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The following summary is compiled by notes taken by Sanjeeb Bhui and Stefan Falke. Feel free to add anything has been inadverntently missed.  
 
The following summary is compiled by notes taken by Sanjeeb Bhui and Stefan Falke. Feel free to add anything has been inadverntently missed.  
  

Revision as of 15:35, January 13, 2006

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The following summary is compiled by notes taken by Sanjeeb Bhui and Stefan Falke. Feel free to add anything has been inadverntently missed.

Steve Young & Ed Washburn, Co-chairs of EPA GEOSS Coordinating Committee

  • Steve Young gave a presentation highlighting the data and tool needs of environmental decision makers and EPA's interest and hopes for GEOSS.
  • The need for help in interpreting data, not just more data, was emphasized.
  • An important need is real time data access and analysis.
  • New project beginning soon under EPA's Advanced Monitoring Initiative (AMI) focus on GEOSS objectives
  • Much of the discussion centered on the possibility of a workshop between the Cluster and EPA that would highlight EPA's earth observation needs from the

perspective of their AMI projects and would provide potential opportunities for the collaboration between the Federation and EPA. Action item: Organize a Cluster-EPA workshop. Steve Kempler and Stefan Falke are taking the lead.


EIE Portal The portal should be more than a list of datasets. It should provide context to those datasets, including how they are used and how they are created.

Ready ability to access data for decision makers should be made through the portal.

Identify user needs and intended target audience. Instead of pushing data/tools to the user community through the portal, we could attendthe user's internal

meetings and present what the Cluster can offer.

The Cluster's focus so far has been in the air quality mangement and research communities. It was suggested The portal should help identifying the user needs and intended target. Instead pushing data/tools to the user community in cluster or related meeting it was

suggested to attended

Federation of earth science information partner and others need to be identified with which the cluster can work together. Some of these include communities

forming within the Geosptial One Stop Portal.

Action taken: Howard Burroughs has created a Federation-wide template in which to list key data, models, decison and management tools. THe air quality cluster section of the wiki contians "collection bins" for items that are . The items in these bins

Access and analyze the current state of connection among key players in decision support processes.


Wiki Use wiki to capture what is known and provide ideas and discussion both internally and for public.

Howard Burroughs has created a template to begin filling in

Air quality and the ESIP Education Committee Rita Freuder gave a presentation and asked the Cluster to identify available educational resources in the ESIP Federation. Cluster attendees had limited educational components to offer but it was suggested that the Cluster could provide input to educatonal focused projects. Action taken: Created a "collection box" of air quality educational projects, tools, and products.

Technical Track Discussion Rudy Husar presented a web services Karl Benedict presented