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Contributions of environmental research infrastructures to GEOSS

Yannick Legré (yannick.legre@idgrilles.fr)

CNRS – National Grid & Cloud Institute (CNRS-IdGC)On behalf of the ENVRI consortium

http://envri.eu

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BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ENVRI

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Environmental Science

oceanic and atmospheric

processes

long-term development of

the climate system

Biological processes

biodiversity

development of the cryosphere and lithosphere

Earth as a single complex and coupled system

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ESFRI Environmental Research Infrastructures

• Tropospheric research aircraft

COPAL

• Upgrade of incoherent SCATter facility

EISCAT-3D

• Multidisciplinary seafloor observatory

EMSO

• Plate observing system

EPOS

• Global ocean observing infrastructure

EURO-ARGO

• Aircraft for global observing system

IAGOS

• Integrated carbon observation system

ICOS

• Biodiversity and ecosystem research infra

LIFEWATCH

• Svalbard arctic Earth observing system

SIOS

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New associated initiatives: ACTRIS, AnaEE, InGOS, IS-ENES

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Goal

Enable multidisciplinary scientists to access and study data from multiple domains for “system level” research

by providing solutions and guidelines for the RIs common needs

Multiple data producersMultiple data consumers

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CONTRIBUTION FROM ENVRI AND ENVIRONMENTAL RI TO GEOSS

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ENVRI is developing generic services/tools…

That are relevant for the GEOSS community

Across silos / cross boundaries

And which could be used as part of the GEOSS implementation

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The ENVRI Reference Model (1/3)

Why:To structure thinking

To help reaching a common vision within a community

To provide a common language to communicate concepts concisely

To help discover solutions to common problems;

To provide a uniform framework into which RIs components can fit and compare

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What:A standard for the description and characterisation of computational and data infrastructures

An abstract conceptual model

captures common requirements for data and operations of ESFRI ENV RIs

captures their state-of-the-art design experiences

A taxonomy of terms, concepts and definitions

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The ENVRI Reference Model (2/3)

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How ENVRI-RM can contribute to GEOSS:As a basis to drive design and implementation

Serving as a common language for communication to unify understanding

Serving as a community standard to secure interoperability

Providing common services based on common requirements

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The ENVRI Reference Model (3/3)

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discover data which are heterogeneous in format, content, and metadata description

harmonise, integrate and analyse data across domains and RIs Pr

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tyPreserve Specificity

PROVIDE SOFTWARE TOOLS TO

Data discovery and processing tools

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Could ESFRI Environment RI provide a house for GEOSS projects to serve them?

GEPW workshop gather all European projects which have a GEOSS component in it. But,

They have a limited lifetime

ESFRIs could provide a home place for those services.

ENVRI could act as an interface to promote this as potential sustainable environment

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RELEVANCE OF GEOSS TO ENVRI

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Problem of sustainability of the ENVRI results (1/2)

ENVRI provide generic services/tools for projects as well as for GEOSS

ENVRI is not making a new Research Infrastructure

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Problem of sustainability of the ENVRI results (2/2)

Who is going to sustain the results when the project is finished

ESFRIs projects could participate on a voluntary basis to sustain them.

Another point of view : we are providing generic services which are not only of interest for ESFRIs but for the whole world. Does GEOSS can be a home to maintain those services?

The Reference Model: every 2 years you need a major upgrade of the reference model (like a workshop to agree on changes bringing together GEOSS-IIB and ENV RIs)

Outcomes of Technical WP - GEOSS find a mechanisms to have call for projects to update new environments.

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GEOSS is a user community for the ESFRI projects.

It would be nice to start during ENVRI Lifetime

The interaction between ESFRI Research Infrastructures all together and GEOSS

On how these Research Infrastructures can meet the requirements and requests of the GEOSS community.

E.g.: Mapping Societal Benefit Areas (SBA) with ESFRI RIs

Proposal: to organize a “speed-dating” workshop. Maybe in Zurich or at a later GEPW To be investigated with GEPW organisers

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Summary

Contribution of ENVRI and Environmental Research Infrastructures to GEOSS

ENVRI is developing generic services/tools (Reference Model, Data discovery and processing tools, …)Enabling ENV RIs to contribute with their data to GEOSS including In-situ dataESFRI Environment projects could provide a house for GEOSS projects to serve them

ENVRI could act as an interface between short-term projects and the different ESFRIs

Relevance of GEOSS to ENVRIProblem of sustainability of the ENVRI resultsGEOSS is a user community for the ESFRI projects

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