Make a difference in case of emergency!
Geobliki: A Platform For Emergency Response
Pat G. Cappelaere (pat@vightel.com)
D. Mandl
L. Derezinski
S. Frye
EO-1
Where 2.0
May 29-30th, 2007
San Jose, CA
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Disasters Happen!
Data Shortly After…
• Sept 11
... about 2 weeks
• Hurricane Katrina
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NASA and Others Have Assets
Aura
Terra
EO-1
Aqua
IceSat
CALIPSO
ALTAIR
• SOPHISTICATED PAYLOADS...
• SO WE ARE GETTING DATA...
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But Where is The Data When We Need It?
• Restricted Data Access
• Science Data Rights
• Charge Account?
• They Won’t Let You Have Access to It
• You Don’t Know Where the Data Is
• You Know Where It Is But Don’t Know How to Get It
• Or You Can’t Have Access to It
• You Got It but Data Is Not in Right Format
• And It Is Too Complicated to Process It Right
• Do Not Have a Scientist in the Trunk
• You Have Access to Satellite but It Is Too Complicated to
Task From the Field
• Data/User Mismatch
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Who Needs the Data?
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What Happened?
• Broader Audience
• Not just the engineers/scientists
• Many New Organizations Involved
• Broader Needs For Humanitarian Assistance/Emergency Response
• Plume, Contaminants, Oil Spills, Water..
• Those Users are Focused on Specific Products & Realtime Delivery
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So...Create One or More Data Nodes
• Sensor Planning Service (SPS) to Task Asset
• Sensor Observation Service (SOS) to get Raw Data
• Web Feature Service (WFS) to find Processed Features
• Sensor Alert/Notification Service (SAS/WNS)
GeoBliki: A Generic Platform than can be used For Emergency Response:
Ruby-on-Rails App
Quick Prototyping
Quick Deployment
Simple 80% Solution
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Easy Data Aggregation
• WFS-Simple / OpenSearch (A9)
• GeoRSS Data Publishing & Mashup
• But we may need a little more…
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GeoRSS + GeoNames
GeoNames Data Access
http://www.geonames.org/export/

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A SensorWeb Architecture
OGC
SWE Nodes
DSS
Web Processing
Identity Providers
WPS IdP
Services
Certificate Authorities
Catalog
Models and
CS/W Models
Services
Simulators
Security Perimeter
Using OpenID 2.0
Govt / NG
And PKI Organizations
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Last Problem But Not The Least
And You Want Me to Let People I Do Not Know Task My Satellite?
• Identity 2.0
• Decentralized User Authentication
• Easy and Cheap to Implement
• User Centric/Open Source
• Relies on Trust among Cooperating Organizations/Entities
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/ PKI Approach
SWE
IdP
https
DSS
Identity Propagation
Email Organization Access Rights
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[Geo-Data] Mass Production
This is What We Achieved... 13

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But What Do We Really Need?
For A Perfect Fit!
Custom Tailored Data Products For Customer Size=1 14

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How Can We Get There?
• Automated Workflows
• Service-chains
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From Geo… to GeoBPMS...
<process-definition
BPMN
xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=\"http://www.openwfe.org/flowdef.xsd\"
name=\"EO1 Tasking Workflow\"
revision=\"0.1\"
theme=\"n/a\"
security=\"restricted\" >
<sequence>
<participant ref='XForms' task='RequestTasking’ comments='Enter EO-1
Tasking Parameters' />
<participant ref=\"SPS\" task='GetFeasibilities’ comments='Check EO-1
Tasking Feasibilities'/>
<participant ref='XForms' task='SelectFeasibility' comments='Select
Desired Feasibility' />
<cancel-process if=\"${f:status} == 'cancelled'\" />
<participant ref=\"SPS\" task='Submit'
comments='Submit Task to JPL'/>
<cancel-process if=\"${f:status} == 'cancelled'\" />
<participant ref=\"SOS\" task='Publish' comments=\"SOS will make raw
data available\"/>
<set field=\"msg\" value=\"You've got data\" />
<participant ref=\"WNS” task='Email' />
</sequence>
</process-definition>
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GeoBliki + Other Open Source Tools
• OpenWFEru
• Process Engine
• Ruby Rools
Ruby Rools
• Inference Engine
• XForms
• User Interface
A GeoBPMS… with...
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Community MapBuilder: Ajax Client
WFS
Application
Development
WFS-B Framework
Library for
OpenLayers Rendering,Tiling...
GeoRSS
WCS Google Yahoo MSN
WMS
Maps Maps Maps

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It is Going to Get Hot!
Next 12 months
Next 3 Months
For A Global Earth Observation
System of Systems (GEOSS)
- WildFires
- Tanker Oil Spills
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Thank You!
• Pat Cappelaere, Vightel Corporation, MD
• pat@cappelaere.com
Come And Visit Us At:
• pat@geobliki.com
http://www.geobliki.com
• Dan Mandl, NASA GSFC, MD
• dan.mandl@gsfc.nasa.gov http://eo1.geobliki.com
• Linda Derezinski, Innovative Solution, MD
• linda@i-sol.biz
• Stu Frye, Noblis, VA
• sfrye@noblis.org
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