AIP CFP AQ Responses

AQ AIP workspace

Summary from OGC AIP Committee

• Primary responses: EPA, ESIP AQ Cluster, ICT4EO, ISPRA, Northrop Grumman, VIEWS, Washington Univ
• Contributing responses: CIESIN, Compusult, ESA, ESRI, GOES-R and GMU, INCOSE, NASA World Wind, NOAA NCDC GOSIC, NOAA SNAAP
• Topics
  • Air Quality and Human Health
  • Proposing formation of a GEOSS Air Quality Community of Practice
  • Wildland fire example
  • AIRNow system proposed with interoperable interfaces
  • user-defined areas for selected variables calculated by WPS
  • SensorWeb which might apply best to AirQuality if the air sensors
  • State of environment, emissions, and human health.
  • intercontinental pollutant transport model
  • Decision system pattern for AQ
  • Global surfaces of population counts, densities, and quality measure of population-weighted mean geographic unit area, at two scales.
  • Development of RM-ODP viewpoint descriptions

Further Analysis

EPA

Contacts

Phil Dickerson, EPA (attending kick-off)
Tim Dye, Sonoma Technology, Inc.

Infrastructure

Data Product Access: service, schema, encoding

• Interested in further definition for KML, WCS, WMS and other relevant GEO standards for air quality data.
• Want to work with GEO AIP to develop interoperable tools and techniques to include "non-traditional" data in AIRNow

Clients

• AirNow (AirNow Gateway)
• AirNow-International (AirNow Info-service)

Scenario

• Mentioned Northern California Fires of 2008
• Interested in working with GEO AIP community to refine scenario.

ESIP AQ Cluster

Contacts

• Stefan Falke, Northrop Grumman/Washington Univ. (attending kick-off)
• Rudy Husar, Washington Univ. (attending kick-off)
• David McCabe, EPA (attending kick-off)
• Frank Lindsay, NASA (attending kick-off)
• Erin Robinson, Washington Univ.
• Phil Yang, George Mason Univ.

Infrastructure

Catalogues, Clearinghouse, Metadata

• Community "catalog"
  • Air quality metadata records
  • Harvested by GEOSS registry
• Community Portal (based on Liferay, integrating features from ESIP Portal and NEISGEI Portal)
  • AQ user focus and access to contextual metadata and GEOSS components
• Community Metadata Workspaces
  • Harvest unstructured user-contributed contextual metadata

ICT4EO

Contacts

• Dr A Vahed, Meraka Institute, CSIR
• Deshendran Moodley, School of Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal
• Dr. Andreas Wytzisk, 52 North

Infrastructure

Data Product Access: service, schema, encoding

• Global TRMM precipitation anomolies
• Global EO-1 imagery
• Landsat-based high resolution model of Mozambique region
• SRTM DEM
• Envisat radar
• Real time weather data and forecasts from the South African Weather Service
• potentially Mozambique National Institue of Meterolology

Sensors and Models Access: service, schema, encoding

• OGC Sensor Web Services
• potentially fire detection and dispersion model services
• potentially fire danger index services

Scenario

• Sub-Saharan Africa fires

ISPRA

Contacts

• dr. Nico Bonora
• ing Michele Munafo

Infrastructure

Data Product Access: service, schema, encoding

• testing a near real-time (hourly) data access from quality monitoring network
• Italian National Environmental Information System (SINA) based on the European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONet)
• DEM
• land use/cover
• administrative boundries
• urban sprawl
• multitemporal remote sensing coverage
• WMS?

Clients

• ISPRA web GIS portal (map visualization)

Scenario

• emissions
• human health
• territory monitoring and phenomena analysis
• international pollutant transport
• historical monitoring data analysis
• urban green quantification

Northrop Grumman

Contacts

• Stefan Falke, Northrop Grumman (attending kick-off)
• Glenn Higgins, Northrop Grumman
• Aaron Swanson, Northrop Grumman (attending kick-off)
• Brian Dunn, Northrop Grumman (attending kick-off)

Infrastructure

Data Product Access: service, schema, encoding

• WCS to smoke forecast output

Sensors and Models Access: service, schema, encoding

• SOS for sensor metadata
• WCS to smoke forecast output
• Internet2 application and use

Clients

• PULSENet Sensor Web Client

Scenario

• Smoke monitoring, forecasting and AQ impacts

VIEWS

Contacts

• Shawn McClure, CIRA (attending kick-off)
• Tom Moore, WRAP (attending kick-off)
• Uma Shankar, UNC (attending kick-off)

Infrastructure

Catalogues, Clearinghouse, Metadata

• VIEWS/TSS metadata management

Data Product Access: service, schema, encoding

• VIEWS/TSS data access (WMS, WFS, WCS)

Clients

• VIEWS/TSS visualization and analysis

Scenario

• Intercontinental pollutant transport
• Exceptional events
• Retrospective air quality data analysis
• Projected air quality trends
• Emissions and emissions control strategies

Washington Univ

Contacts

• Rudy Husar, Washington University (attending kick-off)
• Erin Robinson, Washington University
• Kari Hoijarvi, Washington University
• Stefan Falke, Washington University (attending kick-off)

Infrastructure

Catalogues, Clearinghouse, Metadata

• DataFed Catalog for registering atmospheric composition data

Data Product Access: service, schema, encoding

• DataFed data access services (OGC WCS, WMS)

Workflow for derived product and alert generation

• DataFed workflow engine (SOAP/WSDL)
  • processing and orchestration services

Clients

• DataFed spatial-temporal browser
• NEISGEI thin client mashup applications