair"]
- The Test Environment offers a framework under which WGISS will work in partnership with users.
- Benefits
- Users get access to tools and services, as well as technical expertise
- CEOS gets better data uptake
- WGISS get systems improvement
- Status
- Document prepared
- Well received by plenary
- WTE Task Team was established at WGISS 11 at Ispra (Oct 2000)
- Selection process for new WTFs is needed
- GOFC is the first partner
- well received by the scientific community
- initial contact has been made with other potential partners
- WGISS needs to decide on a process for managing this, and assimilating what we should do the same and differently in subsequent partnerships.
- Also, how do we achieve closure (decide when to stop)
- Kyoto Demo
- Plenary 14 expressed a desire to see a demo
The demo is going to be a very significant event. It will need to achieve a balance between WGISS & the partner project as well as addressing the needs of Plenary. Hopefully this week we will be able to draw conclusions on :
- whether the WTE has been a success
- what lessons have been learned
- who's next
- how do we achieve closure
- how to do the Kyoto demo
A WGISS strength is the underlying technical capacity, and this should remain an important feature of WGISS.
Introduction To GOFC WTF Status and Plans - Yonsook Enloe
- Stimulated by consideration of the GOIN and subsequent Nakado process
- Arose during 2000. Key meeting was of GOFC Scientific & Technical Board in Ottowa June 01
- TT formed at Thailand SG meeting
- Evolution - 3 - 5 years, use spiral development process to continue
- Who's involved: NASA, CCRS, ESA, JRC, NASDA, CNES, DLR, USGS, GISTDA, GOFC
- Monthly telecons with entire team. gofc-testbed@harp.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Many meetings in last 6 months while things get going.
- How does WTF support GOFC Science?
- Discussion of goals and scenarios at Thailand meeting and at meeting in Maryland
- How can WGISS support some of the GOFC priorities and goals?
- Need to define activity with characteristics part of GOFC goals and priorities / beneficial to CEOS/fits with agencies internal requirements
- No agency has an independent budget to support CEOS activities.
- What can WTF-GOFC do?
- provide better global awareness of GOFC
- CEOS co-ordination through human network
- facilitate CEOS agencies becoming wholesalers by providing access to GOFC data through the common interoperable interfaces. eg Landsat 7.
- Facilitate privately developed GOFC systems to use interfaces to get better access to GOFC data at CEOS agencies.
- Iterate on the supported set of interfaces to improve accessibility and capabilities.
- Provide references to tools (freeware & vendor)
- Provide technical consulting to facilitate adoption, use, or improvement of interfaces.
- Stage periodic high profile demonstrations of current capabilities
- Spin off tools and prototypes to operational environment for use
- Can we provide some training to GOFC regional network users on installation etc?
- Example so far is SE-Asia Regional GOFC network.
- Interaction has to maximise productivity, understanding but minimise time spent. Process needed?
- Understanding what each other's language means.
- Implied expectations are difficult.
- Important that both WGISS and GOFC both see benefit
- How to stage high profile demonstrations without consuming too many resources.
Introduction To Kyoto Plenary Demonstration - Shin-Ichi Sobue
- Chair expects to see WGISS demo with the following perspective:
- show WGISS capabilities and benefits
- support GOFC as IGOSS activity
DMSG - Levin Lauritson
- Where we're at - mostly requirements definition
- Where we're going - developing operational scenarios for specific hazards
- info tools - IDN/NEDI/FGDC products and services
- orbital tools - DESCW http://earth.esrin.esa.it:81/descw (NOTE: check this out - useful tool)
- training - visualisation tools
- Focus areas, eg RIO+10) - sub-Sahara Africa
- Future of DMSG is a little uncertain - currently a 1-year extension?
- National activity - National Hazard Information Strategy.
- leverages existing capabilities
Day 2, Monday, 8 May
Preamble - Peter Churchill
- We will rearrange the agenda again at length.
Network Performance TT - Andy Germain
Data Services TT - Bernhard Buckl
See also http://access.ceos.org./access/meetings/sd/data_services.html
- Activities since last meeting
- 3 telecons discussing current activities
- implemented WGISS Menu draft web site
- Implemented WTF-GOFC Menu (developers view)
- commented on ISO 19119
- Service Metadata
- growing number of services, registries, registry technologies
ISO TC211 Update - Lorant Czaran
- ISO Technical Committee for Geographic Information / Geomatics
- CD-2 much better reviewed by WGISS - some feedback passed back
WGISS Menu Update - Wyn Cudlip
- http://www.space.dera.gov.uk/ceos
- WGISS menu homepage + menu 1 (products/services/tools/recommendations) and menu2 (discovery/access/visualisation/analysis/global datasets/otheractivities)
- Results from Monday discussion:
- Who is target audience?
- Is there a clear distinction between tools and services
- Two menus may be confusing
- Beware use of acronyms
- Need search capability
- need recipe/cookbook examples
- issue over pointers to commercial products
CEOS IDN Analytical Resources/Useful Tools and Services - Dave Kendig
- SERF population currently in DB is around 220
- Questions from Bangkok
- Can a service be directly invoked? (eg DODS)
- Do we have a way to distinguish the invokable services from the non-invokable?
- is service search available to IDN nodes?
- Do we have a quality disclaimer?
- Are commercial services welcome?
Evolution of CEONet - Brian McLeod
Yonsook Enloe - WMT(?)
http://lennier.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/registry
http://viewer.digitalearth.gov/
Data Services Statistics - Osamu Ochiai
- If WTF becomes very active, it will be providing support to possibly many projects and pilots. The network people need to know how much demand will need to be met.
CNES Plans For Services Implementation - Paul Kop
- metadata system currently under development
- devoted to EO data
- implemented at CNES premises first
- can be duplicated elsewhere
- metadata stds (TC211 etc)
ESA Web Mapping Testbed - Ivan Petitteville
No notes
Test Environment Summary Report - Peter Churchill
- WTF Background - arose out of GOIN & Nakodo process with WGISS, and then evolved through 2000.
- Plenary 14 was extremely supportive and positive - offers of funding even! Much encouragement to suggest initiatives that could contribute to WTE.
- Concept:
- how to deal with development and improve ISSS
- how to improve take-up
- Plenary wants more user involvement
- We will demonstrate and improve our products in response to user requirements
- Time limited.
- What can WGISS offer?
- partnership by which both parties benefit
- co-ordinate technical assistance to ISS problems, institutional assistance.
- facilitate technical developments and formulation of standards
- identify tools and services to address WTF needs
- advise on adoption, use or improvement of WGISS Tools and services directly related to network, data, access
- demonstrate
- enable development of tools/services in response to user needs, and the transfer to operational environment
- What can't WGISS do:
- build GOFC info. systems
- cannot provide GOFC data management
- cannot provide support for requirements outside scope of wgiss
- not operational
- not "IBM consulting"
- Questions:
- what is role of WGISS in WTF, and of science project & agencies
- what can a WTF do? and what not
- do we need a model process
- how do we achieve closure
- what is the success metric
- how do we choose new WTFs
- what is the role of Demos in a wtf.
- What requests/recommendation are we going to make to plenary?
GOFC & WGISS - John Townsend
- What is GOFC
- strategy to bring worlds forests under continuous observation
- vision to share data, info, & knowledge to get informed action
- Objectives: ongoing space and in-situ observations of forests and other vegetation cover for
- Developed originally under CEOS as a pilot IGOS.
- Has become a panel of GTOS
- IGOS projects: GOFC, GODAE, Ozone, Upper Air Winds, Ocean Colour, Disasters
- IGOS is an international p/ship for co-operation in Earth Observations
- who are the partners?
- sponsors of Glob Obs Sys (IOC of UNESCO,FAO,UNEP,UNESCO,WMO,ICSU)
- Global observing systems GCOS, GOOS, GTOS
- CEOS
- IGBP
- WCRP
- International Group of Funding agencies (IGFA)
- Themes Process
- priorities for IGOS have been defined
- existing themes - oceans, carbon cycle
- in preparation - water
- possibles - disasters and global atmospheric chemistry
- Organisation of GOFC: Scientific and technology board
- implementation teams - fire monitoring and mapping, cover characteristics and changes, biophysical params (also terrestrial carbon observations)
- collaborations with WGISS and WGCV
- regional activities and networks
- Regional Networks -
- provide guidance on regional needs and capabilities
- Build on existing science networks
- Linked closely to national mapping and monitoring activities
- Foster transfer of technology and experience
- Intended to provide a transition to an operational continuity
- Current initiatives - SE Asia, Cent. Africa, South Africa, ....
- NEEDS:
- Priorities
- forest cover and carbon
- ecosystem assessment
- forest resource assessment and management
- key early initiatives
- improve access to remotely sensed data
- improved pre-processing of remotely sensed data
- evaluation and validation of global land cover products
- improved global land cover products
- land cover change monitoring
- couple in situ/remotely sensed systems
- priorities for fire
- CEOS / GOFC collaboration activities
- WGISS
- WGCV - John Townsend
- Lessons learned from CEOS collaboration
- collaboration only succeeds if benefits both parties
- mode with most success chance is rapid prototyping with roll-outs
- its science and application communities often have different goals and vocabularies
- assisting the science and application communities means being selective - a complete solution is unlikely to be needed or wanted
- IT environment of users is often different from CEOS agencies
- a phased iterative process should be defined for collaborations
- well defined rules of engagement between users and WGISS (taskforce)
- possible model of collaboration:
- set up joint WGISS/user group (UG) tech. design team
- UG specifies specific IT problems which they believe WTF could address
- wtf proposes a couple of prototypes which could be developed to investigate solutions
- UG and WGISS agree to a limited set of tasks, and jointly establish plan for action
- WTF does their prototyping, with or without UG direct involvement - finishes by reporting and rolling out demo
- UG may then incorporate these solutions into its DISS development with or without WGISS/CEOS
- Success so far
- involvement of all space agencies with intention of coupling with one-stop shopping
Peter Churchill's 5 issues
- roles
- use practical examples - eg SE ASIA
- was peter's presentation ok for defining wgiss role?
- benefits to both partners
- process
- phased iterative approach
- rapid prototyping approach
- management
- joint technical design team
- how do we practically manage this WTF
- how long will theGOFC WTF last? When do we achieve closure. How will we know
- next steps
- what does gofc see as the next steps for WTF
- Kyoto Demo
- what will we have for September 2001
IGOS-DISS - John Townsend
No notes
Day 3, Wednesday, 9 May
The day begins with an additional item - a description of the location of the basement - in response to the possibility of funnel storms (tornadoes) mentioned in the weather forecast.
Discussion of the issues with the WTF
Next Meeting at EUMetsat - Walter Dillen
- WGISS SG & TT meetings - September 2001
- EUMetsat organisation to operate Meteosat series and develop future systems
- intergovernmental organisation of 17 European member states (indep. of ESA & EU)
- Date: Week of 10 Sept (TBC)
- Darmstadt, Germany
- the place between Frankfurt & Heidelberg
- part of Rhein-Main area = triangle Frankfurt, Wiesbaden/Mainz,Darmstadt
- nearby sightseeing (Heidelberg, Odenwald/Bergstrasse)
- Logistics
- Fly into Frankfurt airport
- EURO...?
- Details will follow
IDN Task Team Meeting - Convenor: Lola Olsen
- Steady growth of DIFss throughout the year > 9200 so far
- Fairly even distribution by topic
- usage steadily increasing
- DIF retrievals increasing
- subscription service - 190 users
- Link checker - BigBrother (Linux)
- metadata authoring tools
- Portals - eg GOFC science keyword search or free text search
Node Status Reports
- CCRS:
- difs entered in French and English
- daily link checking
- French thesaurus now online
- sophisticated dif transfer in place (eg English to master node etc)
- steady increase in usage
- UNEP GRID
- MD8 installed for testing, MD7 operational
- MD8 on RH linux system with Oracle
- Plan to continue testing , do data mirroring, add Hungarian data, provide support to UNEP sites
- NASDA
- http://gcmd.eoc.nasda.go.jp
- planning to write difs for all NASDA data sets
- main access: universities and state agencies
MD8
notes lost for first half hour on MD8 architecture - should try to recover from D Kendig
MD8 Alpha Testing Results
Firewall problems
JCADM suggests several DataBase changes
JCADM suggested renaming tablespaces
pre-existing versions of JRE and Tomcat at some sites caused failures
Day 4, Thursday, 10 May
Access SG, CINTEX-TT
See http://access.ceos.org./access/meetings/sd/cintex.html
GSDI Technical Working Group - Doug Nebert, FGDC/USGS
- A group formed with the intention of identifying current practice that works in the standards area.
- Working to create a cookbook for users.
- to define reference environment for building compatible spatial data infrastructures
- to promote best practices, technologies and give guidance for implementation
- create an online resource for dissemination
- Main activities of GSDI TWG
- maintain global registry of Z39.50/GEO services for search and use by gateways
- operate distributed search gateway for all registered sites
- research options for unique 'product' identifier for use across international geospatial community
GEO Profile of ISO 23950/Z39.50 - Doug Nebert
- An application protocol layered on OSI or TCP/IP
- Developed by library community initially, adopted by museums, chemical abstracts, geomatics....
- provides search and retrieval services in a platform independent fashion through abstraction of query and return of structured responses.
- There are about 250 GEO servers worldwide
- There are several server software packages available (eg http://www.fgdctoolkit.com, http://www.blueangeltech.com, http://www.rtseusa.com, http://clearinghouse2.fgdc.gov/ftp)
- There is some work to be done to harmonise the profiles of CIP and GEO - this is rather late in the piece - it would have been much better to have done this sooner
- Future plans include
- V3.0 will support query and return of ISO19115 metadata using XML
- will investigate XER encoding
- provider/implementer workshop in July/August 2001
- more co-ordination with GILS and CIP
The Geography Network Overview - Jerry Garegnani, ESRI
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- What is it?
- Goal is to make geospatial information discoverable and available
- GN provides data, maps, services , solutions,
- Adheres to industry standards - metadata, wms, xml
- Who is it?
- Benefits
- delivery of data that non-GIS users recognise - maps
- increase agency exposure to the public
- metadata/clearinghouse issues
- currently metadata must be hand entered - plans to automate
- plans to estab GN Z39.50 clearhouse node
- encourages existing clearinghouses to register on GN
- http://www.geographynetwork.com
New Guide System and EVP - Jingli Yang
- EDG New Guide System
- to replace current WAIS-based system for improved functionality & maint.
- to eliminate the term encoding procedure for valids used in current WAIS subsystem
- adopt a common document search protocol
- based on isearch and isite software
- status
- 8 daacs have created new document archives accessible to new guide system
- new guide system has been tested as an fgdc node
- http://lyta,gsfc.nasa.gov/~imsdev/ims/imswelcome/plain.html
- EDG Valids Processing
- motivation - eos data g/w metadata and ingest procedure takes too long. need to reduce it and get turnround from 2 weeks to days by automating a previously manual process
- process change - data centres will directly access (over the web) the valids processing scripts and programs for metadata test and ingest
- old system steps
- data providers ftp files or email them
- manual and locally automated checks for syntax, semantic and content
- manual support file generation
- new system
- simple uniform and fast and processing for syntactic, semantic & content
- provides test environment
- How it works
- evp invokes valids verification s/w
- when satisfied - request promotion
- status
- evp v1.0 released for Betaion April 1
- evp 1.0 started operationally 7 May
ISO TC 211 Status - Lorant Czaran
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There has been plenty of activity
- Next plenary - October 20001 Adelaide
- 19115 is formally now a draft international standard (DIS)
- Final DIS in Nov 2001
- All ISO TC211 documents can be reviewed by WGISS
- Work programme, resolutions, other general information on TC 211 is available online to anybody at http://www.statkart.no/isotc211
- For access to documents or comments to submit, as well as for nominating editing experts in any of the projects, contact the formal PoC (Wyn Cudlip or Lorant Czaran)
Status of OGC catalog Services and Services Catalog - Doug Nebert
- Background
- Abstract specification "topic" documents called for the spec. of interfaces for discovery of geospatial resources
- request for proposals published to establish industry interest in catalog services
- responses guided primarily through government sponsored integrators and interests
- Objectives
- to define interfaces to support discovery of and handles to geospatial information
- to integrate with or complement existing technologies and OGC specifications wherever possible
- Get presentation from http://access.ceos.org./access/meetings/sd/cintex.html
CEOS Cintex Help Desk - Ben Burford
New prototype pages are online at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CEOS
INFEO Status - Ivan Petiteville
- ESA Goals
- increase the use of info: more users and more and better performing data providers
- prepare the future pan-European Interoperable network of Information Systems for all applications
- Current status
- 50 collections per day queried
- 400 of DLR's collections interrogated since Dec. 1999
- performance and user HMI to be improved as a priority
- performance is hampered by middleware node and getting responses by remote providers. some responses take several minutes
- some gateways are not properly monitored and controlled by data providers.
- the user interface is far from being intuitive and is a bit CIP centric (jargonistic?)
- up and running at http://www.infeo.org
- anticipated user hmi upgrade (search part) based on DLR eoweb
- search version was upgraded to allow W Chen (NASA) to resume testing
- on-going install of UK MWND
- both NASA & NASDA want to install middleware node
- long term evolution - operations and upgrades (performance and user HMI)
- After 2001, look for yearly funding thereafter.
- Yonsook - status of testing: underway again.
ENVI GRID - Ivan Petiteville
No notes
Back to WGISS in Plenary
CEOS SubGroup Futures - Terry Fisher
- Strategy, CILS and GOIN Task Teams (which report direct to WGISS) are retiring.
- The WWW Task Team (which operates under the Access SG) is possibly dying - which has implications for EOGEO, maybe the technology watch and EOGEO needs to go to somewhere else? To Data Services TT perhaps?
- Lengthy discussion and debate about how to evolve the SG/TT structure of WGISS in response to the emergence of the WTF -two main alternatives discussed
- lump all the Network, Access & Data TTs together and put the WTF and its user group interactions (WTF-GOFC) in another group. Downside is that meeting organisation for the former lump would be a nightmare.
- Join access and data, network remains and WTF floats free reporting directly to WGISS
- Discussion on this point was not resolved - proposals put forward have plenty of potential to make a mess of WGISS (IMHO)
AGENCY REPORTS
ESA
This year is the year of ENVISAT - all 8 tonnes of it, and numerous more EO missions are planned
CNES
- SPOT5+HRS
- improve spot products and stereoscopy
- additional payload - DORIS beacon
- IASI on METOP - atmospheric sounding
- JASON1 on PROTEUS - maritime altimetry - same as Poseiden, also carries DORIS satellite localisation instr.
- DEMETER on MYRIADE - ionospheric parameterisation, launch 2003
- POLDER2 on ADEOS2 - Feb 2002, same objective as Polder - global observation of reflection of sun radiation and polarisation and direction (V+NIR)
- VGT2 - launch with spot5 in feb 2002
ICSU (Dave Clark)
World Data Centre directors meeting in NCDC
- recommendations for revamping, enhancing and reinventing WDCs
- more mirroring is going on
- is a global data strategy needed? IGOS parallel????
NOAA - Howard.Diamond@noaa.gov
- N16 operational Mar 20
- GOES-2 boosted out of orbit
- DMSP night lights gaining use - eg seismic risk
- GCOS - climate ground site data web page
NASA - Ken McDonald
- Current operational support by EOSDIS - Landsat7, Terra January 00
- managing 150GB/day from Landsat, Terra 194 GB/day
- more than 1 TB/day of higher level products
- in less than year Terra instruments have more than doubled NASA earth science holdings
- Evolving towards New DISS....
NASDA - Osamu Ochiai
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MOS, JERS, ADEOS - no ops
- TRMM operational
- Aqua/AMSR-E launch Sept 20001
- ADEOS 2 feb 2002
- also Jun 2003 - 1 TB/day
Ukraine - Oleksandr Kolodyazhnyy
- Since independence- Remote sensing satellites Sich-1 1995, Okean-O 1999 with Russia, Sich-1M (2002)
- mikrosputnik program on former military rockets
- Remote sensing - very many aerophotos, archive of Ukrainian sat data, some foreign sat data, many scientific researches and applications in many different domains, lack of catalogs metadata access facilities
EU - Peter Churchill
GMES - global monitoring for environment and security - member states have requested that whatever gets built next (ie, after envisat) is actually USED
Day 5, Friday 11th May
Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) - Toshio Koike
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Scientific Objectives
- Understanding continental hydroclimate processes
- Long term goals 1: WESP 2: MONSOON
- Downscaling is very important
- Enhanced in situ observations at reference sites with global consistency and global climate variability
- New data sets of entire water cycle by integrating the new generation satellite products in addition to existing
- 2002/2003 is good overlap of operational existing satellites and new instruments - planned end is 2005
- Aim is to feed into IGOS water cycle theme
- Preparatory Meeting was held at GSFC March 2001
- Science plan: http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca/GEWEX /GHP/ceop.html
- Implementation plan: http://www.gewex.com/ceop/draft.htm
- Summary and satellite information: http://monsoon.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ceop/index.html
Brief Presentation of IGOS Ocean Theme - Johnny Johannessen
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Motivation - human need for global observations, economic importance of oceans,....
- Vision - develop and maintain continuity of observation capabilities for the global ocean, and to advance to a permanent global ocean observing system
- http://www.halo.is - diadem link - data assimilation system
WTF, the way forward - Terry (on behalf of Peter Churchill)
No notes
Plenary Recommendations & Reports - Ken Inglis (on behalf of Peter Churchill)
- Context
- WTF-GOFC Framework Proposal
- remit from plen-14, consolidation, creation of TT to manage
- work in progress
- work up to plen-15, achievements
- work over the next year
- continue exiting tasks
- extend to include new tasks
- justification
- resource implications
- increased effort
- specific contacts with assigned responsibilities
- funds
- Timetables.....
5 Year Plan - Ken Inglis on behalf of Peter Churchill
No notes
CEOS CDROM - Paul Kopp (CNES)
- Contributions from NASA, NOAA, DLR, NRSCC, NASDA, SCANEX, CNES, MEDIAS, SPOTIMAGE
- Several refinements and updates, hopefully an index implementation by the end of June
- Several major agencies did not provide any contribution
- New contributions have been incorporated but there is a lack of critical analysis of existing contents
- No documentation on important missions (Topex/Poseiden, WINDII POAM, METEOSAT, MSG, METOP)
- Due to lack of resources, WGISS and CALVAL stuff could not be incorporated
- Good things - CD-ROM is very much appreciated, no replacement (ie alternative)
- Dark side - suffers many weaknesses, agency involvement is too low, WGISS is right place for tech CD-ROM but not for thematic assessment
Network SubGroup Report - Shin-Ichi Sobue
- Important forthcoming events
- Kyoto CEOS Plenary Support & WTF
- Network Workshop Proposal- proposed Sept 25, 2001@ EORC
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