GeoChronos - CANARIE NEP Showcase 2009 Presentation

An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth Observation Scientists

An on-line platform
For:
Earth Observation Scientists
Facilitating:
Collaboration between scientists
Application access, management and sharing
Data access, management and sharing
Leveraging:
Web 2.0 and social networking technologies
Cloud computing technologies
Semantic Web technologies
Funded by:
CANARIE - Network Enabled Platform (NEP-1) program
Cybera
( http://geochronos.org/ ) Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Solutions
Portal rich with social networking features
Tags, bookmarks, profiles, blogs, wikis
Friends/contacts, groups
Discussions, message boards, calendars
Status, activity feeds
Technology
Portal built on top of a social networking platform
Initial prototype built in Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com )
Secondary prototype built on white label social networking platform Ning ( http://www.ning.com )
Current portal built on open source white label social networking platform Elgg ( http://www.elgg.org )
Next Steps
Plan to keep using Elgg platform and upgrade as new versions released
Develop new Elgg plugins as needed
i.e., plugins for more easily sharing publications and presentations
Collaboration Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Dashboard Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Groups Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Solutions
Interactive Application Service (IAS)
On-line, on-demand access to scientific applications
Share application sessions and data with other users
Technology
IAS is hosted on top of a cloud computing platform
Use ASPEN ( http://grid.ucalgary.ca/projects/DataCentre/ ) which can dynamically provision virtual machines to host applications based on user demand
Next Steps
Batch processing and automated workflow services
Handle longer running data processing tasks and simulations
Automate data workflows involving data acquisition and transformation of data into different data products more suitable for use by scientists (i.e., mosaic, reproject and subset MODIS data)
Applications Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Application Catalogue Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Interactive Application Service Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Solutions
Spectral Libraries
Store, share and browse spectral data
View spectral plots, metadata, ancillary data and maps
Manage and generate metadata for spectra
Create and share metadata schemas
Technology
iRODS ( http://www.irods.org/ ) for data storage/management
Semantic Web technologies such as RDF (Resource Description Framework) to link/relate data
Next Steps
Generalization of spectral library solution
Acquire, store, manage, browse and share other types of data
MODIS and other satellite data
Flux tower and phenology tower data
Meteorological data
Other data
Data Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Spectral Library - Browse Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Spectral Library - Metadata Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Portal Usage
70 users from Europe, South America and North America
Used at IAI International Wireless Sensor Networking Summer School in Edmonton in July 2009 (~40 participants)
On-going usage by Tropi-Dry community for collaboration and sharing documents
Slowly opening up portal to different communities of users as development progresses
Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Apr 21, 2009 - CANARIE NEP-1 Synergy Workshop (Winnipeg)
Jun 22, 2009 - SpecNet Workshop (Lethbridge)
Jun 24-26, 2009 – Meeting of the Collaborative Research Network II (CRN2) and Small Grant Program for the Human Dimensions (SGP-HD) Principal Investigators (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Jul 6-18, 2009 - IAI International Wireless Sensor Networking Summer School (Edmonton)
Aug 15, 2009 – Elgg Camp (Boston)
Oct 14, 2009 – Summit 09 (Banff)
Presentations/Demonstrations Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

R. Curry, C. Kiddle and R. Simmonds. Social Networking and Scientific Gateways. To appear in Proceedings of the Grid Computing Environments Workshop , Portland, OR, November 20, 2009.
N. Markatchev, R. Curry, C. Kiddle, A. Mirtchovski, R. Simmonds and T. Tan. A Cloud-based Interactive Application Service. To appear in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science , Oxford, UK, December 9-11, 2009.
Publications Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Project Team Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009 Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa University of Alberta Dr. John Gamon University of Alberta Dr. Benoit Rivard University of Alberta Dr. Rob Simmonds University of Calgary Prinicipal Investigators Project Coordination Platform Development Domain Scientists

Virtual Organization Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009

Contact Information Summit 09 Oct. 14, 2009 http://geochronos.org/ [email_address] http://grid.ucalgary.ca/ http://ceos.ualberta.ca/ http://www.cybera.ca/

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