An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth Observation Scientists Presented by Cameron Kiddle Research Fellow, Grid Research Centre
May 11, 2015
An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth
Observation Scientists
Presented by Cameron Kiddle
Research Fellow, Grid Research Centre
Outline Challenges GeoChronos Demonstration Status Project Participants
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Collaboration Challenges Familiarity with new tools for collaboration Keeping all interested parties in the loop Finding related work and researchers Keeping up to date with current research Collaboration while working in the field
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Data Challenges Acquisition of data
Many different data sources Different regulations/mechanisms for accessing data Lack of automation Finding the right data
Managing data Scattered and unorganized data Inadequate tools for recording/maintaining metadata
Data without metadata is meaningless Lack of suitable metadata standards Validation of metadata
Tracking provenance of data Pre-processing of data
Raw data typically cannot be directly analyzed Significant amount of time spent preparing data for analysis Lack of automation
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Application Challenges Access to software available in research lab
while in field or other locations Installing, configuring and updating software System dependencies of software Awareness and suitability of available software Sharing applications Getting help in using applications Sharing results and getting feedback Co-location of data and applications
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An on-line platform For:
Earth Observation Scientists Facilitating:
Collaboration between scientists Data access, management and sharing Application access, management and sharing
Leveraging: Web 2.0 and social networking technologies Semantic Web technologies Cloud computing technologies
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Collaboration Solutions
Social networking portal Elgg-based (elgg.org)
Social networking services Blogs Tags Media/document sharing Wikis Friends/contacts Groups Discussions Message boards Calendars Status News Feeds
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http://geochronos.org/
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Data Solutions Data Acquisition
Automated acquisition of data from sensors (ground, airborne, satellite) or third party
Data Storage Store, share, browse and
search data i.e., spectral library
Data Processing Automated data workflows
i.e., mosaic, reproject and subset MODIS data
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Application Solutions Interactive Application
Service (IAS) On-line, on-demand access to
scientific applications Share application sessions and
data with other users Access control to applications
Batch Processing Service Batch processing environment
for longer running data processing tasks or simulations
For use directly by individual users or as part of automated data workflows
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Demonstration
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Collaboration - Dashboard
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Collaboration - Activity Feed
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Collaboration - Groups
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IAS - Application Catalogue
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IAS - Storage Space
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IAS - MultiSpec
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Spectral Library - Browse
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Spectral Library - Spectra
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Spectral Library - MetaData
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Spectral Library - Add Metadata
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Spectral Library - File Contents
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Spectral Library - Ancillary Data
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Status Currently in development phase Opened up to a small number of test users
Currently over 50 users from Europe, South America and North America
Test usage of portal at IAI-UofA International Summer School in July 2009
Slowly open up to different communities of users as development progresses
Production portal: mid-late 2010
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Project Team
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Dr. Arturo Sanchez-AzofeifaUniversity of Alberta
Dr. John GamonUniversity of Alberta
Dr. Benoit RivardUniversity of Victoria
Dr. Rob SimmondsUniversity of Calgary
Prinicipal Investigators
Project Coordination Platform Development Domain Scientists
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Virtual Organization
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Contact Information
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Cameron [email protected]://pages.cspc.ucalgary.ca/~kiddlec/
http://geochronos.org/
http://grid.ucalgary.ca/ http://ceos.ualberta.ca/ http://www.cybera.ca/
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