1. EO Profile of GML and HMA Product Catalog for VITO CVB
HMA-T Phase 2 KO Meeting
2-3 July 2008, Frascati
Steven Smolders, GIM nv
Tim Jacobs, VITO
Frédéric Houbie, ERDAS
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2. Overview Objectives Consortium Technical work
Overview of VITO CVB
Overview of products
Our Approach
WBS, Schedule, Key Personnel, Payment Plan
Questions raised at TEB
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3. Objectives
I1. “To permit the evolution and test of the HMA interoperability standards”
by applying the EO Profile of GML (OGC ) and the EO extension Package for ebRIM Profile of CSW (OGC ) on a wide range of EO, derived EO and airborne Products
I3. Promote uptake of these standards by European Institutional users and geospatial product developers
by applying these standards on VITO CVB systems and hence allow VITO to gain experience
by providing a reference implementation for these standards
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4. Consortium - Roles GIM VITO ERDAS Coordination
Study the application of the EO Profile of GML on VITO products
Deploy and host reference EO CSW Catalogue
VITO
Input into the EO Profile of GML study
Provide metadata and auxiliary information for reference implementation
ERDAS
Provide adapted EO Proxy framework
and support for implementation
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5. VITO CVB VITO “Centrum voor Beeldverwerking” Current situation
hosts the Image Processing Center for SPOT-VEGETATION data (CTIV)
develops derived EO products
Vegetation
Agricultural
Recently Atmosphere products (COPS B: AOD , PM10)
develops and uses airborne sensors (APEX)
Current situation
infrastructure developed on a per project basis
specific metadata set per CVB Service
Desired future situation
One Catalogue, harmonised metadata
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6. VITO - CVB
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7. Systems - Products CTIV Commercial Services
Products from the Vegetation sensors onboard SPOT4/SPOT 5
Raw and synthesis products
Commercial and free products
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8. Systems - Products GeoSuccess, VGT4Africa, MARS
Operational products based on remote sensing data, which give timely information on the evolution of the vegetation cover and its related parameters
Products to be used in study:
other: Biome Classification, Burn Scar Detection, Apparent Green Cover Percentage, Globcarbon products (Burnt area products (BAE), Leaf Area Index (LAI), FAPAR, Vegetation Growth Cycle Parameters (VGCP))
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9. Systems - Products GMFS Global Monitoring for Food Security
GSE (GMES Service Element (GSE)) project
aims at operational services for crop monitoring in support of Food Security Monitoring to serve policy makers and operational users
Products to be used in study:
Other products: Cultivated Area, Crop Emergence Periods, Extent of Cultivation, Agricultural Productivity, Crop Yield Assessments
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10. Systems - Products Atmosphere products AOD* AOD PM10
developed in context of ESA COPS-B project
Aerosol Optical Depth images : measure for extinction of sunlight within atmosphere and hence related to particulate matter
Derived from MERIS imagery
AOD*: weighted with Boundary Layer Height
Derived PM10 concentration maps
AOD* AOD PM10
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11. Systems - Products Apex (Airborn Prism Experiment)
developed by VITO, RSL, … on behalf of ESA
airborne (dispersive push broom) imaging spectrometer
hyperspectral data (300 bands) (wavelength range between 400 nm and 2500 nm )
a spatial ground resolution of 2 m to 5 m.
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12. Approach
1) Map existing product metadata for all of the above referenced products on the EO Profile of GML elements
Complete existing metadata descriptions with mandatory elements within the EO Profile of GML
For elements required to describe the products but missing in the EO Profile of GML metadata, assess the need for
a) Vendor Specific elements using the vendorSpecific/SpecificInformation/localAttribute and vendorSpecific/SpecificInformation/ localValue elements
b) develop a specific derived GML application schema
Outcome: Technical note containing mapping tables, GML instances and (if required) GML application schemas
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13. Approach
From OGC r3
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14. Approach 2) Set-up a CSW Catalogue
scope to be determined in function of outcome of study
Single “VITO Product Family” or combination
using ERDAS EO Proxy framework
Replica database and (modified) ERDAS EO Proxy framework hosted at GIM
Conformance tested (provided that no specific schemas are required)
Integrated in the HMA Prototype
Operated by GIM for one year after FP
Output: Reference implementation, TS, ATP, VTR, CITE Report
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15. Approach
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16. Work Breakdown Structure
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17. Planning & Payment schedule
Original Planning
KO in October duration of 11 Months
Adapted planning
Accept revised Payment Schedule
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18. Question of TEB Present Plan for take-up of this approach at VITO
Memo of VITO and GIM submitted to answer the question
Background: study of VITO to
recommend standards that improved access to VITO CVB via harmonised web services
recommend software products
prepare road map for implementation
This study is seen as a preparatory step in the road map and will be conducted in parallel with the setup of a prototype of the overall (not only CSW) solution.
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19. Questions
Confirmation that OGC r3 Version 0.9.1, 01/08/2007 as can be found on is the version to be used
Confirmation that OGC r3 Version 0.1.9, 14/05/2008, as can be found on is the version to be used
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