Air Quality Break-out, ESIP 2010 Summer Meeting

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The Air Quality Workgroup will be meeting on Wednesday and Thursday during the ESIP Summer Meeting.

Remote Participation

Dial-in Information:

Phone: 866-489-0573 (US, Canada, VOIP); 205-354-0149 (international) Meeting Code: *2279431*

WebEx

Meeting Number: 731 616 340

If you have a webcam please turn it on during the discussions with the full group, so that every one can see you.

To join the online meeting (Now from iPhones too!)

1. . Go to https://freetrial.webex.com/freetrial/j.php?ED=136015207&UID=933437522&RT=MiM3
2. . Enter your name and email address.
3. . Click "Join Now".

July 21, Wednesday

1:15-2:45 Eastern

New Projects (20-minutes)

• CyAir - Cyberinfrastructure for Air Quality Management

Funded Networking Projects Updates (5-min each)

• CEOS AC Portal
• Giovanni
• RSIG
• AIRNow
• HTAP Network
  • 2009 Progress Report
• DataFed
• others (please add to this list)

GEO-ESIP Community Activities (5 min each)

GEO AQ Community of Practice

• GEO AQ CoP Collaborative Website
• GEO AQ CoP at HTAP, 2010-06-15, Brussels
• GEO AQ CoP at UIC Mtg, 2010-02-15, London

AQ GEOSS Community Infrastructure

• File:2010-07 AQInfrastructure(2).ppt | Clickable AQ Infrastructure

• AQ Earth Observation Requirements; User Requirements Registry
  • GEO URR AQ Framework
  • GEO URR Brochure

• WCS/WMS/WFS for Accessing data
  • WMS Documentation
  • WCS Access to netCDF files

• ISO metadata for finding data
  • AQ Metadata fields - identifying which are ISO Core/INSPIRE/CSW Core Queryable
  • ISO 19115/19115 AQ Community Record Documentation

• GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot AIP-3
  • AIP-3 AQ Collaboration Workspace

Discussion Focus Areas (20min each)

• Institutional and human factors challenges and opportunities in interoperability

• Interoperability successes among projects and use/planned use of GEOSS AQ Community Infrastructure
  • Lessons learned and guidance that can be formulated for others to use in their implementations
  • Challenges and new approaches to implementing interoperability
  • Define next steps for interoperability testing among projects
  • update interoperability matrix

• Virtual AQ Interoperability Standards Implementation Workshops: making them work for you

• CyAir Reflections: Given discussion above: What does this mean for CyAir?

July 22, Thursday

11:00-12:00 Eastern

• Outline next Interoperability Standards Implementation 'Virtual Workshops'
• Define goals, scope and logistics for face-to-face/virtual AQ Interoperability Standards Implementation Workshop
  • Listing of current connected datasets (with monitoring of service performance)
  • Example of health performance on AQ uFIND - shows status of server (how many layers returned) and status of indiv. layer
• Plans for GEO-VI Plenary Air Quality 'Showcase'

Ideas and Suggestions for Summer Meeting

• Entire should be virtual - expect that more than half of participants might be remote.
• Potential collaboration with the Tech workshops from Tuesday
• Describe HTAP Network, ACP, other AQ projects by the way that they leverage AQ Community Infrastructure

1. identifying and begin registering the emerging air quality data-as-services from the various projects e.g. (HTAP network; Atmp Comp Network, CyAir)
2. using the ISO metadata for cataloging, discovery and finding the shared data resources
3. agree on a few practical use cases for demonstrating interoperability and networking

We could also begin work on the

• convention for metadata for understanding the observations (surface, satellite, model, emission...)
• distributing the shared tools and methods (server, client, registration...)

A particular topic that would help GEOSS is a participatory discussion/feedback on the User Requirements Registry for air quality. A possible way to approach this is to ask the project representatives to identify their respective user requirements. I can provide more later..