GeoChronos - SpecNet Workshop 2009 Presentation

An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth Observation Scientists Presented by Cameron Kiddle Research Fellow, Grid Research Centre

Outline
Challenges
GeoChronos
Demonstration
Status
Project Participants
SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Collaboration Challenges
Familiarity with new tools for collaboration
Keeping all interested parties in the loop
Finding related work and researchers
Keeping up to date with current research
Collaboration while working in the field

Data Challenges
Acquisition of data
Many different data sources
Different regulations/mechanisms for accessing data
Lack of automation
Finding the right data
Managing data
Scattered and unorganized data
Inadequate tools for recording/maintaining metadata
Data without metadata is meaningless
Lack of suitable metadata standards
Validation of metadata
Tracking provenance of data
Pre-processing of data
Raw data typically cannot be directly analyzed
Significant amount of time spent preparing data for analysis
Lack of automation

Application Challenges
Access to software available in research lab while in field or other locations
Installing, configuring and updating software
System dependencies of software
Awareness and suitability of available software
Sharing applications
Getting help in using applications
Sharing results and getting feedback
Co-location of data and applications

An on-line platform
For:
Earth Observation Scientists
Facilitating:
Collaboration between scientists
Data access, management and sharing
Application access, management and sharing
Leveraging:
Web 2.0 and social networking technologies
Semantic Web technologies
Cloud computing technologies

Collaboration Solutions
Social networking portal
Elgg-based (elgg.org)
Social networking services
Blogs
Tags
Media/document sharing
Wikis
Friends/contacts
Groups
Discussions
Message boards
Calendars
Status
News Feeds
SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos - http://geochronos.org/

Data Solutions
Data Acquisition
Automated acquisition of data from sensors (ground, airborne, satellite) or third party
Data Storage
Store, share, browse and search data
i.e., spectral library
Data Processing
Automated data workflows
i.e., mosaic, reproject and subset MODIS data

Application Solutions
Interactive Application Service (IAS)
On-line, on-demand access to scientific applications
Share application sessions and data with other users
Access control to applications
Batch Processing Service
Batch processing environment for longer running data processing tasks or simulations
For use directly by individual users or as part of automated data workflows

Demonstration SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Collaboration - Dashboard SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Collaboration - Activity Feed SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Collaboration - Groups SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

IAS - Application Catalogue SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

IAS - Storage Space SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

IAS - MultiSpec SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Spectral Library - Browse SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Spectral Library - Spectra SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Spectral Library - MetaData SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Spectral Library - Add Metadata SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Spectral Library - File Contents SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Spectral Library - Ancillary Data SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Status
Currently in development phase
Opened up to a small number of test users
Currently over 50 users from Europe, South America and North America
Test usage of portal at IAI-UofA International Summer School in July 2009
Slowly open up to different communities of users as development progresses
Production portal: mid-late 2010

Project Team SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos - Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa University of Alberta Dr. John Gamon University of Alberta Dr. Benoit Rivard University of Victoria Dr. Rob Simmonds University of Calgary Prinicipal Investigators Project Coordination Platform Development Domain Scientists

Virtual Organization SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos -

Contact Information SpecNet Workshop June 22, 2009 GeoChronos - Cameron Kiddle [email_address] http://pages.cspc.ucalgary.ca/~kiddlec/ http://geochronos.org/ http://grid.ucalgary.ca/ http://ceos.ualberta.ca/ http://www.cybera.ca/

GeoChronos - SpecNet Workshop 2009 Presentation

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