European Supersites Coordination Workshop: Digital Earth Community's Needs

1. EC Grant Agreement no. 261623 A federated e-Infrastructure for discovery and access of multi-disciplinary data in the GEO-Hazard community Roberto Cossu roberto.cossu@esa.int INFRA-2010-1.2.3 :Virtual Research Communities Duration :May 1, 2010 – April 30, 2012 Total EC funding :2.15 M€

2. Outline Introduction to Digital Earth: Needs of the Digital Earth Communities Related initiatives: GEOSS and ESFRI GENESI-DEC: A multidisciplinary federation for data discovery and access SCIDIP-ES: Data and knowledge preservation European Supersites Coordination Workshop

3. Introduction to Digital Earth Digital Earth is avisionary concept by former US vice president Al Gore in 1998, virtual representation of the Earth, spatially referenced & interconnected with digital knowledge archives. Beijing Declaration on Digital Earth(Beijing Sept 2009 , 6th Int’l Symposium on Digital Earth) "Digital Earth … will be a catalyst in finding solutions to international scientific and societal issues." “… shouldplay a strategic and sustainable rolein addressing such challenges to human society as natural resource depletion, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, environmental degradation, natural disasters response, population explosion, and, in particular, global climate change." European Supersites Coordination Workshop

4. Digital Earth community’s needs European Supersites Coordination Workshop

5. Digital Earth community’s needs • Questions and needs • How to “discover” such complex, distributed and very specific data holdings? • How to access available “data and results” for “user defined processing”? • How to provide a multi-disciplinary environment for “discovery and access to data” European Supersites Coordination Workshop

6. Digital Community: GEO/GEOSS Needs of exploiting the growing potential of Earth observations to support decision making in an increasingly complex and environmentally stressed world. European Supersites Coordination Workshop

7. Digital Community: Environmental ESFRI Frontier environmental research increasingly depends on a wide range of data and advanced capabilities to process and analyse them. European Supersites Coordination Workshop

8. GENESI-DEC Overview Earth Science e-infrastructure connecting Digital Repositories and e-Infrastructures spread all over Europe and worldwide allowing: Easy and fast access to heterogeneous data (airborne, in situ, satellite) to authorized users (following provider’s policies); Effective data and service discovery capabilities through the same interface in a transparent and homogeneous way; On demand processing capabilities; Easy integration of new Digital Repositories thanks to the standardization and scalability Accessibility through user applications via the exposed programming interfaces. Bridging components for security interoperability Services for semantics tools Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations – Digital Earth Communities European Supersites Coordination Workshop 8

9. GENESI-DEC: the full picture Semantic enriched search of heterogeneous data based on geo-spatial and temporal criteria defined by the user Satellite, airborne and in-situ products Satellite data In- Situ data Atmospheric measures from airborne sensors Interferograms computed from satellite data (either on demand computation or discovery of previously generated products) European Supersites Coordination Workshop

10. GENESI-DEC: the full picture Processing services to generate added value products WebProcessingServices, Grid, Cloud computing … Example: Earthquake Van, 23 October 2011 Input: satellite SAR products, auxiliary files, digital elevation models Interferograms, crustal deformation European Supersites Coordination Workshop

11. High level architecture • GENESI-DEC uses a federation of distributed catalogues • 2-steps discovery: • One or more Aggregator Nodes contain the metadata at series collection level • Each federated resources exposes a catalogue containing the metadata at dataset product level • All the GENESI-DEC catalogues can be accessed using OpenSearch protocol • User can directly query the Catalogues using OpenSearch or through Clients, as the Generic GENESI-DEC webportal • Data/products remain at their original location, i.e., where the Data Provider store them; the Catalogues provide the user with the link to directly access the data • Services can be called by the portal (or other clients) for semantically enriched search, WPS execution, workflow chaining, data tagging European Supersites Coordination Workshop

12. Big success story Impacts • GEO-GEOSS • GENESI-DEC technology is contributing to the enhancement of GEOSS (in the GEOWOW EC project, Kick-off November 2011) • GENESI-DEC technology is used by the GEO Supersite initiative to serve the needs of the GeoHazards community • ENVironmental RIs: • ENVRI: Several ESFRI projects have started an EC project (ENVRI) where GENESI-DEC approach is used for discovering, accessing, and sharing cross-community data • Satellite community • ESA Grid Processing on Demand operational environment has adopted OpenSearch standard in its catalogue • ngEO system, which will become ESA’s new Earth Observation data access “portal”, serving new missions including GMES Sentinels will adopt a catalogue based on OpenSearch/OGC • CEOS is considering to use OpenSearch interface for CWIC European Supersites Coordination Workshop

13. Big success story Impacts • GEO-GEOSS • GENESI-DEC technology is contributing to the enhancement of GEOSS (in the GEOWOW EC project, Kick-off November 2011) • GENESI-DEC technology is used by the GEO Supersite initiative to serve the needs of the GeoHazards community • ENVironmental RIs: • ENVRI: Several ESFRI projects have started an EC project (ENVRI) where GENESI-DEC approach is used for discovering, accessing, and sharing cross-community data • Satellite community • ESA Grid Processing on Demand operational environment has adopted OpenSearch standard in its catalogue • ngEO system, which will become ESA’s new Earth Observation data access “portal”, serving new missions including GMES Sentinels will adopt a catalogue based on OpenSearch/OGC • CEOS is considering to use OpenSearch interface for CWIC GENESI-DEC in GEOSS is enabling stakeholders to discover and access an increasing number of data yielding a broad range of societal benefits GENESI-DEC in ENVRI will speed up the construction of several European environmental infrastructures enabling frontier environmental research GENESI-DEC will allow an easier access to satellite data for scientific and operational purposes. European Supersites Coordination Workshop 13

14. Beyond the data Level 0 Level 1 File specs. Desc. Info • The preservation of data (the “bytes”) is useless without the preservation of the knowledge associated with the data (e.g. the “quality”, the process to generate them) • We must: • Ensure and secure the preservation of archived data and associated knowledge for an unlimited time span. • Ensure, enhance and facilitate archived data accessibility. Processor Algorithm User Manual Publications

15. Project: SCIence Data Infrastructure for Preservation – Earth Science (SCIDIP-ES) INFRA-2011-1.2.2 Data infrastructures for e-Science • Project ID:283401 • Project Type: CP-CSA • Start Date: 01.09.2011 • Duration: 36 Months • Website: www.scidip-es.eu • Total Budget: 7,721,082 € • EC Funding: 6,599,992€ • Total funded effort in person/months: 605 • Coordinator: European Space Agency • Contact Person: Mirko Albani (ESA)

16. SCIDIP-ES Objectives • To develop and deploy generic and sustainable digital data preservation services and toolkits. • Validate and use them in the Earth Science domain as a start. • To harmonise data preservation policies and approaches, metadata and ontologies in the Earth Science domain: • Paving the way for the set-up of an harmonized and common approach for the Long Term Preservation of Earth Science Data.

17. From the user’s perspective • Ability of the user to discover earth science data using syntactic and semantic features • Once data has been discovered users have the ability to reach the preservation network/knowledge of the selected data resource • Chance to link different data sets belonging to different ES domains via Rep Info network - tests to be set in that direction

18. http://portal.genesi-dec.eu/ http://www.scidip-es.eu/ http://envri.eu/ http://www.geowow.eu/ THANKS roberto.cossu@esa.int