Minutes from AQ Cluster Session

Back to: Air_Quality_Session:_17th_Federation_meeting_highlights July 19, 2006 1:30 - 3pm

Powerpoint slides by Stefan Falke

• Introduction: Cluster has met 4 times. This meeting has an emphasis on collaborating between sessions.
• Cluster brings together different groups of people (data providers to users)

Today:

• Cluster Database
• Cluster contributor to Earth Information Exchange
• Pilot Project
• Collaboration and identify areas of overlap.

• Wiki: Air_Quality_Cluster
  • Background Cluster background
  • Cluster_Summary Cluster Summary - Bold items are in the cluster database. (If your name isn't on this list under Federation Participans and should be you can edit the wiki.) This is also a "container" and it should be added to by this group.
  • Resources - Meetings, presentations. Place for collecting resources.
  • Interactions facilitated by the ESIP AQ Cluster - Discussion of each of the listings.
  • Cluster resource available and again it's editable by the entire community.

• Earth Information Exchange on Geospatial One Stop (gen login:esipfed/pw: discover)
  • Wildfire application - provides page where domain specific applications can be highlighted.
  • Question Martha Maiden - vision of portal?
  • Stefan Falke - Work on describe and register the applications on portal and use EIE to highlight the ones that are AQ relevant. EIE another view/perspective to GOS or other catalog, simpler interface. Provide a jumping point to different applications ("mash-ups")

• • Question Brian Wilson - Technical limitations with portal?
  • (fill in response)

• Frank - Create portal for pool AQ resources. AirNOW example of collaboration of interagency work delivering near-realtime data.