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WGISS 18, September 2004 Presented by Ivan/Yonsook

GRID and e-infrastructure for international cooperation on Earth Science report from EOGEO 2004 workshop, london 23-25 june 2004 by A Doyle and L Fusco. WGISS 18, September 2004 Presented by Ivan/Yonsook. Background - key objectives.

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WGISS 18, September 2004 Presented by Ivan/Yonsook

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  1. GRID and e-infrastructure for international cooperation on Earth Sciencereport from EOGEO 2004 workshop, london 23-25 june 2004by A Doyle and L Fusco WGISS 18, September 2004 Presented by Ivan/Yonsook EOGEO 2004 – Jun 2004 1

  2. Background - key objectives • At last EOGEO 2004 Workshop a specific session was dedicated to the “Grid and e-infrastructure for international cooperation on Earth Science”. • This session was attended by 75+ participants coming from industry, research laboratories and national institutions. • Objectives for the meeting: • Review the status of international Grid initiatives in Europe and in USA which are / could be of interest for fostering large scale cooperation in the Earth Science (and EO) community • Present specific community Grid experiences, achieved results and plans in various Earth science domains, specially in relation with OGIS web services standard developments EOGEO 2004 – Jun 2004 2

  3. Specific contributions • Different contributions highlighted the following applications and interests in specific Grid infrastructure and technology areas: • Earth science parameters validation (eg. Ozone…) • System engineering (e.g. new instruments data simulation…) • Data assimilation and models (e.g. operational oceanography, flood simulation…) • Interface to operational environment for product generation, reprocessing… • Convergence of OGIS protocols and standards with emerging web services standards, ontology • Workflow Management • User interfaces • Security • Open Source aspects • The abstracts and presentations can be found at http://www.eogeo.org/Workshops/EOGEO2004/ EOGEO 2004 – Jun 2004 3

  4. Discussion issues The final Round Table gave the opportunity to discuss a number of issues such as: • Earth Science requirements vis-à-vis Grid capabilities and limitations • How can Earth Science benefit more from Grid, considering that the Grid infrastructure deployment is not “fully based” on the Earth Science Communities requirements • How the Community would consider the possible convergence between Grid and web services and would take advantage of the specific OGIS mature approach to web services • How Grid could better support the ongoing international cooperation in large world environmental programmes aims to operational service deployment (IGOS, GODAE, GMES, GEO…) • How the Earth Science community could benefit from new initiatives such as EC e-infrastructure and collaboration@work EOGEO 2004 – Jun 2004 4

  5. Recommendations for funding agencies and programmes (EC-IST and US-NSF) • The Earth Science (including the geo-information) community, as represented at the EOGEO 2004 workshop, formulated the following statements to support the preparation of new Grid R&D initiatives by EC and NSF: • The International Earth Science community (e.g. CEOS, IGOS) is involved in large international initiatives (e.g. GEO, GMES), which typically deal with overwhelming data volumes. A lot more data will need to be managed in the near future. • Extensive experience exists within the Earth Science community in establishing Web Services Standards for handling geospatial information and the Community is fully aware of the potential value of convergence of this with Grid related technologies • It is understood that meeting Earth science needs requires very close cooperation of different actors and integration of all available means, e.g. communication, infrastructure, middleware, and applications. The Community is committed to take advantage of such emerging developments which are crucial for solving very complex data exploitation tasks such as data assimilation, data fusion, and data mining. EOGEO 2004 – Jun 2004 5

  6. The Earth Science Community recommends that : • Earth Science applications (atmosphere, marine, land …) shall be considered as a high priority as a proving ground for validating the development and exploitation of Grid based infrastructures meeting both research and operational communities' needs • The Earth Science Community requirements include immediate science and technology challenges for Grid based Research Infrastructure in areas such as: - federation and sharing of data holdings; High-speed connectivity to access data and share resources - real time dimension for many applications, e.g. data assimilation in environmental forecast models - information movement and delivery beyond the pure science community (e.g. decision makers, wide user communities in all countries); deployment of production quality services; controlled and secure access - metadata standardization for system and application management - convergence of technologies around Web Services, extensions of Open GIS standards, semantic web techniques - new e-collaboration paradigms, overcoming cultural issues - Better deployment of under-exploited resources EOGEO 2004 – Jun 2004 6

  7. Conclusions The participants of the EOGEO 2004 Workshop special Grid session encourage the formation of research initiatives by the EC and NSF in support of the above recommendations EOGEO 2004 – Jun 2004 7

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