AQCluster Telecons 31Oct08

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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