1. 1 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 Integration Platform for Earth Science Data - Ashraf Memon (GEON at San Diego Supercomputer Center)

2. 2 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 GEON Project Designed to create a cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences NSF Large ITR project – collaborative effort  GEON is creating an IT infrastructure to “enable” interdisciplinary geoscience research  PI institutions across the United States  Collaborators around the world  AIST, Japan  University of Hyderabad, India  Chinese Academy of Science, China  More collaborations in discussion

3. 3 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 Technical Areas GEONgrid systems and Portals –Common GEON “software stack”, with local customizations –PI’s responsible for different software packages via “Central” mechanism –GEON “reference” portal bundled as part of standard distribution, with standard collection (core) of portlets –Satellite portals at PI/partner sites, with customized portlets

4. 4 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 Technical Areas Ontology-based Data Registration, Data Integration, Ontology-based “Smart Search” –Geo-Ontology development –Registering data to ontologies –Data Integration Carts © : ad hoc (“on the fly”) integration using ontologies Map Integration –Presenting geoscience information on GIS layers is useful and intuitive –Extending map integration based on shapefiles to … –Knowledge-based integration of Web Mapping Services

5. 5 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 Technical Areas Scientific workflows – Kepler –A visual scientific data analysis and modeling environment –Mineral classification, gravity modeling –LiDAR data ingestion and data analysis pipelines Grid-enabled High Performance Computing applications –E.g. SYNSEIS –Submit job to TeraGrid from GEON Portal, using GSI authentication Visualization –“GEON Browser”, Google Earth based Viz services at GEON portal, Augmented reality displays

6. 6 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 The GEON Portal (Core Functionality ) –Data Registration (GEON Registration) –Data Search (Geon Search) –Collaboration (GEON Workspace) –Integration (Integration Cart TM )

7. 7 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 Data Provider / Contributor Data Registration System Data Repository Data Store 1.Hosted Catalog Reference Reference Contributor Data Registration System Remote Data Reference 2.Non Hosted Data Catalog Reference GEON Data Registration System Local Data GEON Data Registration

8. 8 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 GEON Search Researcher Search System Data Repository GEON Search Keyword Spatial Temporal Concept References Remote Data Local Data

9. 9 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 GEON Workspace Workbench System 1.Workspace Catalog 2.Collaboration myGEON Researcher References Query Render Integrate Workbench System Catalog Researcher / Collaborators References Query Render IntegrateShare

10. 10 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007

11. 11 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 GEON Portal and collaborations Other projects using GEON portal infrastructure –Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) NEES Portal –National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) NEON Portal –Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) CUAHSI-HIS Portal –Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO) CBEO Portal Collaborations with IRIS, USGS, Earthscope (dataportal)

12. 12 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 Summary of GEON-Geogrid Collaboration Architecture design and specification Portal Interoperability –GEON-GEOGRID interoperability LIDAR Collaboration –Possibilities Sharing of science resources –Using WMS/WFS/WCS

13. 13 www.geongrid.org CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE GEOSCIENCES Global Earth Observation Grid Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, March 20-22 2007 Questions? More Information amemon@sdsc.edu 1-858-822-0017 www.geongrid.org