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EIE VisionEIE Vision

• The Earth Information Exchange is an integrated system of distributed components that work together to expedite the process of Earth Science and to increase the effective application of its results to benefit the public.

• The Exchange will increase collaborative use of data sets, research analysis tools, models, simulations, decision support products and educational materials held in dozens of repositories by Federation partners and by others in the Earth observation community.

• Leverage Interoperability and Earth Science Gateway (ESG) as backbone to support the sharing and collaboration.

Earth Information Exchange & Earth Information Exchange & Earth Science Gateway Earth Science Gateway - A NASA GIO & ESIP partnership- A NASA GIO & ESIP partnership

Myra BambacusNASA Applied Sciences ProgramGeosciences Interoperability Office

Robert RaskinScience Data EngineeringInstrument Software and Science Data Systems SectionNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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AgendaAgenda

NASA GIO

NASA GIO & ESIP Federation Partnership

Earth Science Gateway (ESG)

Earth Information Exchange (EIE)

EIE Demo

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NASA GIO NASA GIO

GIO Purpose:• Facilitate interoperable discovery, access and use of NASA research results and model products in applications of national and international priority and other scientific, educational and commercial uses.

Achieved by:• Designing, and implementing geospatial interoperability concepts, architectures, and standards to enable greater access and use of NASA’s scientific data.

•Developing and demonstrating prototypes, pilots and testbeds implementing access to NASA data, products and models for research to operations

• Leading and participating in national initiatives working towards scientific research system of systems solutions.

• Implementing interoperability directly in support of GEOSS, CCSP, and other national and international initiatives.

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NASA GIO and ESIP NASA GIO and ESIP partnershippartnership

• Facilitate access to Earth Science Information through Science Information through interoperable approaches.

• Support NASA’s Earth Science Applications Areas and GEOSS societal benefit areas.

• Leverage the interoperability prototype of NASA ESG as the backbone to support the ESIP EIE.

• Through Partnership of NASA, NOAA, EPA, ESIP, GMU, UAH, and other organizations, such as Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES).

– Air Quality: DataFed, EPA, NASA ASP AQ, NOAA, etc.– Water Cycle: CREW, NOAA, etc. – Public Health: NASA ASP PH, EPA, EDAC, etc. – …

Earth Science GatewayEarth Science Gateway

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Earth Science Gateway (ESG)

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Purpose & ScopePurpose & Scope

Purpose Access to NASA’s Earth Science information systems and research results through interoperability.

Scope Gateway to NASA’s data products, model outputs, informational sites Support of NASA’s Research to Operations goals and objectives Increase efficiency and convenience for NASA Federal, commercial, and academic partners to discover, access and use NASA data resources Create new opportunities and support NASA and its partner scientists, analysts, data managers, educators and decision makers Resource to National and International societal benefit initiatives Evolve ESG to provide interoperability and access between research results and integrators

Leverage NASA investments & capabilities (GCMD, ECHO)Work within the GEOSS architecture

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GEOSS ArchitectureGEOSS ArchitectureGroup on Earth bservations

Group on Earth bservations

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GEOSS Interoperability Standards for ServicesGEOSS Interoperability Standards for Services

GEOSS Interoperability Arrangement Version

ISO 23950 Not specified

OASIS Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Not specified

OASIS WS Eventing Not specified

OASIS WS Notification Not specified

OGC Catalogue Service (CSW and Z39.50) 2.0.1

OGC Catalogue Service (CSW and Z39.50) 2.0.2

OGC Sensor Observation Service 1.0.0

OGC Sensor Planning Service 1.0.0

OGC Web Coverage Service 1.1

OGC Web Coverage Service 1.0

OGC Web Feature Service 1.1

OGC Web Map Service 1.0

OGC Web Map Service 1.1.1

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ESG ArchitectureESG Architecture

Discovery/Access to NASA

components within International Initiatives

NASA components viewable in 3D/4D

browsers

NASA components used in Partner Agency Decision

Support Systems

KnowledgeBase, EOS Catalogs:

GCMD, ECHO

Models, Sensors, Projects:

EO-1, MAP, PHAirs

Grant RecipientsUCAR, WU,GMU

NASA Components

Mission Data Products

DAACS: GES, LP, SEDAC

Portal to data, Portal to data, information, information, knowledge knowledge

about the Earth about the Earth SystemsSystems

ProcessingServices

PortrayalServices

CatalogServices

Extensible, open portal architecture

WMS

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Earth Information ExchangeEarth Information Exchange

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EIE ArchitectureEIE Architecture

EIE leverages ESG as a backbone to support the Earth science communities, such as Earth Science Application Areas and GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas.

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EIE Types of Products/ServicesEIE Types of Products/Services

Products Services

RawData

ScienceExpert

EducationalProduct

Data w/Model-Assimilation

Reprojection/Regridding

Service

EnvironmentalAdvisory

Map/WMSProduct

Virtual, on-demandProduct

Level 3Data

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ConclusionsConclusions

• Interoperability and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) increase (SOA) increase traditional, cross disciplinary, and advanced use of Earth Science data – Use of OGC web services– Exposing products from multiple partners

• Open standards (ISO/FGDC/OGC and JSR 168/268) enable visualization, search/discovery, data access, sensor web, process flow

• ESG-EIE is a contributor to a robust, flexible, service-oriented, standards-based and extensible infrastructure

• ESG-EIE is a platform that can be used today or built-on to test the viability, usefulness and variations of the System of Systems SOA architecture

http://esg.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://eie.esipfed.org/

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Ongoing workOngoing work

• Connect to partner catalogs by interoperable interfaces, such as CSW or Z39.50, through ESG.

• Mature more Portlets, such as Water and Climate? • Mature knowledge reasoning by populating Ontology and

improve reference engine? • Contributing Earth Science Ontology to international

standards for benefiting the GEOSS interoperability. • Support knowledge search, for example, instead of being

able to answering “what precipitation data do we have”, being able to answer “what are the best crops to plant next year”