GEOSS Web Services (GWS) OGC support of GEOSS Workshops Telecon 3 August 2007 George Percivall Open Geospatial Consortium

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GWS Telecon - Agenda GEOSS 2007 Workshop plan - George Percivall ISRSE, June GEOSS Workshop - Karl Benedict IGARSS, July GEOSS Workshop - Rudy Husar GeoNorth, August GEOSS Workshop - T. Fisher, R. Thomas, G. Yettman AfricaGIS2007, September GEOSS Workshop OGC TC Boulder, September GEOSS Workshop Any Other Business

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically The Workshop Series 2007 “The User and the GEOSS Architecture” Apr-07IEEE SoS and Signal Conferences Hawaii, USASOSE and Information infrastructure for GEOSS Jun-07Intl Symp on RS of Environment - ISRSE San Jose, Costa Rica Sustainable dev through EO, Agriculture Jul-07IGARSS07Barcelona, Spain GEOSS System components Aug-07IPY GeoNorthYellowknife, Canada Climate and biodiversity Sep-07AfricaGIS07Burkina FasoEO for water, health Sep-07OGC TCBoulder, CO USA Regional Decisions for Climate Change Nov-07Asian Conference on Remote Sensing Kuala Lumpur, MY Environment Disaster/ Tsunami

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically OGC participation in GEOSS Workshop Series’07 Apr-07IEEE SoS and Signal Conferences Hawaii, USASimon Cox, CSIRO Jun-07Intl Symp on RS of Environment - ISRSE San Jose, Costa Rica Karl Benedict, Univ. New Mexico Jul-07IGARSS07Barcelona, Spain Rudy Husar, Wash Univ-StL Aug-07IPY GeoNorthYellowknife, Canada Robert Thomas, Greg Yettman Sep-07AfricaGIS07Burkina Faso(ESRI, ITC) Sep-07OGC TCBoulder, CO USA IPCC Data Dist Centres: A. Woolf; R. Chen IP3 Scenario: Stefano Nativi, Nov-07Asian Conference on Remote Sensing Kuala Lumpur, MY Shailesh Nayack, INCOIS

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GWS and OGC Network OGC Network has been updated based upon on the 13 June Telecon discussions: – Note in particular the beginnings of a page for base WMS servers useful for most all demos. If you anticipate wanting to edit the OGC Network Pages for GEOSS: –

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Demos Lessons Learned Application-specific demos are a great way to engage with user communities that would not necessarily look to OGC standards. Emphasize message about using distributed components with open standards vs. standalone application Tremendous enthusiasm and commitment of agencies and research groups to collaborate Demo provides a fast-track to skills development and knowledge transfer. Live demo is compelling but dependent upon communications networks that may not be reliable at workshops Live demo should be accompanied by a pre-recorded demo Presentation of the demo works best with two projectors: one for the client application, the other for a powerpoint presentation explanation Start early to get satellite data Desirable to involve participants from the local region Keep it simple, focus on the magic of interoperability GEOSS Demos are persistent using OGC Network –

GEOSS Workshop/GWS Demo at International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment - ISRSE. 29 June, San Jose, Costa Rica Karl Benedict Senior Research Scientist, IT Manager Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop at ISRSE Chaired by Ian Dowman, President ISPRS OGC Demonstration led by Karl Benedict, University of New Mexico Theme: Sustainable dev through EO, Agriculture

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically OGC Demo at ISRSE GEOSS Workshop Workshop Summary Workshop presented on Friday, June 29 Data Used –WMS services hosted by local Ames server (including high- resolution Digital Globe data) –FAO data services –JPL OnEarth –SERVIR WMS Services –USGS NationalAtlas –DM Solutions ~15 Attendees Demonstrated the web-based and desktop GIS WMS client Provided overview of models and functional roles of WMS, WFS and WCS service models Presentation is available here:

GEOSS Workshop/Demo at IGARSS 2007 Barcelona Spain 22 July 2007 Rudolf B. Husar, Professor and Director Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis (CAPITA), Washington University, St. Louis

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop at IGARSS Rudy Husar set up a wiki site as the workspace for the 'virtual workgroup'. – Rudy will present the results of this demo at a future GWS telecon.

GEOSS Workshop/Demo at IPY GeoNorthYellowknife, Canada August 2007

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop at GeoNorth Workshop Theme: “The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Biodiversity and Energy in the Arctic " –Organized by Ellsworth LeDrew Workshop precedes the First International Circumpolar Conference on Geospatial Sciences and Applications, Yellowknife, N.W.T., Canada, August 20-24, 2007 –

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop at GeoNorth Draft agenda for August 20th, afternoon. Open Standards for GEOSS Interoperability –Presentation by G. Percivall (D. Nebert?) including emphasis on AI Pilot and Portals Demonstration of GeoWeb Portal Candidate –Robert Thomas Overview of biodiversity demonstrations –presentation by Terry Fisher Biodiversity Demonstration –with intro presentation by Greg Yetman Biodiversity Demonstration –with intro presentation by Robert Thomas Discussion and wrap-up: Terry, Doug and George Also consider GBIF

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Open Standards for GEOSS Interoperability GEOSS Concept Requirements on GEOSS Contributed Systems Open Standards for Geospatial Interoperability OGC Web Services Standards meet GEOSS Architecture Requirements Major OGC Specifications for GEOSS Market Implementation AI Pilot: Portal, Clearinghouse, scenarios What to watch for in the demos Presentation by G. Percivall/D. Nebert

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GeoWeb Portal Candidate Presentation Committed to Standards Our Vision of the GeoWeb Portal The Compusult WES GeoWeb Portal A suite of applications providing a real-time, web-based, geospatially enabled portal to provide centralized interoperability, discovery, collaboration, sharing, access and management over highly disparate information. How WES is Currently Used –Selected Organizations using Web Enterprise Suite WES GeoWeb Portal Architecture Overview WES supports the following standards: WES Platform Independence –WES X software components have been designed and implemented to operate across multiple platforms. Operating Systems currently supported: WES: The Total Geospatial Portal Solution GeoWeb Portlets included in WES –Discovery, Discovery agents, Viewer, Publisher, Administration, Colaboration, Other Benefits of a WES GeoWeb Portal Demonstration/presentation by Robert Thomas

INFORMATION GÉORÉFÉRENCÉE EN LIGNE LOCATION-BASED INFORMATION ONLINE Caribou Migration Scenario IPY GeoNorth

Overview Description of Caribou Migration Data Complementary Data Layers Overview of Migration for all Herds All Herds for each season with seasonal snow extent Caribou Herd Migration Animation

Caribou Seasons Dec 1 – Mar 31 - Early, Mid Winter Apr 1 – May 31 - Spring, Spring Migration & Pre- Calving June Calving June Post Calving and Movement July Early Summer July 16- Aug 7 - Mid Summer Aug 8-Oct 7 - Late Summer and Fall Migration Oct 8 – Nov 30 - Rut and Late Fall

Complementary Data Layers Cities, Canadian provinces,hydrography, vegetation - National Atlas of Canada Snow cover NSIDC – Atlas of the Cryosphere – Northern Hemisphere

Overview of Migration for all Herds

2006 Caribou Season 1 (Dec 1-Mar 31) – March Snow Cover

2006 Season 2 ( Apr 1-May 13) – May Snow Extent

2006 Caribou Seasons 3&4 (Jun 1-30) – June Snow Extent

2006 Caribou Season 5 (June 1-15) – July Snow Extent

2006 Caribou Season 6 (July 16 – Aug 7) – Aug Snow Extent

2006 Caribou Season 7 (Aug 8- October 7) – Oct Snow Extent

2006 Caribou Season 7 (Oct 8- Nov 30) – Nov Snow Extent

Caribou Herd Migration Animation This animation shows the caribou migration by season for each year from 1996 to Note the Season & Year appear in the top left of the animation. grations-transverseMercator.avi

Comments Any ideas/suggestions are most welcome

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Basic Scenario Search for relevant data View/explore in client(s) Save/share map context document Demonstration/presentation by Greg Yetman

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Data Discovery GEOSS Catalog would be ideal –DADDI metadata catalog (data, not services) –Earth-Sun Gateway Demonstration /presentation by Greg Yetman

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Data Exploration SEDAC Map Client (presently Geographic, next week a version in a polar projection should be available) – WMS & WFS Support Can save and share WMC docs Most content off-topic (Atlas of the cryosphere permafrost data shown at left) Demonstration /presentation by Greg Yetman

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Data Sources Have the Caribou data been posted? Cryosphere Atlas has a number of interesting layers Demonstration /presentation by Greg Yetman

Additional info for GeoNorth

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop at GeoNorth Data sources for Demos –Use both Polar and Cylindrical projections. (Comment on telecon that we may not want to use EPSG: polar stereographic projection centered at the north pole - to be clarified) –(Need caribou data on WMS - maybe with CARMA group?) –NSIDC Atlas of the Cryosphere - John Maurer –WMS from Geoconnections –Atlas of Canada - WMS with base layers (road, boundaries, hydrography, populated places, etc.) for its 7.5 Million framework data set. Additional Data sources and clients to be identified in conjunction with AI Pilot

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically WMS for Canadian topographic data The link to WMS for Canadian topographic data in the North is You will have to register to get the address of the service, it is free. The available digital topographic data are vector layers, DEM layer,ortho Landsat 7 layer, raster maps, etc. I hope these data may be of help in supporting the scenarios for the GEOSS workshop in Yellowknife.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically caribou migration data is available on a WMS. Polar scenario demo at the IPY conference in Yellowknife. Here is some info about the data:The caribou migration data is available on a WMS. The GetCapabilities can be found at Here is a URL that describes the data. Here is the URL to a CubeWerx client for this WMS: Here is a neat animation of the caribou migration data: caribouMigrations- transverseMercator.avi grations-transverseMercator.avi Here are some scenarios suggested by one of the science people. 1. Movement of caribou in spring and timing of greeness 2. Calving area use and greeness 3. CAR Movement and timing and location of snow or ice on lakes 4. CAR Movement and location of winter road, mines 5. Paterns in wintering areas and fire zones (show red on sat images) etc

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GBIF network Hi George, The number of records in the GBIF network for the Polar scenario bounding box for the period April 1996 to December 2006 is ca From a quick exploration, the main groups are birds (19538 records), mammals (2156) and arachnids (741). If anyone has more specific questions about particular groups, please get back to me. Best regards, Éamonn Just received main that Stefano Nativi’s demo re: biodiversity from Barcelona maight also be available for GeoNorth.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GBIF network The following table provides a breakdown of the georeferenced species occurrence records per country served via the GBIF network. Amongst African countries, you will see that South Africa is way ahead with records, followed by Madagascar, Tanzania, Congo, Kenya, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, each with more than 10,000 records. Depending on which African countries/areas you plan to use for the scenarios, I can do a more detailed check within a country to see what species are best represented. Canada is well represented with a record count of I'll post record counts for the Polar bounding box area of interest to the Polar scenario list shortly. You can do your own exploration through our data portal at:

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GBIF network REST services: Occurrence Web Service –The occurrence web service provides access to records of the occurrence of organisms from the GBIF network. – Resource Web Service –The resource web service provides access to records describing the data resources in the GBIF network. – Provider Web Service –The provider web service provides access to records describing the data providers in the GBIF network. –

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop, August, GeoNorth June - Call for GWS participants June - Develop societal benefit area scenario June - Confirm Internet capabilities at workshop site June - Identify scenario specific data sources July - Components available on-line July - Client server testing Aug - Demo scenario testing and Client Capture Aug 19 - On-site testing Aug 20 - Workshop demos Aug - posting results to OGC Network

GEOSS Workshop/Demo - AfricaGIS “Earth Observation to benefit Water and Health” Burkina Faso, Saturday/Sunday September 15/16

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop at AfricaGIS forum for discussing the development and operational issues of an advanced global information system for supporting national, regional and global decisions impacting society. Specific emphasis will be on the use of earth observation for management of water and health in Africa. and go to GEOSS and then workshops at the top of the home page.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop, AfricaGIS 2007 July - Call for GWS participants July - Develop societal benefit area scenario July - Confirm Internet capabilities at workshop site July - Identify scenario specific data sources Aug - Components available on-line Aug - Client server testing Aug - Demo scenario testing and Client Capture Sept 14 - On-site testing Sept Workshop Sept - posting results to OGC Network

GEOSS Workshop/Demo - OGC TC “Regional Decisions for Climate Change ” Boulder, Friday/Saturday, Sept 21/22

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop at OGC TC, Sept How the GEOSS Architecture supports citizens and policy makers in making decisions based upon regional predictions of climate change –Recognizing that the science to predict regional changes in climate is still advancing, –Address interoperability arrangements for decision support tools and predictive models used around the globe to support policy and management decisions.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Regional Climate Demonstrations IPCC Data Distribution Centres –Andrew Wolff –Bob Chen IP3 Scenario on Biodiversity and Ecosystems –focus the demonstration on the effects of regional climate change. –working on valuable datasets and expertise for this point (i.e. regional climate change) –Stefano Nativi

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically CIESIN data sets via WMS and WFS project and data are described here: – The GetCapabilities URLs for the services are: – – You can view them in our client here: –

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically CIESIN IPCC data services see it in CIESIN client at: – 180, , , http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapviewer/index.jsp?cntx=Climate.xml&c_box=- 180, , , via WFS at: – st=GetCapabilitieshttp://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapserver/wfs/CLIMATE_VULNERABILITY?Reque st=GetCapabilities via WMS at: – st=GetCapabilities&Service=WMS&Version=1.1.1http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapserver/wfs/CLIMATE_VULNERABILITY?Reque st=GetCapabilities&Service=WMS&Version=1.1.1

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Regional Climate Demo and AI Pilot Architecture Implementation Pilot –GEOSS, FedEO and Tri-Lateral –Conducted using OGC procedures Regional Climate Demo is one of the Scenarios for AI Pilot More information about AI Pilot –Call for Participation: 35 responses, 105 organizations –Kickoff Meeting 5&6 June at ESA/ESRIN –Demostration at EO Ministerial Summit, November 2007 – Regional Climate WG mailing list: –

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GEOSS Workshop, OGC TC Sept 2007 July - Call for GWS participants July - Develop societal benefit area scenario July - Confirm Internet capabilities at workshop site July - Identify scenario specific data sources Aug - Components available on-line Aug - Client server testing Aug - Demo scenario testing and Client Capture Sept 20 - On-site testing Sept Workshop Sept - posting results to OGC Network

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GWS Telecon - Any Other Business Next telecon - confirmed during the telecon: –Friday, 10 August 2007 –UTC :00 am EDT – GWS listserv additions? –Changed listserv name from GSN to GWS Any other business