GIO briefing at REASoN Educ Tech Wkshp

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Earth Science Enterprise
NASAs Geospatial Interoperability Office Marge
Cole GST March 2004
Accelerating the realization of economic and
societal benefits from Earth science,
information, and technology
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Current GIO Projects

• Earth Science Gateway (ESG) Prototype Portal -
  Earth Science Data to be available for Research,
  Education and Applications
• Portal Installed / Tuned
• Raytheon implemented WCS on data pools
• Raytheon / Ionic developed CPS to work with any
  WCS
• Raytheons implementations to be interfaced with
  ESG
• Overall upcoming Demo and requirements / feedback
• WMS Global Mosaic - Landsat 7 Global Dataset
  8.500 orthorectified scenes
• Highest spatial resolution (30m, 15m, pan
  sharpened)
• Accessible w/any web browser (http//onearth.jpl.n
  asa.gov/)
• Showcase ESE data (National Applications, USGS
  National Map, Geospatial One Stop
• Production done at JPL and AMES
• Deployed in March / Demo to take place at HQ
• Transition Mosaic to Industry (WMS hosting)
• ROI - Study to perform a Benefits/Cost Analysis
  on open standards based interoperable solutions
• Never Performed
• RFIs received, Full and Open Competition
• Challenges Comparisons and Life Cycle /
  Technology
• Geospatial Interoperability Reference Model
  (GIRM) - FGDC/GAI produced tool to detail how any
  geospatial software can plug into larger
  infrastructure to access distributed data and
  services
• Tool for National Applications

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Current GIO Projects

• Space Time Toolkit - 3D visualization tool
• Transitioned from research to an operational
  application for discovering geospatial data
• Services significantly improved
• Working toward a freely downloadable Decision
  Support tool
• OpenGIS Consortium Interoperability Testbed
• Sponsors USGS, FGDC, NGA, Lockheed Martin, Spot
  Image (France), Sun Microsystems
• Kicked off in March
• Common Architecture using W3C standards
• Information Interoperability GML applications
• Technical Baseline Maturation Compliance tests
  for OWS
• Image Handling for DSS
• NASA Synergy Data Pools
• WCS enhancements
• Image processing services
• Fall Deliverable 2004