Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment Phase II

Introduction

This page discuss the plan for an oceans science interoperability experiment phase II.

We very much welcome your participation.

Motivation

We are and we will be sensing the planet as never before. A report from the Institute for the Future says that by 2010 there will be more than 10,000 telemetric devices for every human in the planet. If we focus on the marine domain we could ask the following: "How are we going to share information about these devices to advance marine science and predict and prevent coastal hazards?" We propose the following plan:

• Work with standards organizations to pick the best standards, exercise them and advance them to bring observation system together.
• Work on and end-to-end prototype from the capturing of data from devices to the usage of these data for advance research and improve decision support systems.
• Bring together organizations with SOS experience and international ocean observing systems.
• Provide engineering report (best practices) that helps advance standards use to exchange marine observations

Initiator Organizations

 

The OGC members that are acting as initiators of the Interoperability Experiment are:

• Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  
• Texas A&M University – Academy for Advanced Telecommunications (TAMU)
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
• Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS)

Work with OGC

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is a not for profit voluntary consensus standards organization, with more than 300 member organizations worldwide. Participation in OGC requires you to be part of a working group. A working group can be formed to work on an interoperability experiment, which exercises some of the standards. Fostering of this activity allows to educate the working group about the standards by a practical experience and provides feedback to OGC about the standards being exercised.

In December 2006 we started Oceans IE Phase II, which exercised different OGC services for stationary time series data and provide feedback about Sensor Observation Services implementation. The final report was submitted to OGC.

Topics of Interest  for the End to End Prototype

Phase I of the oceans IE focused on in-situ stationary data from the oceans. Phase II topics of interest are detailed here. They will be discussed in the first week of the experiment,

 

Possible participants include:

• NOAA (IOOS)
• SURA (SCOOP)
• MBARI (PUCK, MMI)
• UNIDATA (GALEON)
• BOEING
• U of Bremen, U Politecnica de Cataluña, dbScale (ESONET: European Sea Floor Observatory Network)
• Northrop Grumman (Pulsenet)
• Compusult, GeoConnections (SENSORBAY)
• NIST
• ASA
• USGS

Milestones

• Jan 2009 - OGC Review Board Approval
• Feb 2009 - Announce Participation ( 30 day )
• Mar 20  2009 -  Kickoff date
• Apr 3 2009 - Scenario drafted and participant roles
• Sep 21 2009 - Demo progress at GEOSS workshop at the EGU Topical Conference on Earth Observation & Water Cycle Science under Global Change (Enschede, The Netherlands). This GEOSS workshop is one in the series of workshops organized by OGC, ISPRS and IEEE.
• Sep 21 2009- Demo progress at Ocean Obs 09 (Italy) - http://www.oceanobs09.net
• Nov 2009 - Submit report to OGC

How to Participate

The Oceans IE Phase II is a continuation of Oceans IE Phase I. We will continue using the same list and this same wiki. More information here.