ESIP Air Quality Cluster

ESIP Federation

A Network of Diverse Organizations Working Together to Bring Earth

Observation Information to Bear on Environmental Research, Education and

Decision-Making

June 12, 2007

Milestones• 1998 - ESIP Formed by NASA in Response to a NRC

Recommendation for “Community Involvement” in EOSDIS.

• 2003 – Evolved Plan to Become a Broad-Based Inter-Disciplinary Collaborative Forum (Cyberinfrastructure) for the Earth Science Information Community.

• 2004 - NOAA/NESDIS Becomes Second Strategic Partner.

• 2007 – EPA becomes Third Strategic Partner.

• 2003-2007 – Membership Grows from 24 to 103 Entities.

Continuum of Interests

EROS Data Center (USGS)National Climatic Data Center (NOAA)

Oak Ridge National Lab (NASA)

Data Centers Scientists/Researchers Technologists Applications Developers Educators

StormCenter CommunicationsEarth Data Analysis Center (UNM)

ESRI

TERCNew Media StudioMuseum of Science

ARIA (University of Arizona)University of Alabama in

Huntsville (ITSC)

Global Land Cover Facility (UMD)EOS-Webster (UNH)

Common Ground

Type II ESIPsScientists/Researchers/Technologists

Type I ESIPsData Centers

Type IV ESIPsSponsors

Type III ESIPsApplication Developers/Educators

Collaboration

Users

Strategic Goals

• Provide Leadership for the Earth Science Data Information Community.

• Promote Efficient Flow of Earth Science Information from Collection to End-Use.

• Improve the Quality and Usability of Earth Science Data and Information Systems.

• Increase the Use of Earth Science Data and Information.

• Expand Public Awareness of Earth Science Data and Information Systems.

Challenges

• Bridging the “Valley of Death” between Research and Operations.

• Bridging the “Grand Canyon” between Researchers and Information Technologists.

• Bridging the “Chasm” between Public and Private Interests.

• Bridging the “Gaps” between Major Federal Agencies.

• Bridging the “Ravine” between the Earth Science Professionals and the General Public.

Internal Organization• VOLUNTEER DRIVEN – Small Coordinating Staff Provided by

the Foundation for Earth Science

• GOVERNANCE -Assembly/Executive Committee – One Entity, One Vote – Round Table Lets All Speak with Equal Weight.

• STANDING COMMITTEES- - - Products and Services – - - Commercial Development- - - Information Technology and Interoperability- - - Education – - - Community Engagement

• ISSUE AREA CLUSTERS – US GEO Aligned- - -Air Quality – - - Water Management – - - Disaster

Management – - - Coastal Management - - - Ecological Forecasting - - -

Climate

• WORKING GROUPS- - - Semantic Technologies – - - Web Services - - - GIS

External Outreach

• Provide Neutral Turf where Major Earth Observing Agencies Can Work Together with Other Community Interests to Advance Key National Objectives

• Provide a Broad-Based Community-of-Practice where Strategic Partners can Seek Advice, Generate New Collaborations and Cultivate New End-Users.

• Provide a Forum in which Inter-Agency, Inter-Disciplinary, Interoperability Problems can be Addressed and Resolved.

• Provide an Earth Information Exchange where the Products and Services of all ESIP Members can be Easily Found and Acquired.

Strategic Goals 1. Serve as facilitator and advisor for the Earth science information community. 2. Promote efficient flow of Earth science data from collection to end-use. 3. Improve quality and usability of Earth science data and information systems. 4. Expand the use of Earth science information – get it to the decision-makers.5. Educate the public about Earth science and science information systems.

ESIP Federation Clusters

Clusters are formed by a group of ESIP members to address a particular problem of interest

Intended to promote informal, easy exchange of information among partners

ESIP Air Quality Cluster

data tools,methods,services

AQ Cluster brings together groups and builds links among them in order to achieve an effective use of data in decision-making that could not be achieved by any organization acting on its own.

The objective of the ESIP Air Quality Cluster is to connect air quality data consumers with the providers of those data by:

bringing people and ideas together on how to deliver ES data to AQ researchers, managers and other users

facilitate and demonstrate the information flow of from data providers to air quality consumers

data tools,methods,services

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AQ Cluster aids in reuse of data, processing tools and other services so that projects, programs and agencies avoid the burden of developing those capabilities or establishing connections to them.

users

users

Interoperability Efforts• GALEON• NASA GIO – DAACS• EPA AMI Coordination• OGC GSN (demos)• OGC OWS testbeds

Portals / Catalogs

NASA Programs/Projects

EPA Programs/Projects

NOAA Programs/Projects• Air Quality Forecasting (Fine)• NGDC (Haberman, Kozimor)• Hazard Mapping System (Ruminski)

• REASoN (Friedl, Moe)• WRAP (Ambrosia, Sullivan)• EDAC (Morain, Benedict, Hudspeth)• LAITS (Di, Yang)• PM Management (Husar, Falke)

• ACCESS (Lindsay, Maiden)• Giovanni (GSFC – Kempler)

• DECISIONS (Friedl)• 4D AQS (Hoffman)• RS for BlueskyRAINS (Raffuse)• AQ Forecasting (McHenry)

• ROSES (Moe)• SAMITS (NGC - Falke)

• DAACS• GIO (Cole, Yang, Alameh)

• AMI (Young, Keating)• GEO (Young, Washburn, Lyon, Foley)• AirNOW (Dickerson)• OAQPS (Scheffe, Frank, Dimmick, Solomon)• IDEA (w/ NASA,NOAA) (Szykman)• HTAP (Keating)• Remote Sensing Gateway (Paulson, Walter)• Environmental Science Connector (Kapuscinski)

• DataFed (Husar)• Unidata (Domenico, Ramamurthy)• CDE (Ambrosia, Sullivan)• Giovanni (Kempler, Leptoukh )• LAITS (Di)• RSG

Forest Service Programs/Projects• Bluesky (Goodrick, …)

The Air Quality Web Landscape (more of an inventory at this point)

Mediators

• Earth Information Exchange (ESIP)• Earth Observation Portal (GEO)• Geospatial One Stop• Earth Science Gateway (NASA)• Environmental Science Connector (EPA)• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)• ECHO• LEAD

DataFed Wiki Catalog/Data Access Descriptions

Summer Meeting

• AQ Relevant Sessions– AQ Demos– GEO Near Term Opportunities– AQ Cluster