1. GEOSS Air Quality Community Infrastructure ESIP, 23 July 2010 Knoxville, TN E.M. Robinson, R.B. Husar, S.R. Falke, E.T. Habermann, A. Warnock, M. Hogeweg, J. Lieberman

2. Hurdles “The user cannot find the data; If he can find it, cannot access it; If he can access it, ; he doesn't know how good they are; if he finds them good, he can not merge them with other data” The Users View of IT, NAS 1989

3. SOA Actions Actions: Register– Discover -Access User Provider Broker The data reuse is possible through the service oriented architecture of GEOSS. Register Discover Access

4. Data Providers WCS/W MS Data Protocol WMS, WCS (netDCF CF) + conventions

5. WCS/W MS Com. Cat Metadata ISO 19115/19119 subset for Geospatial Data Data Providers

6. WCS/W MS Com. Cat OGC CSW Queryable Air Quality Specific ISO 19115 CSW Profile OGC CSW Returnable Metadata Description Data Binding Air Quality Community Record Metadata ISO 19115/19119 subset for Geospatial Data Data Providers

7. WCS/W MS GEOSS CSR Com. Cat Data Providers

8. WCS/W MS GEOSS CSR Com. Cat GEOSS Clearinghouse Data Providers

9. WCS/W MS GEOSS CSR Com. Cat GEOSS Clearinghouse Data Providers Com Client Data User

10. WCS/W MS GEOSS CSR Com. Cat GEOSS Clearinghouse Com Client Data User Data Providers GetCapabilities GetData Capabilities, ‘Profile’ Data Where? When? What? Which Format? Server Back End Std. Interface Client Front End Std. Interface

11. WCS/W MS GEOSS CSR Com. Cat GEOSS Clearinghouse Com Client Data User Data Providers

12. Users Data Providers GEOSS Common Infrastructure Air Quality Community Catalog General search and use of GEOSS data and services AQ-specific search and use of GEOSS data and services Air Quality Community Infrastructure SEDAC DataFed Giovanni EDAC NGC ESA Data web service metadata registrations AIP-2 Workspace: https://sites.google.com/site/geosspilot2/air-quality-and-health-working-group https://sites.google.com/site/geosspilot2/air-quality-and-health-working-group 12

13. Next Steps: Continue to work with AQ community to improve the AQ-specific sections needed for sharper discovery Work with AQ data providers to register their services in the AQ Community Catalog Extend metadata unstructured user-contributed content through DataSpaces

14. Airnow DataSpace Dataset Description Dataset Discussion

15. Summary Discover: CSW/RSS/ISO Access: WMS/WCS Register: ISO Metadata User Provider GEOSS Clearinghouse Existing data and metadata standards now allow the application of SOA to air quality Over 30 air quality datasets are registered and accessible through the GCI

16. Acknowledgements George Percivall, OGC GEO Clearinghouses and GEO Portals: ESRI USGS Compusult

17. Links ESIP AQ Cluster AQ Community Portal | ISO 19115 AQ Metadata EditorAQ Community PortalISO 19115 AQ Metadata Editor AQ Community Catalog | AQ Client BrowserAQ Community Catalog AQ Client Browser

18. Goals of GEOSS Air Quality Community Infrastructure Test and evaluate the GCI for AQ applications. Registering and retrieving AQ data through the Clearinghouse Connect AQ Applications to GCI

19. Air Quality & Health Applications Observing Systems Informing the Public Enforcing Standards Hemispheric Transport Real-time Service Regulatory Analysis Policy Assessment Atmospheric Composition Science & Education Emission Surf. Obs. Satellite Model Population

20. Project A combines multiple data sources to generate near-real time information for the public Project A provides web service interfaces to some of its data and information Project A 20

21. Project B analyzes surface and satellite data in support of regulatory analysis and provides web services to their analysis output and analysis tools Project B 21

22. Project C provides a web services new data from its work Project C 22

23. New Project A new project uses services from projects A, B and C to meet its objectives 23