AQatESIP Jul07

Air Quality Sessions at ESIP Summer 2007 The ESIP Summer meeting features multiple sessions highlighting opportunities for interoperability among air quality related projects and initiatives. During the poster sessions Wednesday evening, projects will present existing data and tools for air quality applications. The air quality projects and applications presented Wednesday evening will provide some of the background material for Thursday’s “bar camp” structured discussions. Bar camp refers to workshop style interaction where session content is participant driven and open, rather than a series of presentations. Small ad-hoc breakout groups are expected during bar camp sessions where participants address topics. During bar camps, participants frequently jump between sessions and breakouts. On Thursday, the USGEO Architecture and Data Management Working Group (ADM) is holding a session on applying service-oriented architecture concepts to USGEO near-term opportunities (NTO). The ADM is currently preparing a white paper on the benefits of a service-oriented architecture approach to the Integrated Earth Observation System (IEOS), the US contribution to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). A basic tenet of GEOSS, and of IEOS, is that interoperability is required for success, and that interoperability pre-supposes integration at least at the level of the interfaces between components. The Air Quality Assessment and Forecasting (AQ) NTO and the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) NTO groups have been identified as a possible ADM proof of concept project. Thursday morning will consist of simultaneous, but separate, meetings among the air quality and drought groups to identify existing data sets and web services available within their particular domains. The breakout groups will also discuss cross-community applications, shared components among the communities and other opportunities for the two communities to collaborate in achieving more than could be achieved if the communities proceeded independently. Results from the morning sessions will be reported out at a Thursday afternoon joint session, at which the consensus opinion of the group will vote on the application(s) most likely to succeed. Time permitting, we will then try to do some designing, and possibly building, of those pieces we think are most viable. Ultimately, we’d like to be able to take advantage of the collaboration potential in the room, if not actually produce a beta-level tool that the Federation could then prototype and test. The ESIP Air Quality Cluster will be meeting Thursday late afternoon as a follow-on to the Wednesday and Thursday discussions to address opportunities for enhancing interoperability among air quality projects in support of USGEO and other air quality networking efforts. In summary, the air quality sessions during the ESIP meeting: July 18, Wednesday 7:00-9:00PM Air quality project demonstrations and posters during reception/poster session July 19, Thursday 8:30-12:00 Breakout to identify existing data and services and gaps for air quality and cross-domain web applications July 19, Thursday 1:30-5:30 Joint air quality and drought session to build cross-community applications July 19, Thursday 3:30-5:30 Air quality cluster to address interoperability gaps among air quality projects

The air quality sessions are further described and preparatory materials available at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/AQatESIP_Jul07

In preparation for the sessions, participants should read the IEOS Strategic Plan, the Air Quality and NIDIS Near-Term Opportunity Documents, the ADM Roadshow presentation, and any of a variety of information pertaining to service oriented architectures prior to attending. Most documentation is available at http://usgeo.gov; follow the links for Documentation (top left) or for the Architecture and Data Management Working Group (at the bottom left).