1. GEO Land Cover Portal DR. YUQI BAI GEO IIB TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, CHINA DR. STEFANO NATIVI GEO IIB CNR-IIA, ITALY 2015.11.9

2. Outline GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) and Community Portal GEO Land Cover Portal (LCP): purposes and goals Convergence between GEO LCP and CoGland GCI’s support to the Community Portal

3. Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) Component and Service Registry (CSR) Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) GEO Portal GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) System of Systems GEOSSGEOSS

4. GEOSS Community Portal Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) Component and Service Registry (CSR) Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) GEO Portal Community Portal Domain Users

5. GEOSS Community Portal Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) Component and Service Registry (CSR) Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) GEO Portal Community Portal Domain Users Tailored resource Unique functions Domain-specific Interoperability arrangement

6. Outline GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) and Community Portal GEO Land Cover Portal (LCP): purposes and goals Convergence between GEO LCP and CoGland GCI’s support to the Community Portal

7. GEO Land Cover Portal It was firstly initialized in a discussion during AP-GEOSS Barbara J. Ryan Osamu Ochiai Wenbo Chu Stefano Nativi Yuqi Bai It was then endorsed by China GEO.

8. Purposes and goals to explore the possible connections between Providers, GCI, and end- Users to demonstrate approaches to establish a GEOSS Community Portal to provide validated best practices, successful stories, and lessons learned to prepare for two documents “GEOSS Guideline for Providers” “GEOSS White Book for End Users” Purposes Develop a functional GEO Land Cover Portal Deliver a “GEOSS Guideline for Providers” document Deliver a “GEOSS White Book for End Users” document Goals

9. GEO Land Cover Portal: System Architecture GlobCover GlobalLand30 GLOBAL LAND COVER CHARACTERIZATION MODIS Land Cover MOD12Q1 US National Land Cover Database Land Cover Data Providers (TBD)GCI componentsGEO Land Cover Portal GEO Land Cover Domain Users CSRCSR CSRCSR DAB Researchers Decision-makers Source metadata registration Content metadata harvesting FROM-GLC Service accessData discovery and access SIRSIR SIRSIR GEOSS Community Portal

10. Outline GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) and Community Portal GEO Land Cover Portal (LCP): purposes and goals Convergence between GEO LCP and CoGland GCI’s support to the Community Portal

11. Convergence between GEO LCP and CoGland Engaging more Land Cover (LC) and other related data Providing a harmonized view of diverse LC data Enabling and integrating domain-specific Web-based services They share many goals. CoGland is a big end-to-end vision, and GEO LCP could be its GUI interface. GEO LCP needs strong community support, and CoGland could help on this. They complement with each other. CoGland is going to build a GEOSS community portal !

12. Outline GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) and Community Portal GEO Land Cover Portal (LCP): purposes and goals Convergence between GEO LCP and CoGland GCI’s support to the Community Portal

13. Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) Component and Service Registry (CSR) Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) GEO Portal CoGland Portal Domain Users

14. GCI’s support to the Community Portal (2) Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) Component and Service Registry (CSR) Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) GEO Portal CoGland Portal Domain Users 1.Registering domain- specific standards 2.Registering domain- specific special arrangement

15. GCI’s support to the Community Portal (3) Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) Component and Service Registry (CSR) Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) GEO Portal CoGland Portal Domain Users 1.Classifying and registering available Land Cover data 2.Classifying and registering specific services

16. GCI’s support to the Community Portal (4) Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) Component and Service Registry (CSR) Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) GEO Portal CoGland Portal Domain Users 1.Fulling the query of available Land Cover data and services 2.Brokering, if possible, the access to the discovered services

17. The whole story Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) Component and Service Registry (CSR) Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) GEO Portal CoGland Portal Domain Users Direct access to the resources and services