1. Earth Science Information Partners
Air Quality Cluster
Meeting page:

2. Goals
1. Serve as facilitator and advisor for the Earth science information community.
2. Promote efficient flow of Earth science data from collection to end-use.
3. Improve quality and usability of Earth science data and information systems.
4. Expand the use of Earth science information – get it to the decision-makers.
5. Educate the public about Earth science and science information systems.
Activities
Provide Neutral Turf where Major Earth Observing Agencies Can Work Together with Other Community Interests to Advance Key National Objectives
Provide a Broad-Based Community-of-Practice where Strategic Partners can Seek Advice, Generate New Collaborations and Cultivate New End-Users.
Provide a Forum in which Inter-Agency, Inter-Disciplinary, Interoperability Problems can be Addressed and Resolved.
Provide an Earth Information Exchange where the Products and Services of all ESIP Members can be Easily Found and Acquired.
Provide domain-specific context for data where metadata and other contextual information about data is available to help understand how data are creating and used

3. ESIP Air Quality Cluster
Objective is to connect air quality data consumers and data producers:
bringing people and ideas together on how to deliver ES data to AQ researchers, managers and other users/consumers
facilitate and demonstrate the information flow of from data providers to air quality consumers
data
tools,methods,services
users
AQ Cluster brings together groups and builds links among them in order to achieve an effective use of data in decision-making that could not be achieved by any organization acting on its own. a)
AQ Cluster aids in reuse of data, processing tools and other services so that projects, programs and agencies avoid the burden of developing those capabilities or establishing connections to them.
data
tools,methods,services
users b) . c)

4. The Air Quality Web Landscape (not comprehensive)
NASA Programs/Projects
REASoN (Friedl, Moe)
WRAP (Ambrosia, Sullivan)
EDAC (Morain, Benedict, Hudspeth)
LAITS (Di, Yang)
AQ Web Infrastructure (Husar, Falke)
ACCESS (Lindsay, Maiden)
Giovanni (GSFC – Kempler)
DECISIONS (Friedl)
3D AQS (Hoffman, Engel-Cox)
RS for BlueskyRAINS (Sullivan, Raffuse)
Aura in AQ Forecasting (McHenry)
AIST (Moe)
SAMITS (Falke)
Sensor Web Architecture & Demo (Mandl)
DAACS
Geoscience Interoperability Office (Bambacus, Cole)
Mediators
DataFed (Husar)
Unidata (Domenico, Ramamurthy)
CDE (Ambrosia, Sullivan)
Giovanni (Kempler, Leptoukh, Berrick)
LAITS (Di)
RSG (Paulson)
NEISGEI (Falke)
Portals / Catalogs
Earth Information Exchange (ESIP)
Earth Observation Portal (GEO)
Geospatial One Stop
Earth Science Gateway (NASA)
Environmental Science Connector (EPA)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
ECHO (NASA)
LEAD (NSF)
EPA Programs/Projects
AMI (Young, Keating)
GEO (Young, Washburn, Lyon, Foley)
AirNOW (Wayland, Dickerson)
AirQuest
OAQPS (Scheffe, Frank, Dimmick, Solomon, Pace)
IDEA (w/ NASA,NOAA) (Szykman)
HTAP (Keating)
Remote Sensing Gateway (Paulson, Walter)
Environmental Science Connector (Kapuscinski)
Interoperability Efforts
GALEON
NASA GIO – DAACS
ESIP
OGC GSN (demos)
OGC OWS testbeds
GEOSS pilots
NOAA Programs/Projects
State
Air Quality Forecasting (Fine, NESDIS)
NGDC (Haberman, Kozimor)
Hazard Mapping System (Ruminski)
Aura in AQ Forecasting (Lamb, Vaughan)
RPOs
Vermont (Poirot)
Forest Service Programs/Projects
International
Bluesky (Larkin, Goodrick)
ESA/KMNI

5. Recent Cluster Activities
NO2 Data Synthesis Workshop (Oct31-Nov1) -
DataSpaces / Workspaces / DataSheets –
October S. California Smoke Workspace -
Air Pollution Event Analyses –
EPA Air Quality Data Summit participation -
Communication and interaction via:
Wiki
Weekly Friday telecons
list
ESIP meetings

6. OMI NO2 Interoperability Network Example Data Flow
Source: Frank Lindsay, 2007

7. Suggested Activities Today
Review DataSpaces
Refine ESIP Air Quality Cluster mission in preparation for EPA Air Quality Data Summit

8. EPA Air Quality Data Summit comments
GEOSS borne DataFed ( and Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), appear to embrace the basis tenets of data system interoperability and have used “air” as a powerful illustrative medium.
Does this DataFed/ESIP structure benefit the air quality user community? Or, does it have enormous potential to do so? What needs to be accomplished to elevate DataFed/ESIP to a more prominent position in mainstream data sharing and analysis activities? Or, has it reached that point?
What, then, is the relationship among DataFed/ESIP and other organizational systems? Should other systems make some form of a commitment to embrace”standards” inherent in the DatFed/ESIP venture?
What would those commitments be? By the way, what is the distinction between DataFed and ESIP?
Why bother? I have the ability to retrieve data and manipulate it the way I need to? Do not encumber me with all this collaboration and data harmonization talk.
From:

9. Winter ESIP Meeting, January 8, 2008, Washington DC
ESIP Air Quality Custer Initiative Workspaces: Connecting Data Producers, Analysts Decision Makers
Winter ESIP Meeting, January 8, 2008, Washington DC

10. SOA allows accessing distributes AQ data

11. The Information Interoperability Stack
Web 2.0

12. Data-Centric Workspace: DataSpaces
Semantic Wiki: Structured (RDF and Unstructured Content
Open, Standard Matadata - RDF
Ready for Export/Harvesting by Registries, Catalogs
Describe Dataset
Catalog - Find Dataset
Discuss Dataset
Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

13. App-Centric Workspaces: EventSpaces
Specific Exceptional Event
Catalog - Find Dataset
Harvest Resources

14. Workspaces
The Web is being transformed: It is becoming more participatory
See the explosive growth of wikies, picture-sharing, blogs, Facebook
This architectural, technological and cultural change is Web 2.0
Web 2.O is good for Earth Science community since it allows
Better harvesting of current knowledge
However, many cultural, legal and other berries remain
Workspaces may connect info providers, analysts, decision makers