AQCluster Telecons 31Oct08

October 31, 2008 Telecon

Topics (feel free to add your ideas):

• Transitioning from an ESIP Cluster to an ESIP Working Group
  • Working groups are eligible for ESIP funding support of the type we proposed a few weeks ago
• AIP Scenario
  • Have initial draft scenarios ready next week (Nov 7) so that transverse working groups develop use cases (discovery, access, use)
  • A template for scenarios is posted
  • Define scenario detials (data, area of interest, users, etc.)
  • Use cases: how do you discover - much more technology detailed and reusable across scenarios
  • Scenario would have "higher level", less tech-speak steps
• Community air quality data catalog for GEOSS
  • Create community catalog based on ESIP wiki, harvestable for GEOSS Clearinghouse
  • Provide tools/methods for creating standards based access services.
  • Register community-supplied standard services
  • Need to determine which services are to be registered in GEOSS
    • What's appropriate (what's suitable in meeting standards requirements)
    • Close loop with Data Providers for confirmation that service is to be registered
• International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, May 4-8, 2009, Stresa Italy.
  • The Co-Chair of GEOSS UIC, Gary Foley, EPA, has invited ESIP to submit abstracts that illustrate the GEO process, and inform potential users and decision-makers.
  • Thematic Sessions of possible interest:
    • Integrating Climate Change / Atmosphere considerations into decision-making
    • Disaster reduction and response
    • Observing environmental factors that affect human Health and well-being
    • Data and Information Systems: emerging SDI technologies (possible GEO session?)
    • Societal Benefits of Earth observations: Applications and Assessment Methodologies
  • Possible Presentations at Stresa:
    • GEOSS AQ Pilot / Community of Practice / ESIP AQ Workgroup
    • AQ Decision Support using GEOSS Infrastructure and Architecture
    • Use of Remote Sensing for AQ policy, AQ management and Informing the Public

Added Dec 12: Planned Session: Air Quality and GEOSS: Status, Issues and Panel Discussion

• 15 Min, Overview GEOSS - AQ: Foley, Friedl, Husar?

• 30 Min, Short Oral Presentations 5 x 6 min = 30 min (also presented as posters)
  • 196 Airnow International
  • 209 Ozone Dust DSS Architecture (link to GEOSS through Karl Benedict)
  • 830 Bucharest AQ Warning DSS (shown interest in GEOSS - request swap with Amy?)
  • 765 Exceptional Events using GEOSS
  • 745 GEO AQ Community of Practice

• 30 Min Panel Discussion (status issues, ideas, next steps?)
  • Foley (EPA, UIC)
  • Fridl (NASA, UIC)
  • EU AQ Agency Rep interested in GEOSS
  • EU Space Agency Rep interested in AQ
  • Other ??

• AQ Sessions at Winter ESIP Federation Meeting

Participants Brand Niemann Erin Robinson Rudy Husar David McCabe Ana Prados George Percivall Frank Lindsay