1. Roberto Cossu roberto.cossu@esa.int A federated e-Infrastructure for discovery and access of multi-disciplinary data in the GEO-Hazard community INFRA-2010-1.2.3 : Virtual Research Communities Duration : May 1, 2010 – April 30, 2012 Total EC funding : 2.15 M EC Grant Agreement no. 261623

2. Digital Earth Communities 10 & 11 June 20132European Supersites Coordination Workshop Outline Introduction to Digital Earth: –Needs of the Digital Earth Communities –Related initiatives: GEOSS and ESFRI GENESI-DEC: –A multidisciplinary federation for data discovery and access SCIDIP-ES: –Data and knowledge preservation

3. Digital Earth Communities 10 & 11 June 20133European Supersites Coordination Workshop Introduction to Digital Earth Digital Earth is a visionary concept by former US vice president Al Gore in 1998,Al Gore –virtual representation of the Earth, spatially referenced & interconnected with digital knowledge archives. Beijing Declaration on Digital Earth (Beijing Sept 2009, 6th Intl Symposium on Digital Earth)Beijing Declaration on Digital Earth –"Digital Earth … will be a catalyst in finding solutions to international scientific and societal issues." –… should play a strategic and sustainable role in addressing such challenges to human society as natural resource depletion, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, environmental degradation, natural disasters response, population explosion, and, in particular, global climate change."

4. Digital Earth Communities 10 & 11 June 20134European Supersites Coordination Workshop Digital Earth communitys needs

5. Digital Earth Communities 10 & 11 June 20135European Supersites Coordination Workshop Digital Earth communitys needs Questions and needs –How to discover such complex, distributed and very specific data holdings? –How to access available data and results for user defined processing? –How to provide a multi-disciplinary environment for discovery and access to data Questions and needs –How to discover such complex, distributed and very specific data holdings? –How to access available data and results for user defined processing? –How to provide a multi-disciplinary environment for discovery and access to data

6. Digital Earth Communities Digital Community: GEO/GEOSS 10 & 11 June 2013European Supersites Coordination Workshop6 Needs of exploiting the growing potential of Earth observations to support decision making in an increasingly complex and environmentally stressed world.

7. Digital Earth Communities Digital Community: Environmental ESFRI 10 & 11 June 2013European Supersites Coordination Workshop7 Frontier environmental research increasingly depends on a wide range of data and advanced capabilities to process and analyse them.

8. Digital Earth Communities 10 & 11 June 20138European Supersites Coordination Workshop8 GENESI-DEC Overview Earth Science e-infrastructure connecting Digital Repositories and e- Infrastructures spread all over Europe and worldwide allowing: –Easy and fast access to heterogeneous data (airborne, in situ, satellite) to authorized users (following providers policies); –Effective data and service discovery capabilities through the same interface in a transparent and homogeneous way; –On demand processing capabilities; –Easy integration of new Digital Repositories thanks to the standardization and scalability –Accessibility through user applications via the exposed programming interfaces. –Bridging components for security interoperability –Services for semantics tools Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations – Digital Earth Communities

9. Satellite, airborne and in-situ products Interferograms computed from satellite data (either on demand computation or discovery of previously generated products) In- Situ data Satellite data Semantic enriched search of heterogeneous data based on geo-spatial and temporal criteria defined by the user GENESI-DEC: the full picture 10 & 11 June 2013European Supersites Coordination Workshop9 Atmospheric measures from airborne sensors

10. Digital Earth Communities GENESI-DEC: the full picture Processing services to generate added value products Example: Earthquake Van, 23 October 2011 Interferograms, crustal deformation WebProcessingServices, Grid, Cloud computing … Input: satellite SAR products, auxiliary files, digital elevation models 10 & 11 June 2013European Supersites Coordination Workshop10

11. Digital Earth Communities 11European Supersites Coordination Workshop10 & 11 June 2013 High level architecture GENESI-DEC uses a federation of distributed catalogues 2-steps discovery: One or more Aggregator Nodes contain the metadata at series collection level Each federated resources exposes a catalogue containing the metadata at dataset product level All the GENESI-DEC catalogues can be accessed using OpenSearch protocol User can directly query the Catalogues using OpenSearch or through Clients, as the Generic GENESI-DEC webportal Data/products remain at their original location, i.e., where the Data Provider store them; the Catalogues provide the user with the link to directly access the data Services can be called by the portal (or other clients) for semantically enriched search, WPS execution, workflow chaining, data tagging

12. Digital Earth Communities 10 & 11 June 201312European Supersites Coordination Workshop Big success story Impacts –GEO-GEOSS GENESI-DEC technology is contributing to the enhancement of GEOSS (in the GEOWOW EC project, Kick-off November 2011) GENESI-DEC technology is used by the GEO Supersite initiative to serve the needs of the GeoHazards community –ENVironmental RIs: ENVRI: Several ESFRI projects have started an EC project (ENVRI) where GENESI-DEC approach is used for discovering, accessing, and sharing cross-community data –Satellite community ESA Grid Processing on Demand operational environment has adopted OpenSearch standard in its catalogue ngEO system, which will become ESAs new Earth Observation data access portal, serving new missions including GMES Sentinels will adopt a catalogue based on OpenSearch/OGC CEOS is considering to use OpenSearch interface for CWIC

13. Digital Earth Communities 1310 & 11 June 201313European Supersites Coordination Workshop Big success story Impacts –GEO-GEOSS GENESI-DEC technology is contributing to the enhancement of GEOSS (in the GEOWOW EC project, Kick-off November 2011) GENESI-DEC technology is used by the GEO Supersite initiative to serve the needs of the GeoHazards community –ENVironmental RIs: ENVRI: Several ESFRI projects have started an EC project (ENVRI) where GENESI-DEC approach is used for discovering, accessing, and sharing cross-community data –Satellite community ESA Grid Processing on Demand operational environment has adopted OpenSearch standard in its catalogue ngEO system, which will become ESAs new Earth Observation data access portal, serving new missions including GMES Sentinels will adopt a catalogue based on OpenSearch/OGC CEOS is considering to use OpenSearch interface for CWIC GENESI-DEC in ENVRI will speed up the construction of several European environmental infrastructures enabling frontier environmental research GENESI-DEC in GEOSS is enabling stakeholders to discover and access an increasing number of data yielding a broad range of societal benefits GENESI-DEC will allow an easier access to satellite data for scientific and operational purposes.

14. Beyond the data The preservation of data (the bytes) is useless without the preservation of the knowledge associated with the data (e.g. the quality, the process to generate them) We must: Ensure and secure the preservation of archived data and associated knowledge for an unlimited time span. Ensure, enhance and facilitate archived data accessibility. File specs. Level 0Level 1 ProcessorAlgorithmUser Manual Desc. Info Publications

15. Project: SCIence Data Infrastructure for Preservation – Earth Science (SCIDIP-ES) INFRA-2011-1.2.2 Data infrastructures for e-Science Project ID: 283401 Project Type: CP-CSA Start Date: 01.09.2011 Duration: 36 Months Website: www.scidip-es.eu Total Budget: 7,721,082 EC Funding: 6,599,992 Total funded effort in person/months: 605 Coordinator: European Space Agency Contact Person: Mirko Albani (ESA)

16. SCIDIP-ES Objectives 1)To develop and deploy generic and sustainable digital data preservation services and toolkits. Validate and use them in the Earth Science domain as a start. 2)To harmonise data preservation policies and approaches, metadata and ontologies in the Earth Science domain: Paving the way for the set-up of an harmonized and common approach for the Long Term Preservation of Earth Science Data.

17. From the users perspective Ability of the user to discover earth science data using syntactic and semantic features Once data has been discovered users have the ability to reach the preservation network/knowledge of the selected data resource Chance to link different data sets belonging to different ES domains via Rep Info network - tests to be set in that direction

18. http://portal.genesi-dec.eu/ http://www.scidip-es.eu/ http://envri.eu/ http://www.geowow.eu/ THANKS roberto.cossu@esa.int