GEOSS Future Products Workshop Session 5 Introduction & Agenda Steven F. Browdy OMS Tech, Inc. IEEE March 26-28, 2013

Introduction This session is brought to you by the GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF). Three previous interoperability workshops conducted. Participating in this workshop in support of GEO Task IN-05. Purpose: The SIF provides advice, expertise and impartial guidance on issues relating to standards and interoperability for GEOSS. Goal: Enabling ever greater degrees of interoperability among GEOSS components through facilitation, technical analysis, advocacy and education. March 26-28, 2013

Agenda and BIOs Vision on GEOSS Evolution: Towards a GEOSS for all stakeholders Roberto Cossu (ESA, GEOWOW) Working on several projects dealing with EO applications and related innovation technologies with the overall aim of providing users with “easy” access to heterogeneous EO data and related processing services for their exploitation. Has acted as  Project Director of GENESI-DEC. Currently Technical Director of GEOWOW. March 26-28, 2013

Agenda and BIOs Linked Data: Another strategy for discovery and access William Sonntag (US EPA) Office of International & Tribal Affairs. Office of Global Affairs and Policy. Member of SIF Core team. March 26-28, 2013

Agenda and BIOs Unique Identifiers within Systems of Systems Joan Maso (CREAF, GeoViQua) Co-developer of the OGC WMS, WFS and WCS server and client MiraMon technology, and the MiraMon metadata profile. Active member of the OGC TC since 2003. Spanish representative for the current ISO 19115 revision process. Coordinator of the EC FP7 GeoViQua project. President elect of the Earth and Space Science Informatics division of the EGU. March 26-28, 2013

Agenda and BIOs Brokering for Multi-Disciplinary Interopera-bility: An EarthCube perspective Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa (NSIDC) Performs research on remote sensing of the cryosphere. Supports NASA's Earth Observing System. Helped establish IEEE's Committee on Earth Observations, which serves as IEEE's representative to the Group on Earth Observation, GEO. Was the original lead of the SIF and supports standards work in various domains. March 26-28, 2013

Agenda and BIOs Authentication, Single Sign-On, and User Management for GEOSS Steven F. Browdy (OMS Tech, IEEE) Works in EO data acquisition, processing, analysis, and metadata (primarily ocean and met data) Member of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation Co-Chair of the SIF Works with the DSWG on data documentation and the GCI implementation of the Data Sharing Principles Standards Registry representative to the GCI Providers group March 26-28, 2013