Global Earth Observation Integrated Data Environment GEOIDE

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Global Earth Observation Integrated Data
Environment (GEO-IDE)
NOAA and GEOSS Meeting Our Earth Observation
Needs October 22, 2007 Ken McDonald Data
Management Integration Architect Technology,
Planning and Integration Office National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
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Important societal issues require data from many
observation systems
Discipline Specific View
Whole System View
Current systems are program specific, focused,
individually efficient. But incompatible, not
integrated, isolated from one another and from
wider environmental community
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Technical Challenges

• Societal Benefits
• Improve weather forecasting
• Reduce Loss of Life and Property from Disasters
• Protect and Monitor our Ocean Resources
• Understand, Assess, Predict, Mitigate and Adapt
  to Climate Variability and Change
• Support Sustainable Agriculture and Combat Land
  Degradation
• Understand the Effect of Environmental Factors on
  Human Health Well Being
• Develop the Capacity to Make Ecological Forecasts
• Protect and Monitor Water Resources
• Monitor and Manage Energy Resources

• New observation systems will lead to 100-fold
  increase in data volume
• Increasing need for interdisciplinary use of data
  
• Integration of data among systems is needed to
  answer questions that address diverse societal
  benefits
• Current data management systems already face
  challenges

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NOAAs Observation System Target Architecture

• Target Architecture Principles
• Utility
• Interoperability
• Flexibility
• Sustainability
• Affordability

Coordinated with all appropriate
partners (international national)
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GEO-IDE - A NOAA Initiative

• GEO-IDE Global Earth Observation Integrated
  Data Environment
• Developed by the NOAA Data Management Integration
  Team (DMIT)
• Addresses GEO objectives at the agency level to
  meet NOAA objectives
• Ensures NOAA systems contribute to GEOSS and
  IEOS
• Continues strong NOAA role in USGEO and GEO
  including regional focus on the Americas
• Supports efforts to address emerging challenges
  to the NOAA and global community

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Project Oversight
Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere
All Goals
All Line Offices
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What is GEO-IDE?

• Concept Services-oriented architecture for NOAA
  data management systems, providing common
  services and leveraging the benefits of existing
  data management systems
• Vision A system of systems a framework that
  provides effective and efficient integration of
  many quasi-independent systems
• Foundation NOAA adopted data standards,
  principles and guidelines
• Result An integrated system of systems (user
  perspective) that is used to access the
  information needed to address significant
  societal questions

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Services-Oriented Architecture Construct for
Establishing GEO-IDE
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GEO-IDERelies Upon Standards

• Archive system standards
• ISO Open Archival Information Systems
• Metadata standards
• FGDC and ISO 19115 w/ remote sensing extensions
• Format standards
• XML Schemas, Spatial Databases (SQL), data
  formats (WMO, NetCDF, HDF, etc.)
• Standard names and terminology
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards
• Features, Coverage (data), Geographic Markup
  Language
• Web Services Standards (World Wide Web
  Consortium)
• Process for evaluating and adopting standards
  within NOAA

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Initial Steps Toward GEO-IDE

• Published a GEO-IDE Concept of Operations
• Developed a Draft Implementation Plan
• Identified set of sub-teams and activities to
  address priority topics.
• Standards
• Architecture
• Communication
• Training
• Defined fast-track standards process and
  preliminary list of standards

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Development Approach

• In near and long-term, GEO-IDE approach is to
  work with and through programs and projects,
  NOAA-wide.
• GEO-IDE is not a large development project
• Effort will require support from the individual
  projects and continued endorsement from NOAA
  management
• GEO-IDE will require some level of dedicated
  resources to support
• Coordination of the standards adoption process
• Oversight of technology assessments and trade
  studies
• Support to NOAAs interface to interagency and
  international initiatives
• Possible development of infrastructure elements
• Assistance to projects implementing the GEO-IDE
  vision

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Major ChallengeUnderstand/Reconcile Different
Perspectives
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Near-Term Priorities

• Finalize GEO-IDE Implementation Plan
• Work with related efforts to coordinate scope and
  efforts
• Refine responsibilities and tasks of the
  sub-teams
• Obtain direction to move forward on
  implementation
• DMC, NOSC
• Approve and implement data standards adoption
  process
• DMC already identified this as high-priority task
• Philosophy of adopt, adapt, and only as a last
  resort create standards
• Identify, select and advance initial pilot
  projects
• In collaboration with existing projects

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GEO-IDE Summary

• Framework to effectively integrate NOAAs many
  systems (a System of systems )
• Minimize impact on legacy systems
• Utilize standards
• Work towards a service-oriented architecture
• Better integration of data and products across
  disciplines
• Contribute to an learn from US IEOS and GEOSS