Air Quality Data Systems Assessment
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
==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.
