Difference between revisions of "Air Quality Data Systems Assessment"

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EPA cannot make the needed investments alone, and .
 
EPA cannot make the needed investments alone, and .

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==Air Quality Data Systems Assessment is now published


EPA cannot make the needed investments alone, and .

There are many AQ data systems that operate independently, without a common vision.

EPA needs these systems to serve EPA’s customers better and more efficiently

  • Actively support this partnership to help it work.


GEOSS provides a global vision; it will take work and partnership to apply it to EPA.

EPA as a “user-focused Agency” can lead and invest in formal partnerships with defined goals and shared technical principles.

In the near-term, make minor re-alignment of current EPA systems and invest towards these principles, and, more importantly, establishing them in future investments.

  • A better functioning partnership will help EPA understand its unique role, the roles of other partners and help it focus and target its own resource investments.
  • EPA should establish an OAQPS Data Coordinator to lead the partnerships within and outside EPA and moving the science-to-operations process.
  • Refresh the list of OAQPS internal data priorities and establish a systems roadmap

towards them.

  • Focus on EPA’s data provider responsibilities: stewardship, basic access, and metadata collection and delivery.