Review of Analysis Methods
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Project Plan Sent to Advisory Group
Ecosystems
- Create Advisory Group
- Ad-hoc collection of experts in a variety of ecosystem related disciplines
- Invited through professional associations and references
- Identified through authorship in papers identified during document search
- Sought to recruit advisory group members a number of geographic regions
- Document Identification and Analysis
- wide range of publicly available sources
- built through literature searches and online searches
- applied a range of keywords to identify documents
- Analysis
- Searched documents for discussion of earth observation requirements for ecosystems and reference to adequacy or inadequacy of currently available parameters
- Extracted information of ecosystem type, region of interest, observation parameter and parameter characteristics (frequency, spatial resolution, timeliness, accuracy/precision, and adequacy)
- Prioritizations to be determined with input from Advisory Group
Disasters
- Identify advisory group
- Send AG survey to narrow the scope of the report
- Method
- Preliminary review to determine if it provided specific disaster-related EO requirements
- If so, document was thoroughly reviewed and approporiate data extracted
- Disaster type, region of interest, and observation parameter and characteristics (frequency, spatial resolution, timeliness, accuracy/precision, and adequacy)
- Compiled extracted informaiton into a database
- Used a frequency analysis to identify priorities, based on parameter keyword frequency and aggregation of similar parameters
Energy
- Identified documents specifying parameters required or reference to parameters currently in use
- Parameter characteristics (spatial resolution, coverage/extent, temporal resolution/frequency, timeliness, accuracy/prevision
- Prioritization
- Identify cross-cutting parameters, across different SBA types
- Identify parameters projects to gain prominence over the next 20 plus years
- AG refinement
Climate
- Advisory Group
- Identification of docs
- Document review
- Comparison of priorities across documents
- Comparison of priorities across regional and global needs