OCIO Functions

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NOAA Satellite and Information Services National
Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information
Services
Environmental ServicesData and Information
Management (ESDIM) Program
Ida Hakkarinen, Howard Diamond, Eric
Davis December 11, 2003
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Agenda

• Background/History
• Program Mission and Themes
• ESDIM Process
• Some ESDIM Projects of Note
• ESDIM Budget History
• NESDIS Approaches for ESDIM

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Background

• Program Established in 1991
• Two catalyst reports
• NOAA Advisory Panel on Climate and Global Change,
  1989
• GAO report, Environmental Data Major Effort
  Needed to Improve NOAA's Data Management and
  Archiving, 1990

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Program Mission

• The Earth System Data and Information Management
  (ESDIM) Program has been instituted to coordinate
  and oversee activities NOAA-wide to improve data
  and information management.
• The ESDIM Program will promote a modern approach
  to systems, operations, and services that will
  meet the needs of NOAAs broad spectrum of users
  in the 1990's and beyond.
• A primary objective of the ESDIM Program is to
  provide coordination and build consensus for data
  and information management throughout NOAA.
• Dr. John A. Knauss
• NOAA Administrator
• September 1992

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Program Themes

• Data Access - Projects that facilitate the users
  ability to discover, retrieve, or manipulate
  data.
• Data Rescue - Projects that contribute to the
  preservation of the environmental record through
  the identification of data at risk, acquisition
  of data sets that extend the data record,
  conversion from non-digital to digital media, and
  cataloging and documenting such data sets.
• Data Quality and Continuity - Existing data
  records are often characterized by instrument- or
  procedurally-induced discontinuities and errors
  that mask these underlying natural variations
  and/or man-made changes. Projects in this theme
  support the improvement in the quality and
  continuity of NOAAs long-term data sets.
• Innovation - Projects that exploit new
  technologies and new software methodologies.
  Innovative, but at a relatively low risk.

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ESDIM Process

• ESDIM Team includes representatives from NOAA
  Line/Program Offices (6 total)
• Two stage review process
• Letters of Intent Information about what will
  be proposed if selected for Proposal stage.
• Team meets to review LOIs, recommends ones for
  full proposal development (typically 2x expected
  budget dollars)
• Proposal Complete information, including
  budget, personnel, and thorough description of
  project.
• Proposals ranked by vote. (Each LO/PO has only
  one vote.) Number of proposals selected
  determined by available budget.

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Some ESDIM Projects of Note

• Data Access and Data Rescue at NCDC, NGDC, and
  NODC
• Digital Shoreline Data Rescue and Access
• Prototype Satellite Active Archive
• West Coast Salmon GIS
• Digital Environmental Sensitivity Index
• Global Ocean Database Project
• PORTS Implementation
• NOAA Web Theme Pages
• GOES and NEXRAD Data Rescue
• NOS Spatial Index and Map Finder
• NWS Climate Data Continuity Project
• Honolulu Laboratory Data Rescue
• NOAAServer (metadata)
• NGI Based, Direct Digital Ingest and Archive of
  WSR-88D Data (CRAFT)
• NOMADS

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ESDIM Program Management
1991 - Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Environmental Information Services (EIS) position
created in NESDIS Environmental Information
Services (EIS) Program Office formed provided
administrative management of program funds for
NOAA grants process to NOAA LOs 2000
reversion to single DAA position in NESDIS CIO
position created Office of the CIO formed
from two existing offices (Information Tech
Management and EIS)
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OCIO Expenditure Profile
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Data Management Funding
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ESDIM Grants 1991-2003
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ESDIM Grants 1991-2003
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ESDIM Grants 1991-2003
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Funding by Program Theme

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ESDIM Funding
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ESDIM Funding
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Grants by NESDIS Center/LO 1991-2002
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NESDIS Approaches for ESDIM

• Identify CLASS-related needs across
  Offices/Centers
• Concentrate NEDIS Letters of Intent in activities
  that support CLASS needs
• Provide informational briefing on CLASS to NOAA
  ESDIM team
• Continue use of internal review board for LOIs
  and Proposals