]> 2008-12-02T22:41:49-05:00 ESIP Air Quality Cluster esip-aqcluster@rtpnet.org NASA, NOAA, EPA are strategic partners ESIP The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a consortium of over 100 organizations in government academia, and industry that collect, disseminate, interpret and apply Earth observation information. ESIP serves as a forum for fostering and sustaining collaborations and interoperability that aim to improve processes for the use of earth observation information in research, education, management and policy. ESIP "clusters" are domain-specific focus groups that are intended to promote informal, easy exchange of information among organizations. The ESIP Air Quality Cluster aims to connect air quality data consumers and providers by: * bringing people and ideas together on how to deliver ES data to AQ researchers, managers and other users/consumers * facilitate and demonstrate the information flow of from data providers to air quality consumer [[Image:ESIP-Decadal_Survey_Mapping.jpg|ESIP in light of Decadal Survey]] Not Given Not Given The Public Health Applications in Remote Sensing (PHAiRS) project is an active ESIP participant and its connection to DataFed for access to air quality data was facilitated by ESIP: [[PHAiRS_-_DataFed_Interaction]]. Not Given ESIP does not focus on a particular application area but its organizational framework, diverse participation, and information science and technology expertise form an environment to support air quality applications. ESIP promotes the use of standards for data interoperability. The ESIP semantic web cluster is exploring new technologies for enhancing data access and interoperability. Not Given Not Given Use of wiki, portals, catalogs. Guidance on best practices. Promotes web services and service oriented architecture approaches to reuse. Wikis. Metadata. Semantic web (ontologies). Depends on data source (global to regional and historical to nea real time). ESIP is not a data system in the sense of producing or directly serving data. However, many of its members are data producers. ESIP serves as broker for earth science data ranging from satellite imagery to surface observations and models. ESIP provides a forum to aggregate and synthesize metadata for dataset descriptions, discussions about dataset applications and tools for analyzing and visualizing data. See [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/AQ_Dataset_Metadata_Workspaces DataSpaces] *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. *2005 - Air Quality Cluster formed *2007 – EPA/ORD becomes Third Strategic Partner *2003-2007 – Membership Grows from 27 to 106 Entities. Broad range See activity pages, presentations and concept papers at http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Air_Quality_Cluster Promote the integration and flow of Earth science data from collection and analysis to end-use. Metadata aggregator. Provide domain-specific context for data where metadata and other contextual information about earth science data is available to help understand how data are created and used. Not Given Not Given Not Given Not Given Promote the integration and flow of Earth science data from collection and analysis to end-use. No. Although many of its members provide that service. PrimaryDataStorage EndtoEndIntegration DataSystemValueVis DataSystemValueProcess DataSystemValueOther DataSystemValueDecisionSupport DataSystemValueConsolidation DataSystemValueAccess DataSystemRef DataSystemParam DataSystemHistory DataSystemDataSets DataSystemCoverage DataSystemArchUserFeedbck DataSystemArchToolsMethods DataSystemArchSecurity DataSystemArchOther DataSystemArchInterop DataSystemAppOther DataSystemAppModelEval DataSystemAppHealth DataSystemAppFcstReAnaly DataSystemAppCharact About PresentationURL DataSystemURL DataSystemName DataSystemAgencies Contactemail ContactName DataSystem