AN ORGANISATION FOR A NATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM

Australian Earth Science Research Information

Infrastructure

Dr Robert WoodcockCSIRO

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Commonwealth

State

Local

Regional

Industry

Research

bedrock

surficial

mineral

geochemical

geochronologic

hyrdrogeological

Geo-information

geophysical

With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Natural Resources Canada

Decisions, decisions…?

decision makersknowledge base

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Single pass 150 m cell differentially reduced to the pole magnetic anomaly map

Thanks to Hugh Tassell, Ole Nielson, Peter Milligan & Lutz Gross

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Mineral Systems Life Cycles & Targeting Numerical Modelling (CSIRO/pmd*CRC)

gold magnetite

pyrrhotite calcite

Slide courtesy of James Cleverley and Paul Roberts

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Predicting mineral location and geophysical responses

Density

Magnetic susceptibility

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Courtesy: Cobar Management Pty Ltd & Peter Schaubs

Under what conditions do S2 shear zones form?

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Courtesy: Cobar Management Pty Ltd & Peter Schaubs

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Commonwealth

State

Local

Regional

Industry

Research

bedrock

surficial

mineral

geochemical

geochronologic

hyrdrogeological

Geo-information

geophysical

With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Natural Resources Canada

Decisions, decisions…?

decision makersknowledge base

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Managing natural hazards – a similar situation

decision making

Resource Assessment

geohazards

inundation

hazard potentialhazard uncertainty

Earthquake locationEarthquake magnitude

Policy

buildings

bathymetry

geophysics

Seismic

Community Info

Environment

Geo-information

• vulnerability, risk cost Human Facility Economyloss Environment

Risk Assessment

Tsunami risk mapIntegrated Assessment

resource assessment modeling vulnerability, risk

assessment modelingintegrated assessment

modeling

Tsunami emergency response

geohazards

Town planninginundation

Vulnerability, risk

Slide adapted from Boyan Brodaric – Natural Resources Canada

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It’s all quite traumatic!

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National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy

• NCRIS – a new Australian Government Initiative• Australian Government: ~$500M for FY06-FY11 • 11 Capability Areas + one Systemic ICT Infrastructure• NCRIS Principles

– “Major infrastructure …should serve the research and innovation system broadly, not just the host / funded institutions

– “...seek to enable the fuller participation of Australian researchers in the international research system”

• Test Beds Prototypes

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AuScope: Coherent Accessible Infrastructure

AuScopeNational, Integrated

Data AcquisitionInfrastructure and Programs

AuScope Earth Model3D/4D

MultiscaleUpdateable

Web Portal Access

New IdeasNew KnowledgePolicy Demands

EducationWealth Building

Repositories, Networks,Access & Interoperability

AuScope SimulatorData Mining

InversionModelling

InfrastructureData / Information

ResearchKnowledgeApplication

National Benefit

AuScopeNational, Integrated

Data AcquisitionInfrastructure and Programs

AuScope Earth Model3D/4D

MultiscaleUpdateable

Web Portal Access

New IdeasNew KnowledgePolicy Demands

EducationWealth Building

Repositories, Networks,Access & Interoperability

AuScope SimulatorData Mining

InversionModelling

InfrastructureData / Information

ResearchKnowledgeApplication

National Benefit

1: Concepts1: Concepts2: Data 2: Data AcquisitionAcquisition

3: Data storage 3: Data storage & access& access

4: Research4: Research

5: Knowledge 5: Knowledge DeliveryDelivery

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Auscope – a system for earth scienceToys Trauma Thrills Treasure

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Toys…Data 1: Transects Program

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Toys…Data 2: Geochemical Instruments

17© CSIRO 2003

ToysData 3: Virtual Core Library

Spectrometer

Telescope

Robotic x/y table

Linescan cameraControl

computer

Cooler

Profilometer

ASD spectrometer

Controllingcomputer

Robotic x-y table

Telescope

Chip tray

Quartz halogen lamps

Fibre optic cable

Chip tray carrier

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ToysData 4: GPS, Geodesy

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Thrills:Simulation and modeling

• Desktop Modelling Toolkit– CSIRO Minerals Down Under

• Virtual Rock Laboratory– UQ

• Underworld on the Grid– Monash, VPAC

• Geodesy Workflow– UTAS, GA, ANU, Curtin

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Data Structures

Proprietary Software

Versions of Software

Client

Trauma:Data is not standardised across organisations

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AuScope Community Agreements

Client

A solution: Open standards based earth science information infrastructure

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WMS GetMap returns a server’s “dumb” JPEG, GIF or PNG representation of the data on the server. It does NOT return the actual data, only a bitmap of the data.

Web Map Service can’t “give data away.”

Roma

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Portrayal vs AnalysisSimple vs Community Schemas

Data can be easily exchanged within communities where meaning is understood and humans are involved

Property = temperature, (only) Value = ’15-20’

For use in wider communities more precise definitions are required that reflect the complexity of the real world

Property = temperature, Value = 15 Unit = C Instrument = thermometer Value = 17 Unit = C Instrument = thermometerValue = 20 Unit = C Instrument = thermometer

OR

Property = temperature,MinValue = 15 Unit = CMaxValue = 20 Unit = C

Agreement at an international level enables data to be reused, repurposed and used by other domains globally

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Rendered into a map layer AND queried by a user or….

… formatted into a report or ….

… read and used by any enabled application

Slides courtesy Stuart Girvan – Geoscience Australia

Applications:It’s not about you…it’s about them.

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AuScope Earth Science Network

Simulation

Res Grp Info

Survey Info

Geospatial

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Benefits for…

• Providers– All providers get to retain their

back end database structures– (Potential to have) consumers and

independent 3rd parties develop their own portals and applications

• Users– Accelerate time to results– Enable collaboration and promote

operational flexibility– Increase productivity– Leverage existing capital

investments– Increased access to data and

collaboration

Spatial Information Services Stack

applicable to other spatial domains

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Earth Science has many pieces that build our understanding – Auscope brings them together