geochronos - canarie nep showcase 2010 presentation
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Slides given as part of GeoChronos demonstration at the CANARIE NEP Showcase in Montreal on Oct. 21st, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth Observation Scientists
An on-line platform For:
Earth Observation Scientists Facilitating:
Collaboration between scientists Data access, management and sharing Application access, management and sharing
Leveraging: Web 2.0 and social networking technologies Cloud computing technologies
Funded by: CANARIE - Network Enabled Platform (NEP-1) program Cybera
(http://geochronos.org/)
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Solutions Portal rich with social networking features
Tags, bookmarks, profiles, blogs, wikis, friends/contacts, groups Media/document sharing, publications, presentations Discussions, message boards, calendars Status, activity feeds
Technology Portal built on top of a social networking platform
Initial prototype built in Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) Secondary prototype built on white label social networking platform Ning
(http://www.ning.com) Current portal built on open source white label social networking platform Elgg
(http://www.elgg.org) Next Steps
Plan to keep using Elgg platform and upgrade as new versions released Develop new Elgg plugins as needed
Collaboration
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Dashboard
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Groups
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Solutions Spectral Libraries
Store, share and browse spectral data View spectral plots, metadata, ancillary data and maps Manage and generate metadata for spectra Create and share metadata schemas
Spectral Library solution also being used to manage MODIS satellite data
Technology iRODS (http://www.irods.org/) for data storage/management
Next Steps Further generalization of spectral library solution
Acquire, store, manage, browse and share other types of data Flux tower and phenology tower data Meteorological data Other data
Data
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Spectral Library - Browse
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Spectral Library - Metadata
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Solutions Interactive Application Service (IAS)
On-line, on-demand access to scientific applications Share application sessions and data with other users
Batch Processing Service (BPS) Background batch processing of longer running tasks and simulations Automation of data workflows – mosaic, reproject and subset MODIS data
Technology IAS and BPS are hosted on top of a cloud computing platform
Use ASPEN (http://grid.ucalgary.ca/projects/DataCentre/) which can dynamically provision virtual machines to host applications based on user demand
Next Steps Better integration between different data and application services Application of batch processing/workflow service to other problems
Applications/Processing
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Application Catalogue
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Interactive Application Service
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MODIS Workflow Service
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Apr 21, 2009 - CANARIE NEP-1 Synergy Workshop (Winnipeg)
Jun 22, 2009 - SpecNet Workshop (Lethbridge) Jun 24-26, 2009 – Meeting of the Collaborative Research
Network II (CRN2) and Small Grant Program for the Human Dimensions (SGP-HD) Principal Investigators (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Jul 6-18, 2009 - IAI International Wireless Sensor Networking Summer School (Edmonton)
Aug 15, 2009 – Elgg Camp (Boston) Oct 14, 2009 – Summit 09 (Banff) Nov 17,18, 2009 – SC 2009 (Portland) Nov 20, 2009 – GCE 2009 (Portland)
Presentations/Demonstrations
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Dec 9, 2009 – e-Science 2009 (Oxford, UK) Dec 14, 2009 – AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco) Mar 4, 2010 – Earth Observation Science Day
(Edmonton) Mar 15, 2010 – OGF 28 (Munich) Apr 29, 2010 – European Cooperation in Science and
Technology (COST) Meeting (Italy) May 5, 2010 – BCNET/CANARIE Conference 2010
(Vancouver) Aug 14, 2010 – IAI Collaborative Research Network
Meeting (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Sep 22, 2010 – Cybera Summit 2010 (Banff)
Presentations/Demonstrations - II
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R. Curry, C. Kiddle and R. Simmonds. Social Networking and Scientific Gateways. In Proceedings of the Grid Computing Environments Workshop, Portland, OR, November 20, 2009.
N. Markatchev, R. Curry, C. Kiddle, A. Mirtchovski, R. Simmonds and T. Tan. A Cloud-based Interactive Application Service. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Oxford, UK, December 9-11, 2009.
J. A. Gamon, C. Kiddle, R. Curry, N. Markatchev, G. Pastorello Jr., B. Rivard, G. A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, R. Simmonds and T. Tan. GeoChronos: An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth Observation Scientists. In Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2009. (Abstract)
Publications
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J. Gamon, C. Coburn, L.B. Flanagan, K.F. Huemmrich, C. Kiddle, G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, D.R. Thayer, L. Vescovo, D. Gianelle, D.A. Sims, A.F. Rahman and G.Z. Pastorello. SpecNet Revisited: Bridging Flux and Remote Sensing Communities. To appear in the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 2010.
R. Curry, C. Kiddle, R. Simmonds and G. Z. Pastorello Jr. An On-line Collaborative Data Management System. To appear in Proceedings of the Gateway Computing Environments Workshop, New Orleans, LA, November 14, 2010.
Publications - II
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Project Team
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Dr. Arturo Sanchez-AzofeifaUniversity of Alberta
Dr. John GamonUniversity of Alberta
Dr. Benoit RivardUniversity of Alberta
Dr. Rob SimmondsUniversity of Calgary
Prinicipal Investigators
Project Coordination Platform Development Domain Scientists
Virtual Organization
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Contact Information
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http://geochronos.org/[email protected]
http://grid.ucalgary.ca/ http://ceos.ualberta.ca/ http://www.cybera.ca/