AIP Telecons 2009

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Telecons of the GEOSS AI Pilot Plenary for 2009 are listed below in reverse chronological order.

Current Telecons are on this page

Information about AIP Working Group telecons is on the AIP WG pages.

Previous TeleconsDateTopics Discussed20091222 AIP-3 CFP Development20091215 AIP-3 CFP Planning20091201 AIP-3 CFP Planning20091110 GEO-VI Plenary prep, AIP Exhibit, AIP-3 Planning20091027 GEO-VI Plenary prep; AIP Exhibit; E2ED&A ER; AIP-3 Planning20091006 GEO-VI Plenary prep: AIP Exhibit, Events of interest to AIP; E2ED&A ER; Data Provider Note20090922 ADC-11 results, GEO VI Plenary planning20090908 Final Telecon of AIP-2, Planning for ADC-11 20090901 AIP-2 ER Status, Usability Testing planned, Google site plan, ADC-11 planning 20090818 AIP-ER Status, AIP-2 Results outreach, GEO Best Practice wiki20090811 AIP-2 ER Status, AIP-2 Results outreach, GEO Best Practice wiki, QA4EO20090728 AIP-2 ER status, AIP-2 Results outreach20090721 AIP-2 ER status, AIP-2 results outreach20090714 AIP-2 ER status, AIP-2 results outreach20090707 AIP-2 Results outreach, QA4EO, Engineering Reports20090630 Model Coordination, Engineering Reports, AIP-2 Results outreach20090616 Model Coordination, Engineering Reports, AIP-2 Results Promotion20090609 Demo video post production, Engineering Reports, Sensor Web Workshop, Koki Iwao20090602 Demo Videos post-production, Engineering Reports, SIR and CSR updates 20090526 Demo videos post-production, Engineering Reports20090519 Results of Demo Capture workshop, Results of Stresa Events, Planning Engineering Reports 20090428 Planning Demo Capture, Preparing for Stresa Events - ADC and UIC20090421 Planning Demo Capture workshop, Planning for Stresa events.20090414 Planning Demo Capture Workshop, SBA and Transverse Scenarios, Deliverables after demo. 20090407 Planning for Demo Capture Workshop, SBA and Transverse Scenarios, Deliverables list.20090331 Demo capture planning, GEO Web Portal demos, Transverse Tech WG reports20090324 GCI Use Case testing, Scenario Status, Planning for Demo Capture20090317 Unit Testing, Transverse Technology WG Updates, GCI Requirements Document20090310 Community WG scenarios, Use cases to components matrix, unit testing, UML modeling status20090303 Unit Test Phase 1, USGS Service Checker, TT WG updates, AIP-2 Models Tailored process 20090224 Unit Test Phase 1, Scenarios and Specialized Use Cases, Enterprise modeling, Community WG updates 20090217 Progress on Unit Test Phase 1, Scenarios and UC Matrix, Technology WG updates20090210 Decision to begin Unit Test Phase 1, Test Log with Blogger, Scenario WG updates.20090203 Unit Testing Phase 1 defintion,Transverse Tech WG updates, focus on use cases20090127 Plan for Testing, Community Scenario updates, GEOSS Registries transition plan.20090113 Use Case list and diagram, TT WG Updates, GEOSS Registries Transition plan, Test and Demo planning 20090106 Consolidated Use Cast list; Community WG updates; welcome Mike Tanner, GEO Sec

Telecons in 2008 are listed separately.

Telecon 22 December 2009

There was a peak of 14 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

AIP-3 CFP Development Schedule

Concept Development with AIP Team - October / November 2010 - done
Scope agreed at GEO Plenary and Committee meetings - Nov. 2010 - done
Outline and Section Editors identified - December 15th - George - done

Section editors identified in CFP Plan

Initial section draft inputs - December 22nd - Section Leads
Initial Draft with initial section inputs - December 23rd - George
Final section inputs - January 15th - Section Leads
Final Draft for Review - January 22nd - George
Final to GEO Secretariat for publication - January 29th - George

CFP Content and Lead editors

AIP-3 CFP with two normative references: Dev Plan and Architecture

Section editors and inputs as in CFP Plan
CFP plan was reviewed and detail and updated. Update has now been posted 22 December version.

CFP Main Document

no comments

AIP Development plan

Josh to provide input on Google sites
Collaboration use case could be used in the development process as well as in scenarios.

AIP Architecture

Enterprise Scenarios are all being developed. Nadine Alameh will lead the integration of the scenario section

AQ by Stefan; Energy by Lionel; DM by Stuart; Biodiversity by Mattia-to be confirmed.
Will Pozzi actively developing water: drought scenario; working with David Arctur, Josh L. Many others involved not on the telecon. Josh says there is interest from India during his meeting last week. Will will make connection to other GEO Water Tasks (Steve Greb? Wisconsin)
Peter to develop scenario for extreme precip event including debris flow and flooding.
Nadine to distribute a template for scenario sections
Added a section to describe Scenarios Actors including human users.

Information Viewpoint

George to contact Ken McDonald

Engineering Use Cases

Semantic Mediation use case: Josh has draft. Comments to include CEOS and WMO registries. Use GEO Taxonomy task developments, Univ. of Tokyo.
Authorization use case developed by Gobe. Comments to make the use case more abstract. Don't presuppose solution at this point.
Click-through use case needs a leader.

Service categories

Proceed with using categories from CFP prep presentation several weeks ago. SIF Taxonomy covers mush wider scope and does not focus on categories for service standards as the categories are used in the AIP CFP.

AIP-3 Kickoff workshop

Date: early March
Location: Europe

Any other business

Happy Holidays!
Next AIP Telecon: 5 January 2010, 1400 UTC

Telecon 15 December 2009

There was a peak of 14 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

AIP-3 CFP Development Schedule

Concept Development with AIP Team - October / November 2010 - done
Scope agreed at GEO Plenary and Committee meetings - Nov. 2010 - done
Outline and Section Editors identified - December 15th - George

CFP Plan

Initial section draft inputs - December 22nd - Section Leads
Initial Draft with initial section inputs - December 23rd - George
Final section inputs - January 15th - Section Leads
Final Draft for Review - January 22nd - George
Final to GEO Secretariat for publication - January 29th - George

CFP in January; Kickoff workshop March

Kickoff location is undecided.

CFP Content

Main elements: Communities of Practice; support ADC way forward on Data; reuse process definition from AIP-2
AIP-3 CFP Plan presentation- this will be the main discussion item on 15 December
this is a continuation of the discussion from 1 December. We will resume the discussion in the CFP plan presentation - AIP Architecture - Information Viewpoint.

Scenario section being led by Nadine - discussion about approach to content
Need to identify key scientific datasets in addition to global datasets
Data Sharing - Authentication

CFP identify requirements. Deployment may involve multiple protocols: OpenID/OAuth, Shibboleth
Suggestion to review OWS Testbed Engineering Report
Need to connect with DSTF before release of CFP.

computational viewpoint of AIP architecture

Consider SIF taxonomy for AIP service taxonomy
Herve suggests reviewing INSPIRE Invoke Services

Tech View

add service testing and monitoring

Telecon 1 December 2009

There was a peak of 17 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

AIP-3 Planning

CFP in January; Kickoff workshop March
Main elements: Communities of Practice; support ADC way forward on Data; reuse process definition from AIP-2
AIP-3 CFP Plan presentation- this will be the main discussion item on 1 December

Any other business

Data Provider perspective - action from ADC meeting - George

Action was initiated by Barb Ryan, WMO
George provided ideas for WIS in presentation form.

Next AIP Telecon: 15 December 2009, 1400 UTC

Telecon 10 November 2009

There was a peak of 16 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

GEO Plenary events of interest to AIP

Data Harmonization and DIAS workshop Nov 11-12
SIF workshop - Nov 12-13 - Steve Browdy
Health workshop - Nov 12-13 - Nadine Alameh
UIC Meeting -
Plenary: AIP to be presented in ADC presentation
Air Quality and GEOSS - 18th. David McCabe leading
ADC Co-chairs only. No full ADC.
Exhibits

Exhibits at GEO Plenary relevant to AIP

OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all AIP-2 videos

AIP/OGC booth to provide space for flyers from all Demos
Demo developers are invited to prepare a one-page flyer and send copies to George

IEEE (Browdy), Energy (Menard), ESRI (Foust), Pikas and Arctic Food Chain (Santoro)

Final AIP flyers - all encouraged to place at their exhibits - send message to AIP about flyers.

Exhibits with which we want to coordinate:

Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA, EC, Japan GEO, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO, IOC/GCI and IEEE
GCI/IOC Testing to be conducted similar to Stresa.

AIP-3 Planning

CFP by January; Kickoff workshop March
Main elements: Communities of Practice; support ADC way forward on Data; reuse process definition from AIP-2

licensing of data may be needed AIP-3
Lionel wants AIP-3 information for a meeting on Nov 23 & 24 to continue the "Energy Scenario" into AIP-3. George to send slides by Nov 20th.
Gobe suggested adding GIGAS coordination with the DM and Bio Scenarios.

Kickoff meeting candidate dates are March 11&12 at ESA -ESRIN, Frascati, Italy - Not confirmed.

Any other business

The End-to-End Discovery and Access Engineering Report from AIP-2 is complete and posted on the AIP-2 ER Page.

Josh has also prepared a summary of the E2ED&A ER

Josh suggested that there be some ad hoc activities of AIP during the OGC meeting in Mt. View, California, the week of December 7th. Two of the AIP-2 ERs have be posted for consideration by the OGC TC. George will work this.
Data Provider perspective - action from ADC meeting - George

Build note from Deployment video and Energy Video. Include a cookbook for providers

Next AIP Telecon: 1 December 2009, 1400 UTC

Telecon 27 October 2009

There was a peak of 19 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

GEO Plenary events of interest to AIP

SIF workshop - Steve Browdy

George to present about AIP
Josh asked for help in presenting IOC results: Josh and Steve offered. Doug to contact off line.

Health workshop:

Nadine leading session on architecture
David McCabe arranging an AQ presentation

Data Harmonization workshop Nov 11-12

Ken McDonald leading the task and workshop

UIC Meeting -

George will seek to coordinate with UIC on AIP-3 Communities of Practice (CoP)

Plenary: AIP to be presented in ADC presentation
Air Quality and GEOSS - 18th. David McCabe leading
ADC Co-chairs only. No full ADC.
Exhibits

Exhibits at GEO Plenary relevant to AIP

OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos

AIP/OGC booth to provide space for flyers from all Demos/Participants

Demo developers are invited to prepare a one-page flyer and send copies to George

ACTION: George to send AIP-2 Flyer and roadmap to AIP Plenary for comment.

Any AIP-2 participant that can be listed on the AIP-2/OGC exhibit attendance list.

2nd Draft of AIP flyer for OGC booth - others encouraged to place at their exhibits

Exhibits with which we will want to coordinate:

Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA, EC, Japan GEO, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO, IOC/GCI and IEEE
GCI/IOC Testing to be conducted similar to Stresa.

Any other business

AIP-2 E2EDA Engineering Report - Josh

Call for comments on Version 1.0 as final

Josh has integrated comments from Marten. Marten and Robert Thomas to do a final review this week.

Synopsis of key recommendations has been prepared and posted by Josh

Data Sharing Task Force (DSTF) seeks inputs to shape the formation of GEOSS data principle implementation.

Comments from AIP are requested later.
Data Licenses that implement the DSTF guidelines; consideration of rights expression languages.(GeoRM)
Evaluation of the need for authentication, authorization, user management in a distributed systems. (Security)

Data Provider perspective - action from ADC meeting - George

Build note from Deployment video and Energy Video. Include a cookbook for providers

AIP-3 Planning - CFP by January; Kickoff workshop March - George

Main elements: Communities of Practice; support ADC way forward on Data; reuse process definition from AIP-2
Draft presentation re AIP-3 reviewed

Make Data Sharing explicit on the summary slide
Add discussion of UserTypes based upon AIP-2, IOC and UIC comments.
Promote mashups on SoA basis - "link-rich" environment.
One page summary of AIP-3 to SBA tasks leads to determine interest - Rob coordinating
Josh commented on the importance of Coastal zones.
Doug suggested to hold the AIP-3 Kickoff on Thurs/Fri of the OGC TC meeting at ESRIN in March 2010.

Next AIP Telecon: 10 November 2009 (1400 UTC, 3 PM Europe) Your Local Time

Change to 10 November versus 3 November.

Telecon 6 October 2009

There was a peak of 22 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

AIP at GEO Plenary

AIP-2 Participants exhibiting:

Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA/Eumetsat, EC, IEEE, Japan GEO, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO
IOC/GCI and IEEE will have exhibits with which we will want to coordinate
Lionel to contact Els LeDrew about coordinating with UIC and IEEE booth.

OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos

AIP/OGC booth to provide space for flyers from all Demos
Demo developers are invited to prepare a one-page flyer and send copies to George

Draft of AIP flyer for OGC booth - others encouraged to place at their exhibits?

Change to "Mine ParisTech"
Various other comments on the draft AIP flyer will be addressed in next version.
Need to re-think second page as the list of components is getting too long.

GEO Plenary events of interest to AIP

Week at a Glance is available.
SIF workshop

Steve Browdy described the workshop that will be held at IEEE HQ
George to present about AIP

Health workshop:

Nadine leading session on architecture
David McCabe arranging an AQ presentation

Data Harmonization workshop Nov 11-12

Ken McDonald leading the task and workshop

Plenary: AIP to be presented in ADC presentation
Air Quality and GEOSS - 18th. David McCabe leading
ADC Co-chairs only. No full ADC.

Any other business

AIP-2 E2EDA Engineering Report - Josh

Call for comments on Version 1.0 as final
Marten H. has comments will send to Josh L.
Doug suggested that recommendations should be highlighted. A snynopsis would be valuable to the IOC Process. Josh said he would develop such a synopsis.

Data Provider perspective - action from ADC meeting - George

Barb Ryan suggested Data Provider note be developed after the Deployment video was presented to the ADC.
Lionel offered that the Energy Video also has a relevant portion; He will send the text script to George for use.
Need cookbook steps for a data provider to deploy a service in GEOSS.

AIP-3 Planning - CFP by January; Kickoff workshop March - George

Main elements: Communities of Practice; support ADC way forward on Data; reuse process definition from AIP-2

AQ4EO Workshop - Rob K.

CEOS developments of QA4EO also now moving to in-situ
Need to develop QA4EO in information architecture more.
Global Data sets

Next AIP Telecon: 27 October 2009; and then weekly until plenary.

Telecon 22 September 2009

There was a peak of 10 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

ADC-11 and Joint Committees, September 14-16, Melbourne Australia

AIP Task Presentations

AIP to Joint Committees - emphasis on SBA Scenarios
AIP to ADC-11 - emphasis on architecture and process

Main messages of AIP presentations

Developed six SBA scenarios
Established reusable SBA to SoA process
Piloted Augmentations to the GCI

Actions

E2EDA Engineering Report - Josh to post an update and make call for last comments.
Data Provider perspective

AIP Presentation focused on Communities of Practice more so than on Data Providers
Discussion about need to tell data providers how and why to link into GEOSS SoA
Consider developing a note applying AIP-2 results from Data Provider perspective, e.g, WMO WIS

AIP way forward: Plenary, AIP-3, Summit

Aim for AIP-3 Call for Participation to be released in January 2010; Kickoff workshop March 2010
No plan for an architecture workshop before CFP.
Need to support Ministerial meeting November 2010.

GEO Plenary

AIP-2 Participants exhibiting: Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA/Eumetsat, EC, IEEE, Japan GEO, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO
IOC/GCI and IEEE will have exhibits with which we will want to coordinate
OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos
Develop AIP-2 roadmap and badge ("GEOSS Registered" "GCI+")? for Exhibits that contain AIP-2 material

Any other business

Next AIP Telecon: 6 October 2009 (no telecon on 29 September)

Telecon 8 September August 2009

There was a peak of 16 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports

Summary status

11 Complete;
1 Remaining

Workflow and Processing ER (Greg) - Declared complete on 8 Sept telecon.
AIP-2 Summary ER (George) - Declared complete on 8 Sept.
End-to-End Discovery and Access ER (Josh) - New version posted. Final version for review needed by 8 Sept.

George will contact Josh to find out the status.

Previously completed ERs:

Use Cases, Polar Ecosystems, Pika Distribution, Renewable Energy, Arctic Food Chain, Air Quality, Testing Services, Disaster Management, Unified Modeling

Discussion of ERs being presented to OGC. George plans to post Summary ER and the Use Case ER to the OGC TC for consideration. Any ER can be posted to OGC by the lead editor or other contributor. George can aid anyone who wants to post an ER to the OGC TC.

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings
Week at a Glance is now available.
Known to be attending: Rob, Larry, George, Doug, (NGC)
AIP topics for ADC-11 : AIP-2 results, Transition to operations, AIP-3 planning

Larry to send a slide regarding the modeling and the INCOSE proposed chagnes to the ISO standard based upon GEOSS AIP-2 work. Larry will present this slide in ADC-11.

AIP-3 ideas:

SBAs to be identified working with the UIC.

AIP-2 SBAs to be considered
new SBAs: Oceans and coastal zones, Hydrology and drought management; Humanitarian response to disaster

Focus on data: global datasets; data quality; licenses and user management; information architecture

Include feature model and feature types.
Observables for EO, including discussion of registries and ontologies.
coordination with the User Requirements Registry regarding observables and other topics relevant to AIP-3.
Lionel Menard commented that data quality is a hot topic during an upcoming IEA meeting to be held in Germany. Lionel will forward information about data quality for solar energy to the AIP mailing list.

Architecture Workshop approach prior to AIP-3 - GEO Plenary in Washington in November would be a good opportunity.

George has recommended convening such a workshop to the ADC Co-chairs. Ivan D. was supportive and was investigating potential space. this has not yet been confirmed.
Doug mentioned the SIF workshop that is being planned for Nov 12-13. Steve Browdy commented that the topics for the SIF workshop concentrate on a CFP for SIF and would not overlap much with an ADC Architecture Workshop. George commented that he is not available on Nov 12-13.
An ADC Architecture Workshop will be proposed in the AIP report to ADC-11 next week.

GEO Plenary

Exhibition Planning

An Exhibitor's Kit sent previously by Mike Williams and forwarded to AIP Plenary. Contains costs and ordering instructructions.

AIP-2 Participants interested - but not committed - in exhibiting

Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA/Eumetsat, EC, IEEE, Japan GEO, NASA/JPL, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO
OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos
Potentials: CIESIN, NGC, CNR, INCOSE, SGT

Develop AIP-2 roadmap and badge ("GEOSS Registered" "GCI+")? for Exhibits that contain AIP-2 material
There was discussion that the AIP-2 results should be presented to the Plenary. George suggested that certainly the ADC report to the plenary will include AIP-2 results. The further discusison was that perhaps more should be presented in plenary with a specific emphasis about the Community of Practice results, e.g,. the scenarios and demonstrations. George will include this in the AIP-2 report to ADC-11.

Any other business

QA4EO WORKSHOP announcement & details

A QA4EO Workshop on Facilitating Implementation to the GEO community will be hosted by TUBITAK-UZAY in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday 29 September - Thursday 01 October 2009.

Disaster Management workshops at UN-SPIDER (Stuart).

Caribbean Flood pilot splinter session, 20 October, Bonn
Third United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop : "From Concepts to Application", in Bonn, Germany, 21 to 23 October 2009

"GEOSS Ready " Session at 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Session organized by Josh Lieberman, Jeff De La Beaujardiere, and Luis Bermudez
22-26 February 2010 Portland, Oregon
Abstracts due by October 15th.

CEOS activities:

Cal/Val in Turkey in September (see QA4EO above), WGISS in Pretoria in September, and SIT.

How to celebrate AIP-2 completion in cyber-space? at GEO Plenary?
Next AIP Telecon: 22 September 2009 (no telecon on 15 September)

Telecon 1 September August 2009

There was a peak of 21 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports Drafts are posted on a Google page

Summary status

9 Complete;
3 Remaining

Disaster Management SBA ER (Didier, Stuart, Hervé) - declared complete.
Unified Modeling ER (Larry) - Declared complete. Larry to post with small changes.
AIP-2 Summary ER (George) - version 0.2 posted on 31 August; comments anticipated; plan to declare complete on 8 Sept.
End-to-End Discovery and Access ER (Josh) - New version posted. Final version for review needed by 8 Sept.
Workflow and Processing ER (Greg) - Final version for review posted just before 1 Sept telecon.
Previously completed ERs: Use Cases, Polar Ecosystems, Pika Distribution, Renewable Energy, Arctic Food Chain, Air Quality, Testing Services
ERs to be used in GIGAS: Biodiversity ERs; Disaster Management ER; Use Case ER, Summary ER

Usability Testing - Greg Ondich

Plan for next round of GEO Web Portal usability testing based upon Portal improvements since Stresa.
Seeking AIP Participants to participate in usability testing.
Testing to be conducted September 8-23rd
Greg will send announcement later this week which we will make sure goes to the AIP Plenary. Steve Browdy plans to distribute to a group he is working with.

Google Site for AIP - Josh

There is a 100mb limit on each site, which seems fixed and which the AIP-2 site has now bumped up against.
Two possibilities:

1) Create another site for follow-on and pre-AIP-3 collaboration.
2) Create a Standard Google Apps account (also free). This would have a space limit of 10gb and include Calendar and Docs under the same domain, but requires an external domain or subdomain to be associated with it (e.g. aip.opengeospatial.org).

In the near-term, Josh will be deleting outdated materials on the Google Site. Others should consider deleting material as well.
In the longer-term, use of a Google Site with a domain name like aip.geoss.org will be considered in the planning for AIP-3. This will be discussed with the GEOSec and considering the resources they offer.

GEOSS Best Practice Registry - AIP contributions to BP wiki

1) An SBA topic from the list below based upon which SBA group is most interested in participating in the wiki- based dialogue. No SBA groups have volunteered so far to take up this effort.
2) "Persistent Exemplar Services" Topic. This is a topic that we have partially developed in AIP but really need wide community discussion and adoption of the approach. GEorge will excerpt the AIP-2 Summary ER material on this topic and post to the BP wiki to start the discussion.

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings
Week at a Glance is now available.

The FGDC website says the meeting is to be in Stresa. Doug N. offered to change this on the FGDC site.

Known to be attending: Rob, Larry, George, (Doug), (NGC)
AIP topics for ADC-11 : AIP-2 results, Transition to operations, AIP-3 planning

Larry to send a slide regarding the modeling and the INCOSE propsed chagnes to the ISO standard based upon GEOSS AIP-2 work. Larry will present this slide in ADC-11.

AIP-3 ideas:

SBAs to be identified working with the UIC. AIP-2 SBAs to be considered along with new SBAs: Oceans and coastal zones, Hydrology and drought management; Humanitarian response to disaster
Focus on data: global datasets; data quality; licenses and user management; information architecture

Information architecture needs to include discussion of feature model and feature types.
Need to discuss observables for EO, including discussion of registries and ontologies.
Doug discussed coordination with the User Requirements Registry regarding observables and other topics relevant to AIP-3.

It was suggested that we should consider the Architecture Workshop approach used prior to AIP-2 (Workshop held in February 2008 at JRC). That we should hold an architecture workshop in advance of the AIP-3 CFP. It was suggested that the GEO Plenary in Washington in November would be a good opportunity. But time is short in regards to reserving space for such a workshop. George will pursue ADC interest in an architecture workshop and then pursue space in Washington in November.

GEO Plenary

Exhibition Planning

An Exhibitor's Kit sent previously by Mike Williams and forwarded to AIP Plenary. Contains costs and ordering instructructions.

AIP-2 Participants interested - but not committed - in exhibiting

Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA/Eumetsat, EC, IEEE, Japan GEO, NASA/JPL, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO
OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos
Potentials: CIESIN, NGC, CNR, INCOSE, SGT

Develop AIP-2 roadmap and badge ("GEOSS Registered" "GCI+")? for Exhibits that contain AIP-2 material

Any other business

AGU ESSI Sessions

Submit your abstract online . The deadline to submit an abstract is 03 September 2009
ESSI Session IN19: Fostering Multi-disciplinary Research via Interoperable Data Systems based on International Geospatial Standards for Earth and Space Sciences

NCEO Annual Science Meeting , Oxford, UK, 2-4 September 2009

Inaugural speaker on the first evening is José Achache, Director of the GEO Secretariat

QA4EO WORKSHOP announcement & details

A QA4EO Workshop on Facilitating Implementation to the GEO community will be hosted by TUBITAK-UZAY in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday 29 September - Thursday 01 October 2009.

Disaster Management workshops at UN-SPIDER (Stuart).

Caribbean Flood pilot splinter session, 20 October, Bonn
Third United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop : "From Concepts to Application", in Bonn, Germany, 21 to 23 October 2009

"GEOSS Ready " Session at 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Session organized by Josh Lieberman, Jeff De La Beaujardiere, and Luis Bermudez
22-26 February 2010 Portland, Oregon
Abstracts due by October 15th.

CEOS activities:

Stuart discussed the upcoming CEOS meetings: Cal/Val in Turkey in September (see QA4EO above), WGISS in Pretoria in September, and SIT. The SIT has 9 theme teams that may be relevant to SBAs planned for AIP-3. The SIT is also the "home" for the CEOS System Engineering Team which is developing a database of observables and their definitions. This is relevant to AIP-3 planning and the User Requirements registry.

How to celebrate AIP-2 completion in cyber-space? at GEO Plenary?
Next AIP Telecon: 8 September 2009 - last telecon of AIP-2

Telecon 18 August 2009

There was a peak of 14 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports Drafts are posted on a Google page

Summary status

5 Complete;
7 Remaining

Air Quality and Health SBA ER (Erin) - This ER was declared complete.
Testing Services ER (Gianni) - final version for review - no report;
Disaster Management SBA ER (Didier) - version sent to WG last week. Didier, Stuart have identified the sections that need editing in order to prepare a final draft. The instructions in blue text need to be deleted.
Unified Modeling ER (Larry) - a final version for review has been posted.
End-to-End Discovery and Access ER (Josh) - preparation of complete draft; inputs from Steve to be posted today; seeking inputs from Marten; Josh plans to post a version this week.
Workflow and Processing ER (Greg) - draft version reviewed by WG?; no report this telecon.
AIP-2 Summary ER (George) - version 0.1 posted; will include conclusions from all ERs as they are complete
Completed ERs: Use Cases, Polar Ecosystems, Pika Distribution, Renewable Energy, (Arctic Food Chain)

AIP-2 Results outreach

AIP-2 Demonstration Videos

Link to the individual videos as MPEG files for download has been posted.

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings

Attending: Rob, Larry, George, (Doug), (NGC)

ADC-11 Topics: AIP-2 results, Transition to operations, AIP-3 planning - to be discussed at a later AIP Plenary telecon. Make this a discussion topic for the next telecon.
AIP-3 ideas:

SBAs to be identified working with the UIC. AIP-2 SBAs to be considered along with new SBAs: Oceans and coastal zones, Hydrology and drought management; Humanitarian response to disaster
Focus on data: global datasets; data quality; licenses and user management; information architecture

Week-at-a-Glance to be posted soon by GEOSec.

Monday Sept 14th - Joint Session of all committees
Tuesday Sept 15th - ADC meeting
Wednesday Sept 16th - ADC meeting
Thursday Sept 18th - Co-chairs
Friday Sept 19th - C4

GEO Plenary - not discussed this week.

Exhibition Planning

An Exhibitor's Kit sent previously by Mike Williams and forwarded to AIP Plenary. Contains costs and ordering instructructions.

AIP-2 Participants interested - but not committed - in exhibiting

Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA/Eumetsat, EC, IEEE, Japan GEO, NASA/JPL, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO
OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos
Potentials: CIESIN, NGC, CNR, INCOSE, SGT

Develop AIP-2 roadmap and badge ("GEOSS Registered" "GCI+")? for Exhibits that contain AIP-2 material
Week at a Glance for GEO Plenary

Workshop on Health: AIP-2 AQ? Sensor Web Malaria (Stuart)?
GEOSS in the Americas Forum, 20 November 2009 - Focus on Coastal Zones

AIP-2 Engineering Reports

To GEOSS Best Practice Registry

Update on Discussions with Jay Pearlman and Ruth Duerr: We concluded that having two topics to start with would be best, i.e., a focused start.

1) An SBA topic from the list below based upon which SBA group is most interested in participating in the wiki- based dialogue.

This was discussed but there was no immediate SBA WG volunteer.

2) "Persistent Exemplar Services" Topic. This is a topic that we have partially developed in AIP but really need wide community discussion and adoption of the approach

This was agreed as a good idea; George will proceed to enter this based upon completion of the Summary ER

Additional approaches to working with the BP Wiki were discussed relative to AIP-3. How can the BP Wiki be used as a part of the AIP-3 development process.
Josh mentioned posting a GEOSS metadata record in BP Wiki in the future
Larry mentioned posting the use case methodology in BP Wiki

Venues external to GEOSS:

OGC Technical Committee: Summary ER; Use Cases;
GIGAS - EC FP7 project: Biodiversity; Disaster Response;

Any other business

AGU ESSI Sessions

Abstract Central is now open — you may submit your abstract online . Details on submission software & policies are below.The deadline to submit an abstract is 03 September 200
ESSI Session IN01 : Earth and Space Science Informatics General Contributions
ESSI Session IN19: Fostering Multi-disciplinary Research via Interoperable Data Systems based on International Geospatial Standards for Earth and Space Sciences

NCEO Annual Science Meeting , Oxford, UK, 2-4 September 2009

conference is open to everyone with an interest in using Earth observation to monitor, diagnose and predict climate and environmental changes.
Inaugural speaker on the first evening is José Achache, Director of the GEO Secretariat
Rob to discuss with José Achache, that the AIP-2 videos could be useful to show GEOSS in action to this and other meetings. Download of individual videos will be provided - see discussion above on videos topic.

QA4EO WORKSHOP announcement & details

A QA4EO Workshop on Facilitating Implementation to the GEO community will be hosted by TUBITAK-UZAY in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday 29 September - Thursday 01 October 2009. The workshop will be chaired by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and is being organised by the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) and GSICS (Global Space-based Inter-calibration System). The main output of the workshop will be an implementation strategy for GEO.
As data and data quality is being discussed as an element of AIP-3, it would be good to have AIP attendance at the workshop.
Discussion that there is a need to link the instrument calibration practices with information technology to allow propagation of the uncertainty into the GEOSS information systems. Specific examples of standards from ISO and OGC regarding information technology for data quality and uncertainty were discussed. George mentioned UncertML and the recent experiments in OWS-6 Testbed. Gobe mentioned the ISO 191XX series of standards. George to send a message summarizing the IT standards relevant to the QA discussions.
Relevant OGC documents

Uncertainty Markup Language (UnCertML )
Image processing
OWS-6 SWE Information Model Engineering Report ; See section 7 "Using UncertML in SWE"

Relevant ISO TC211 documents

ISO 19113:2002 Geographic information -- Quality principles
ISO 19114:2003 Geographic information -- Quality evaluation procedures
ISO project 19157 - Geographic information — Data Quality
ISO project 19158 - Geographic information — Quality assurance of data supply
New Work Item Propsoal for Geographic Imagery Calibration_and_validation

An e-mail of the above references to standards was sent by George to Rob

Disaster Management workshops at UN-SPIDER (Stuart).

Caribbean Flood pilot splinter session, 20 October, Bonn
Third United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop : "From Concepts to Application", in Bonn, Germany, 21 to 23 October 2009

"GEOSS Ready " Session at 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Session organized by Josh Lieberman, Jeff De La Beaujardiere, and Luis Bermudez
22-26 February 2010 Portland, Oregon
Abstracts due by October 15th.

How to celebrate AIP-2 completion in cyber-space? at GEO Plenary?

Meet for a party in 2nd Life.

Next AIP Telecon: 1 September 2009 (No telecon on 25 August 2009)

Telecon 11 August 2009

There was a peak of 11 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports Drafts are posted on a Google page

Arctic Food Chain (Mattia)

A final version with updated diagrams was produced.
Mattia will make two small changes and then post as complete:

Change the title of figure to be "Enterprise viewpoint use cases" to distinguish from other types of use cases.
Reduce the indentation on many of the paragraphs to left justify them.

Testing Services ER (Gianni) - final version for review; no report today
Air Quality and Health SBA ER (Erin)

The final version after WG review has been stable for a week.
This is the last call for any comments from the AIP wide review.
Plan is to declare this ER complete next week.

Disaster Management SBA ER (Didier)

Stuart has sent a version for review to the DM WG
The UML diagrams are being further developed. Larry and Hervé exchanged messages last week. Larry to forward message to Stuart.

Unified Modeling ER (Larry)

Draft version posted as an attachment to the ER Drafts Google page. Send comments to Larry McGovern. Larry to send a message to AIP_Plenary announcing the ER draft.
Larry commented that there remains a need to have a common approach across the various SBA groups. This is similar comment that during the development of the scenarios that each SBA group approached GEOSS with a different concept about the architecture. There is continued need for AIP to promote a common understanding of the GEOSS SoA architecture and for a common process for modeling across SBAs. This will be addressed further in AIP-3.

End-to-End Discovery and Access ER (Josh)

Josh received input from Marten and seeking inputs from Ted and Steve.
Plan for a complete draft this week.

Workflow and Processing ER (Greg) - draft version reviewed by WG?; no report this telecon.
AIP-2 Summary ER (George) - version 0.1 posted; will include conclusions from all ERs as they are complete
Completed ERs: Use Cases, Polar Ecosystems, Pika Distribution, Renewable Energy

AIP-2 Results outreach

AIP-2 Demonstration Videos

The GEO homepage has a link directly to the AIP main page. The AIP main page will be updated to highlight the videos in a summary section at the top of the page.
George will investigate providing a link to the individual videos as MPEG files for download.

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings

Attending: Rob, Larry, George

ADC-11 Topics: AIP-2 results, Transition to operations, AIP-3 planning - to be discussed at a later AIP Plenary telecon.
Week-at-a-Glance to be posted soon.

Monday Sept 14th - Joint Session of all committees
Tuesday Sept 15th - ADC meeting
Wednesday Sept 16th - ADC meeting

GEO Plenary - not discussed this week.

Exhibition Planning

An Exhibitor's Kit sent previously by Mike Williams and forwarded to AIP Plenary. Contains costs and ordering instructructions.

AIP-2 Participants interested - but not committed - in exhibiting

Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA/Eumetsat, EC, IEEE, Japan GEO, NASA/JPL, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO
OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos
Potentials: CIESIN, NGC, CNR, INCOSE, SGT

Develop AIP-2 roadmap and badge ("GEOSS Registered" "GCI+")? for Exhibits that contain AIP-2 material
Week at a Glance for GEO Plenary

Workshop on Health: AIP-2 AQ? Sensor Web Malaria (Stuart)?
GEOSS in the Americas Forum, 20 November 2009 - Focus on Coastal Zones

AIP-2 Engineering Reports

To GEOSS Best Practice Registry

Discussion with Ruth Duerr: advise not to post as single documents but rather as individual items directly in the wiki
Examples of items from one document posted as three separate items:

AIP-2 team discussed how to approach this.

The approach of dissecting the current ERs so as to put all content directly into the wiki was not seen as value added. The context provided by having a complete document would be lost. Any possible benefit of direct editing of the document contents in the wiki are outweighed by the effort to dissect and the loss of context.
The group did see value in listing a series of BP topics in the wiki and linking to the ERs. AIP participants would make the summary entries into the wiki for the various BP topics.
There was discussion of how the BP topics might relate to the set of ERs. For the SBA ERs it was felt that they are a singular BP and that there would be one BP topic for each SBA ER. For other ERs (e.g., Unified Model ER and Summary ER) there could be several BP Topics.
George to provide a summary of the discussion to Ruth along with an initial list of BP topics and the associated ERs.

Venues external to GEOSS: - not discussed this week.

OGC Technical Committee
GIGAS - EC FP7 project
AGU session including ERs? Also EGU ESSI?

Any other business

AGU ESSI Sessions

Abstract Central is now open — you may submit your abstract online . Details on submission software & policies are below.The deadline to submit an abstract is 03 September 200
ESSI Session IN01 : Earth and Space Science Informatics General Contributions
ESSI Session IN19: Fostering Multi-disciplinary Research via Interoperable Data Systems based on International Geospatial Standards for Earth and Space Sciences

NCEO Annual Science Meeting , Oxford, UK, 2-4 September 2009

conference is open to everyone with an interest in using Earth observation to monitor, diagnose and predict climate and environmental changes.
Inaugural speaker on the first evening is José Achache, Director of the GEO Secretariat
Rob to discuss with José Achache, that the AIP-2 videos could be useful to show GEOSS in action to this and other meetings. Download of individual videos will be provided - see discussion above on videos topic.

QA4EO WORKSHOP announcement & details

A QA4EO Workshop on Facilitating Implementation to the GEO community will be hosted by TUBITAK-UZAY in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday 29 September - Thursday 01 October 2009. The workshop will be chaired by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and is being organised by the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) and GSICS (Global Space-based Inter-calibration System). The main output of the workshop will be an implementation strategy for GEO.
As data and data quality is being discussed as an element of AIP-3, it would be good to have AIP attendance at the workshop.
Discussion that there is a need to link the instrument calibration practices with information technology to allow propagation of the uncertainty into the GEOSS information systems. Specific examples of standards from ISO and OGC regarding information technology for data quality and uncertainty were discussed. George mentioned UncertML and the recent experiments in OWS-6 Testbed. Gobe mentioned the ISO 191XX series of standards. George to send a message summarizing the IT standards relevant to the QA discussions.
Relevant OGC documents

Uncertainty Markup Language (UnCertML )
Image processing
OWS-6 SWE Information Model Engineering Report ; See section 7 "Using UncertML in SWE"

Relevant ISO TC211 documents

ISO 19113:2002 Geographic information -- Quality principles
ISO 19114:2003 Geographic information -- Quality evaluation procedures
ISO project 19157 - Geographic information — Data Quality
ISO project 19158 - Geographic information — Quality assurance of data supply
New Work Item Propsoal for Geographic Imagery Calibration_and_validation

Disaster Management workshops at UN-SPIDER (Stuart).

Caribbean Flood pilot splinter session, 20 October, Bonn
Third United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop : "From Concepts to Application", in Bonn, Germany, 21 to 23 October 2009

"GEOSS Ready " Session at 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Session organized by Josh Lieberman, Jeff De La Beaujardiere, and Luis Bermudez
22-26 February 2010 Portland, Oregon
Abstracts due by October 15th.

How to celebrate AIP-2 completion in cyber-space? at GEO Plenary?
Next AIP Telecon: 18 August 2009

Telecon 28 July 2009

There was a peak of 16 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports Drafts are posted on a Google page

Renewable Energy SBA ER (Lionel) -

Diagram from Larry to be included; Annex of TT Use Case summary to be included
Final Version for comment posted after telecon for final review includes these changes.

Air Quality and Health SBA ER (Erin)

New version as Word Document now posted. this version has been reviewed by WG
Some formating and the Final Review version can be posted.

Disaster Management SBA ER (Didier)

Version posted on 21 July. File name implies an older date.
Hervé to make some edits and include UML diagrams
Stuart to circulate to WG

Testing Services ER (Gianni)

George previously sent comments; No report on status

Unified Modeling ER (Larry)

All SBAs to be completed this week.
George to send a modified Scenario ER template for Larry's use.
Publish unified report next week

End-to-End Discovery and Access ER (Josh)

Josh developing draft this week. Hervé inputs to be included.
Seeking inputs from MArten and Doug on Clearinghouse and Registration.

Workflow and Processing ER (Greg) -

Greg posted draft this week. Working in the Workflow WG to edit.

AIP-2 Summary ER (George) - version 0.1 posted; will include conclusions from all ERs as they are complete
Completed ERs: Use Cases,

These were declared done: Polar Ecosystems, Pika Distribution,
Mattia to include diagrams from Larry then Arctic Food Chain ER is done.

AIP-2 Results outreach

AIP-2 Demonstration Videos

Page has been announced via press release .
AIP videos page to be linked in GEO homepage when GEOsec IT guru (Rik and Mike Tanner to talk)

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings
ADC-11 Topics: AIP-2 results, Transition to operations, AIP-3 planning

GEO Plenary

Exhibition Planning

An Exhibitor's Kit sent previously by Mike Williams and forwarded to AIP Plenary. Contains costs and ordering instructructions.

AIP-2 Participants interested - but not committed - in exhibiting

Compusult, ERDAS, ESRI, ESA/Eumetsat, EC, IEEE, Japan GEO, NASA/JPL, OGC/AIP-2, US GEO
OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos
Potentials: CIESIN, NGC, CNR, INCOSE, SGT

Develop AIP-2 roadmap and badge ("GEOSS Registered" "GCI+")? for Exhibits that contain AIP-2 material
Week at a Glance for GEO Plenary
Workshop on Health: AIP-2 AQ? Sensor Web Malaria (Stuart)?

AIP-2 Engineering Reports

To GEOSS Best Practice Registry

Discussion with Ruth Duerr: advise not to post as single documents but rather as individual items directly in the wiki
Examples of items from one document posted as three separate items:

AIP-2 team to discuss how to approach this.

Venues external to GEOSS:

OGC Technical Committee
GIGAS - EC FP7 project
AGU session including ERs? Also EGU ESSI?

Any other business

AGU ESSI Sessions

Abstract Central is now open — you may submit your abstract online . Details on submission software & policies are below.The deadline to submit an abstract is 03 September 200
ESSI Session IN01 : Earth and Space Science Informatics General Contributions
ESSI Session IN19: Fostering Multi-disciplinary Research via Interoperable Data Systems based on International Geospatial Standards for Earth and Space Sciences

Coastal Zone - GEOSS Cafe

Wed 22 July 2-4:30pm - How Can GEOSS Connect Coastal Zone Observations with Coastal Zone Concerns?
Little understanding of GEOSS and Services. Focus on data sets.

QA4EO WORKSHOP announcement & details

A QA4EO Workshop on Facilitating Implementation to the GEO community will be hosted by TUBITAK-UZAY in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday 29 September - Thursday 01 October 2009. The workshop will be chaired by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and is being organised by the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) and GSICS (Global Space-based Inter-calibration System). The main output of the workshop will be an implementation strategy for GEO.
As data and data quality is being discussed as an element of AIP-3, it would be good to have AIP attendance at the workshop.

Upcoming Disaster Management workshops at UN-SPider (Stuart).
How to celebrate AIP-2 completion in cyber-space? at GEO Plenary?
Next AIP Telecon: 11 August 2009 (There will not be a telecon on 4 August 2009)

Telecon 21 July 2009

There was a peak of 17 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports Drafts are posted on a Google page

Polar Ecosystems Biodiversity SBA ER (Doug) - updated/final posted

Annex of use cases may be of interest to other SBA ERs. Last call for comments before declared complete.

Pika Distribution Biodiversity SBA ER (Mattia) - Final version for review.

will add Use case annex. Last call for comments before declared complete.

Arctic Food Chain Biodiversity SBA ER (Mattia) -Final version for review.

will add use case annex. Last call for comments before declared complete.

Renewable Energy SBA ER (Lionel) - draft posted, UML diagrams sent by Larry.

ER was updated and posted this week. Will add use case annex.
Hervé and Lionel to talk about specialized use cases.
Perhaps ready for final review next week.

Air Quality and Health SBA ER (Erin) - UML diagrams received, maybe finish next week

Updated this week. Will add use case annex. Moving to Word version. Draft posted next week.

Disaster Management SBA ER (Didier)

Updates have been made. Working with Hervé. New version posted.

Testing Services ER (Gianni) - George sent comments

No report

Unified Modeling ER (Larry) - support SBA ERs, then publish unified report next week

No report

End-to-End Discovery and Access ER (Josh) - draft this week.

Martin mentioned that a telecon was held about a week ago.
Hervé is interested but did not know about telecon
Inputs are due to Josh this week.

Workflow and Processing ER (Greg) - draft this week

Eugene will contact Greg to help advance the document.

AIP-2 Summary ER (George) - version 0.1 posted; will include conclusions from all ERs as they are complete
Completed ERs: Use Cases,

AIP-2 Results outreach

AIP-2 Demonstration Videos

Page has been announced via press release .
AIP videos page to be linked in GEO homepage when GEOsec IT guru (Rik) returns from holiday.

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings
ADC-11 Topics: AIP-2 results, Transition to operations, AIP-3 planning

GEO Plenary

Exhibition Planning

An Exhibitor's Kit sent previously by Mike Williams and forwarded to AIP Plenary. Contains costs and ordering instructructions.
Exhibitor signup by 15 July 2009 - action from GEOSec Invitation.

AIP-2 Participants interested - but not committed - in exhibiting

OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos
CIESIN, NGC, CNR, ESRI, Compusult, JAXA/Japan, ERDAS,
Presume: ESA, US(USGS, EPA)
(others?) IEEE, INCOSE
Develop AIP-2 roadmap and badge ("GEOSS Registered")? for Exhibits that contain AIP-2 material

Week at a Glance for GEO Plenary

AIP-2 Engineering Reports

To GEOSS Best Practice Registry: George sent a message to Ruth Duerr about 3 weeks ago to coordinate registering ERs in BP wiki. No response to date.

Venues external to GEOSS:

OGC Technical Committee
GIGAS - EC FP7 project
AGU session including ERs? Also EGU ESSI?
(others?)

Any other business

IGARSS'09

GEOSS Special Session, Monday July 12th: Ingo Simonis and Stuart Frye each presenting

Stuart provided a summary of the session. About 50 people attended. Stuart presented for Ingo who was able to attend due to illness.

QA4EO session

Coastal Zone - GEOSS Cafe

Wed 22 July 2-4:30pm - How Can GEOSS Connect Coastal Zone Observations with Coastal Zone Concerns?

QA4EO WORKSHOP announcement & details

A QA4EO Workshop on Facilitating Implementation to the GEO community will be hosted by TUBITAK-UZAY in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday 29 September - Thursday 01 October 2009. The workshop will be chaired by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and is being organised by the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) and GSICS (Global Space-based Inter-calibration System). The main output of the workshop will be an implementation strategy for GEO.
As data and data quality is being discussed as an element of AIP-3, it would be good to have AIP attendance at the workshop.

Upcoming Disaster Management workshops at UN-SPider discussed by Stuart. Stuart also described the progress on coordination of 42 nations on flood pilot.
How to celebrate AIP-2 completion in cyber-space? at GEO Plenary?
Next AIP Telecon: 28 July 2009

Telecon 14 July 2009

There was a peak of 18 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports Drafts are posted on a Google page

Use Cases ER (Nadine) - version 1.0 posted. Last call for comments
Pika Distribution Biodiversity SBA ER (Mattia) - UML diagrams received, finish in next few days.
Renewable Energy SBA ER (Lionel) - draft posted, UML diagrams sent by Larry.
Air Quality and Health SBA ER (Erin) - UML diagrams received, maybe finish next week
Arctic Food Chain Biodiversity SBA ER (Mattia) -advanced draft, need UML, post in next few days
Polar Ecosystems Biodiversity SBA ER (Doug) - updated/final posted
Disaster Management SBA ER (Didier) - no status
Testing Services ER (Gianni) - George sent comments
Unified Modeling ER (Larry) - support SBA ERs, then publish unified report next week
End-to-End Discovery and Access ER (Josh) - draft this week.
Workflow and Processing ER (Greg) - draft this week
AIP-2 Summary ER (George) - version 0.1 posted; to include conclusions from all ERs

AIP-2 Results outreach

AIP-2 Demonstration Videos

Page has been announced via press release .
AIP videos page to be linked in GEO homepage when GEOsec IT guru (Rik) returns from holiday.

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings
ADC-11 Topics: AIP-2 results, Transition to operations, AIP-3 planning

GEO Plenary

Exhibition Planning

An Exhibitor's Kit sent last week by Mike Williams and fowared to AIP Plenary. Contains costs and ordering instructructions.
Exhibitor signup by 15 July 2009 - action from GEOSec Invitation.

AIP-2 Participants interested - but not committed - in exhibiting

OGC booth will have AIP-2 summary and all videos
CIESIN, NGC, CNR, ESRI, Compusult, JAXA/Japan
Presume: ESA, US(USGS, EPA)
(others?)
Develop AIP-2 roadmap and badge? for Exhibits that contain AIP-2 material

Week at a Glance for GEO Plenary

AIP-2 Engineering Reports

To GEOSS Best Practice Registry

Venues external to GEOSS:

OGC Technical Committee
GIGAS - EC FP7 project
AGU session including ERs?
(others?)

Any other business

ESIP Summer Meeting - July 7-10

A number of workshops and sessions which may be of interest to a number of AIP-2 participants
The ESIP Air Quality Workgroup, which led the AQ and Health effort in AIP2, is holding a 1.5 day workshop.

The AQ workshop sessions are described here

Discusion of "common infrastructure" including GCI
Session included participants via remote communications including video, audio and presentations. David McCabe commented that this was valuable but requires a dedicated resoruce to coordinate and operate the facility.

Coastal Zone - GEOSS Cafe

Wed 22 July 2-4:30pm - How Can GEOSS Connect Coastal Zone Observations with Coastal Zone Concerns?

QA4EO WORKSHOP announcement & details

Telecon of QA4EO and CSR participants led to plan for adding QA4EO self-decoration as a step in the registration process.
A QA4EO Workshop on Facilitating Implementation to the GEO community will be hosted by TUBITAK-UZAY in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday 29 September - Thursday 01 October 2009. The workshop will be chaired by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and is being organised by the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) and GSICS (Global Space-based Inter-calibration System). The main output of the workshop will be an implementation strategy for GEO.
As data and data quality is being discussed as an element of AIP-3, it would be good to have AIP attendance at the workshop.

How to celebrate AIP-2 completion in cyber-space? at GEO Plenary?

Also considering to have telecons in AIP-3 at 1300 UTC and 2400+/- UTC, i.e., during the work hours of Asia and Australia

Next AIP Telecon: 21 July 2009

Telecon 7 July 2009

There was a peak of 22 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

AIP-2 Results outreach

AIP-2 Demonstration Videos

Page has been announced via press release .
AIP videos page to be linked in GEO homepage when GEOsec IT guru (Rik) returns from holiday.

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings
ADC-11 Topics: AIP-2 results, Transition to operations, AIP-3 planning
AIP-3 Planning: Coordination with DA-09-01a "QA4EO framework for dataset quality control." Pascal Lecomte (CEOS WGCV Chair, from ESA) and Rob Koopman, GEO Secretariat

QA4EO has been completed and endorsed by CEOS in a direct response to GEO task DA-06-02 - GEOSS Quality Assurance Strategy (now DA-09-01a).
Pascal and Rob provided an over veiw of AQ4EO.
AQ4EO FRAMEWORK & GUIDELINES

The latest versions of the QA4EO documentation are now free to download from the QA4EO website.
A short QA4EO "user" guide has been produced to provide background into QA4EO and how one would start implementing it.
These are living documents and so any feedback is always welcomed and should be sent via the QA4EO secretariat at

.

Near term action: Discuss making QA "self-decoration" part of the CSR registration process. Steve Browdy, Rob and Pascal to exchange e-mails supporting this during a SIF telecon later this week.
Mid-term action: Discuss QA4EO in ADC meetings in September. AIP attendance invited for QA4EO workshop in September in Turkey - details in AOB listed below.
Longer-term: consider AQ4EO as an element of the data topics in AIP-3.

GEO Plenary

GEO Secretariat update on Exhibition -

Rob Koopman mentioned that a team from GEOSec had recently toured the DC location.
An Exhibitor's Kit will be announced later this week. This will include the fees associated with exhibiting.
Industry participation similar to Capetown is anticipated, i.e., commercial companies participating in AIP can participate in the Exhibit.
Exhibitor signup by 15 July 2009 - action from GEOSec Invitation.

AIP-2 Participants interested - but not committed - in exhibiting

OGC, CIESIN, NGC,
(others?)

Develop AIP-2 roadmap for Exhibition; similar to AIP-1.
Plenary Invitation to GEO Principals;
Week at a Glance for GEO Plenary

AIP-2 Engineering Reports

To GEOSS Best Practice Registry
Venues external to GEOSS:

OGC Technical Committee
GIGAS - EC FP7 project
(others?)

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports

Drafts are posted on a Google page
Status of ERs

AIP-2 Summary ER (George) - version 0.1 available. Outline is stable. Most parts are completed with accurate information. Some areas need additional information.

Uncertain what to do with Persistent Exemplars section. There are three criteria for PE. 269 services meet the first two critiera. The third criteria regards the service host supporting high avaialability and performance. As this is a difficult criteria to assess, it may be left as a AIP-3 assessment perhaps involving the service checker and some form of load testing. Thanks to Gobe for the suggestion.

Renewable Energy SBA ER (Lionel) - draft
Air Quality and Health SBA ER (Erin) - draft

Erin indicated that a draft was posted today. She will contact Larry for the diagrams.
Clarification that the Scenarios should be as planned. The Demo section discusses only what was accomplished.
Final delivery will need to be in Word version.

Pika Distribution Biodiversity SBA ER (Mattia) - draft
Arctic Food Chain Biodiversity SBA ER (Mattia)
Polar Ecosystems Biodiversity SBA ER (Doug) -
Disaster Management SBA ER (Didier)

Stuart indicated that they may have a draft on Monday.

Unified Modeling ER (Larry)
Use Cases ER (Nadine) - draft

Nadine indicated that review by workflow and CCRM WGs is needed of their use cases.
Version 1.0 is anticipated next week.

End-to-End Discovery and Access ER (Josh) - outline

Hervé indicated that he has provide input to Josh. Josh was not on the call.

Workflow and Processing ER (Greg)
Testing Services ER (Gianni) - advanced draft

Any other business

How to celebrate AIP-2 completion in cyber-space? at GEO Plenary?
The GEO Call for Participation for Earth Observation for Decision Support has closed -

134 responses have been received and are currently being reviewed.
Many interesting proposals.

ESIP Summer Meeting - July 7-10

A number of workshops and sessions which may be of interest to a number of AIP-2 participants
The ESIP Air Quality Workgroup, which led the AQ and Health effort in AIP2, is holding a 1.5 day workshop.

One topic of interest will be the GEOSS Common Infrastructure and how the AQ community will build the infrastructure to interface with it - very closely tied in with the AQ work in AIP2.
The AQ workshop sessions are described here
The entire AQ session will be remotely accessible via GoToMeeting. David McCabe will send out information about how to participate in that.

IGARSS'09

GEOSS Special Session, Monday July 12th: Ingo Simonis and Stuart Frye each presenting

Coastal Zone - GEOSS Cafe

Wed 22 July 2-4:30pm - How Can GEOSS Connect Coastal Zone Observations with Coastal Zone Concerns?

QA4EO WORKSHOP announcement & details

A QA4EO Workshop on Facilitating Implementation to the GEO community will be hosted by TUBITAK-UZAY in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday 29 September - Thursday 01 October 2009. The workshop will be chaired by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and is being organised by the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) and GSICS (Global Space-based Inter-calibration System). The main output of the workshop will be an implementation strategy for GEO.
As data and data quality is being discussed as an element of AIP-3, it would be good to have AIP attendance at the workshop.

Next AIP Telecon: 21 July 2009

Telecon 30 June 2009

There was a peak of 15 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

AIP-2 Modeling coordination

Results of Telecon on Friday, 19 June, 1400 UTC
Summary ER section 3.2 draft was discussed. This section describes the SBA to SoA process. The process was developed through out AIP-2 focusing on Scenarios and Use Cases. The discussions in these two telecons has advanced the process definition and coordiantion of the various ERs. Further work to best utilize the Unified Modeling will need to be continued in AIP-3.

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports

Schedule for ERs will need to be updated with ERs now aiming to be final in July.
Use of Google sites for posting ERs
ER Drafts announced to the Plenary for review. Reviewed in the Telecon by the PoC Editor

CC&Bio Use Scenario (Pikas Distribution) Scenario ER

Draft posted by Mattia
Models need to be updated. Mattia to send e-mail to Larry.

Renewable Energy Scenario ER

Drafte posted by Lionel
Lionel to send message to Larry requesting the latest models.
Hervé to review the specialized use cases in Section 5.

Use Cases ER - Nadine

Draft posted by Nadine
Greg to review workflow section.
Gianni to review Testing section
Hervé and Josh to review CCRM sections.

Testing Services -

Draft posted by Gianni. Use Case section to be moved to be section 3. Need to add title page.
A revision was posted shortly after the telecon. This is an advanced draft and Gianni aims to complete this by next week.

Others are in work

AQ and Health draft outline - David McCabe
Arctic Food chain - to be available as draft next week - Mattia
Polar Ecosystems - status unknown.
Disaster Management - Herve's draft needs to be advanced by Stuart and Didier
Discovery and Access - Josh has an outline and will conduct a poll to choose a telecon before next Tuesday.
Workflow - Greg will work with GMU and may have a telecon this Friday

AIP-2 Results promotion

Demo Videos

Draft page is ready for review
Mike Tanner recommends that the AIP-2 page be linked to GEO homepage when ready
Press Release to announce page tomorrow.

Engineering Reports

To GEOSS Best Practice Registry
Venues external to GEOSS:

OGC Technical Committee

ADC-11 and UIC in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings
Transition to operations

GEO Plenary

Invitation to GEO Principals; Exhibitor signup by 15 July 2009

OGC members may contact George Percivall

Develop AIP-2 roadmap for Exhibition; similar to AIP-1.
GEO Secretariat update on Exhibition

Any other business

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
GSDI-11 and INSPIRE Conferences, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009
OGC Technical Committee Meetings, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 22-26, 2009

GEO Plenary invitation to the OGC Earth System Sciences ESS DWG , Tuesday at 1 pm

The GEO Call for Participation for Earth Observation for Decision Support has closed - what are the results?
Coastal Zone - GEOSS Cafe

Wed 7/22 2-4:30pm - How Can GEOSS Connect Coastal Zone Observations with Coastal Zone Concerns?

ESIP Summer Meeting

AQ Cluster

IGARSS'09

GEOSS Special Session, Monday July 12th: Ingo Simonis and Stuart Frye each presenting

Next AIP Telecon: 7 July 2009

Telecon 16 June 2009

There was a peak of 10 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussion

Registries update - Steve Browdy

Version 2 of the registries is now live.
A previously announced functionality of the CSR is not currently available in the live version

CSR association between service records is currently available only in the test version CSR
The association allows linking between service records, and typing the records of three types

1. Related to; 2. Has member; 3. Preceeded by

Next version of the Registries is planned to go live in about 4 weeks.

The service-to-service association may or may not go live before then.

AIP-2 Modeling coordination

Telecon held on 12 June
Coordination is incremental progress

Review of Tailored approach from March '09 needs to be updated - revision will be in Summary ER

Diagram showing flow of resuable process
ERD of model components - with controlled vocabulary

Use Case ER:

will reference specialized Use cases in SBA ERs
Refinement of the terms "Actor" and "role" will be done.

Current actors: Service Consumer and Service Producer
This also involves the use of these terms in the Scenario ERs.
Consider adding third role that insures multiple services work together for a community
Roles to be specialized using the roles from IOC TF Con Ops
Agenda item for next Model coordination Telecon

System Model ER

Comparison of Scenarios with Activity Diagrams
Refinement based upon telecon

SBA ERs

Include both Service Consumer and Service Provider perspectives
Currently the scenarios have not fully expressed requirements for all of the architecture, i.e., scenarios do not map to all use cases.
Specialized use cases are specializing by: 1) changing generalized types into community types; and 2) by adding more detail.
Stuart is seeking any specific comments on the DM scenarios.

Next Model Coordination Telecon on Friday, 19 June, 1400 UTC

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports

Schedule for ERs

Draft by June 12th
Final by June 29th

All Scope statements and editors have been identified
Process for handling ERs during development

Each ER POC Editor to create a page in Google Sites

The ER Page to contain the development history for the ER. Page to list the various ER versions as they are developed.
For example here is the page for the E2E Discovery and Access ER

Add link to the "Tasks" portion of the WG page for the ER

See the "Work Items" section of the CCRM WG page for a link to the ER

Engineering Reports summary page will link to the ER Pages.

For example here is the E2E D&A link in the list of ERs

POC Editor to announce to the AIP Plenary mailing list when a draft is ready for review

Announcement should link to the page on the Google Sites for the ER.

Drafts are in process for these ERs:

Use Case ER - Nadine

Gathering material from the web pages and editing for uniformity into the word document
Need to refine and add actors: eg., Clearinghouse is an actor; clarify which actor initiates the use case
Testing and Workflow Use Cases will be simplified as each of these has a seperate ER
Refinement of Diagrams.

Pika ER and Food Chain ER - Mattia

Aiming to post a draft by the end of the week.

Disaster Management ER

Stuart will work with the draft that Hervé produced.
Didier is avaiable one hour this week for review - according to Hervé

Renewable Energy

Lionel aims to issue a draft by Friday

E2E D&A ER

Hervé developed a rough draft.
Josh to issue an annotated outline version today

(no other POC Editors were online to report status on ER)

AIP-2 Results promotion

Demo Videos

All input materials are ready; creation of web page is underway
Will be similar to AIP-1 Video demo web page
Mike Tanner recommends that the AIP-2 page be linked to GEO homepage when ready

Engineering Reports

To GEOSS Best Practice Registry
To OGC Technical Committee
Other venues?

Renewable energy version to be transmitted to International Energy Agency by Lionel.
Disaster Management ER is to be sent to several organizations by Stuart.
Each of the Scenario SBAs have a user community that could receive the ER for information.

ADC-11 in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings
Transition to operations
Need to also plan for AIP-2 results to be presented to the UIC.

GEO Plenary

Invitation to GEO Principals; Exhibitor signup by 15 July 2009

OGC members may contact George Percivall

Develop AIP-2 roadmap for Exhibition; similar to AIP-1.
Rob Koopman reported that the GEO Secretariat staff is visiting the Plenary site next week. Rob offered to contact the staff organizing the Exhibition to alert them of the AIP-2 interest in a roadmap similar to the Capetown exhibition for AIP-1. Rob offered to report back to a future AIP-2 telecon about the planning for the Exhibits.

Presentation of AIP-2 results to various venues

Any other business

The Call for Participation for Earth Observation for Decision Support closed yesterday.

Rob offered to report on the results of the CFP at a future telecon.

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule

Model Coordination Telecon, Friday 19 June, 1400 UTC

GSDI-11 and INSPIRE Conferences, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009

Session 3.10 -Technical Issues Open Roundtable: D. Nebert, and G Yetman, Wednesday,4 pm
Session 5.5 - Implementing GEOSS Data Sharing Principles - Thursday at 4 pm
Session 7.5 - Complementary Activities among GEOSS, OGC and GSDI - Friday at 2 pm

OGC Technical Committee Meetings, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 22-26, 2009

GEO Plenary invitation to the OGC Earth System Sciences ESS DWG , Tuesday at 1 pm
AIP-2 ERs to Architecture WG,Wednesday,

Coastal Zone - GEOSS Cafe

Wed 7/22 2-4:30pm - How Can GEOSS Connect Coastal Zone Observations with Coastal Zone Concerns?

ESIP Summer Meeting

AQ Cluster

IGARSS'09

GEOSS Special Session, Monday July 12th: Ingo Simonis and Stuart Frye each presenting

Next AIP Telecon: 30 June 2009

No telecon on 23 June

Telecon 9 June 2009

There was a peak of 16 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussion

Welcome to Koki Iwao

Member of the GEO Secretariat Staff
Senior Scientific Expert, Architecture and Data Committee. Seconded by Japan.

Demo Videos Post-production

Workspace for status of videos
Status of producing the AIP-2 Video DVD and Web page

All inputs delivered except for the "bridge" material from George

Will be similar to AIP-1 Video demo web page
Uploading to GEO Channel on YouTube - message sent to Mike Tanner

Koki took action to ask Mike

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan

Report of workshop from Ingo Simonis

Ingo was impressed with the number of services that have been set up for sensors and model predictions in Asia.
There has been little reporting of the implementations and the needs identified by the implementers back to the standards bodies, e.g., OGC SWE. This means that in some cases the implementations have been tweaked beyond compliance to the standard in order to meet the particular needs.
There is a clear need for a naming authority, e.g., the URIs in specifications and named phenomena. OGC now has a naming authority which has been created since the standards were first approved. Need registries for phenomena so that identical phenonmena use the same term.
There are several relevant GEO activities:

GEOSS registry to hold multiple registries for terms
GEOSS task for ontology mapping
Registry and sensors work in AIP-3

A report and the presentations will be posted by Ingo

Next Workshop plans

There will be a workshop at the APAN conference in Sydney in February 2010, organized by CSIRO
The next GEOSS workshop should be hosted in North or South America. Previous workshops were held in Africa, Europe and Asia.

Ingo is seeking a host for the next workshop in NA or SA
Timeframe: April, May or June 2010
Facility for about 50 people.

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports

Schedule for ERs

Draft by June 12th
Final by June 29th

Scope and editors need to be defined for these ERs:

System Modeling ER - will use scope from draft ER
Workflow and Processing -

Greg will send scope; adding Brian Fox as contributor
It would be good to have ESA SSE participation

Draft is ready for review for these ERs:

AQ draft to be posted early next week
DM needs Didier who has been on assignment
Use Cases - Nadine moving material from website to word
E2E D&A -

Results of last weeks telecon posted
an outline now exists and is in work
Emphasis on WMS as E2E example

System Modeling -

draft posted to Enterprise model page on Google sites.
Need to coordinate system model ER with use case ER and E2E D&A ER
Telecon to be held on Friday to coordinate.

Any other business

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
GSDI-11 and INSPIRE Conferences, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009

Session 5.5 - Implementing GEOSS Data Sharing Principles - Thursday at 4 pm
Session 7.5 - Complementary Activities among GEOSS, OGC and GSDI - Friday at 2 pm
Session 3.10 -Technical Issues Open Roundtable: D. Nebert, and G Yetman

OGC Technical Committee Meetings, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 22-26, 2009

GEO Plenary invitation to the OGC Earth System Sciences ESS DWG , Tuesday at 1 pm
AIP-2 ERs to Architecture WG,Thursday, 8 to 9 am

IGARSS'09

GEOSS Special Session, Monday July 12th: Ingo Simonis and Stuart Frye each presenting

ADC-11 in September, Melbourne Australia

Invitation to GEO Committee meetings

GEO Plenary

Invitation to GEO Principals; Exhibitor signup by 15 July 2009
Develop AIP-2 roadmap for Exhibition; similar to AIP-1.

Next AIP Telecon: 16 June 2009

Telecon 2 June 2009

There was a peak of 20 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussion

Demo Videos Post-production

Workspace for status of videos
Status of producing the AIP-2 Video DVD and Web page

ESA Geo Portal video
GMU Landsat ecosystem video
Web page inputs - George

Will be similar to AIP-1 Video demo web page
Uploading to GEO Channel on YouTube - message sent to Mike Tanner

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports

AIP-2 Summary ER

Review of the Annotated outline of the Summary ER

Scope Statements and Editors are being identified
Telecon for "end-to-end" discovery ER to be held on 3 June

Schedule for ERs

Draft by June 12th
Final by June 29th

Any other business

ADC-10 presentations are now posted.
AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
GSDI-11 and INSPIRE Conferences, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009

Session 5.5 - Implementing GEOSS Data Sharing Principles - Thursday at 4 pm
Session 7.5 - Complementary Activities among GEOSS, OGC and GSDI - Friday at 2 pm

OGC Technical Committee Meetings, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 22-26, 2009

GEO Plenary invitation to the OGC Earth System Sciences ESS DWG , Tuesday at 1 pm
AIP-2 ERs to Architecture WG,Thursday, 8 to 9 am

IGARSS'09

GEOSS Special Session, Monday July 12th: Ingo Simonis and Stuart Frye each presenting

Request for information on GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop in Japan last month
ADC-11 in September, Melbourne Australia
SIR and CSR update - Steve Browdy and Yuqi

Both registries were update within the last week.
Now when registering a service at CSR, it is possible to seamlessly enter a new Interoperability Arrangement into the SIR without going to the SIR.
Next functionality will be notification of SRI changes to CSR registered component owners.

GEOSS system-wide capability with Interoperability Arrangements

Jeff dlB began this discussion by commenting that when registering a standard in the SIR, the user should be informed of the GEOSS capabilities supported for that standard.
For example more capability is provided WMS as an interoperability arrangement than for a generic WSDL described service. this was a particular example in AIP-2.
Linking standards in SIR to entries in the Bset Practices registry will help answer this question: "Where is it recorded what capabilities are offered by GEOSS services for the various interoperability arrangements?"
This will be partially accomplished by posting the AIP-2 ERs to Best Practice Registry. Also should be discussed for AIP-3.

Next AIP Telecon: 9 June 2009

Telecon 26 May 2009

There was a peak of 26 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Demo Video Post-production

Workspace for status of videos

All videos except Landsat video from GMU are posted. George needs to record the voice over for the GMU video.
Mark is reviewing the posted videos and may ask for additional inputs, e.g, 640x480 is too low resolution
Mark's job can be done best if he has all of the project files from Camtesia or other tool. The project files should be uploaded to the ftp site. The project files are desire even if you have posted the .mp4 or .mov formats.
DM and Biodiversity videos are too be reposted this week.

Status of producing the AIP-2 Video DVD and Web page

Will be similar to AIP-1 Video demo web page
ACTION: George to send Mark Buehler the "glue" ppts and voice over text - no response yet from Mike.

Uploading to GEO Channel on YouTube - response from Mike Tanner

Plan for GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports

Editors need to be identified for all ERs.
Scope Statements: several scope paragraphs are still needed from the POC Editor. These paragraphs will be posted on the ER page and will appear in the introduction of the ER docs. The scope statements will be used this week and next too coordinate the planning of content of the ERs.
Template: posted and reviewed. Several of the Scenario ER editors commented that the template will work for them.
Schedule: This schedule was discussed and decided:

Draft of the ER by June 12th
Final version of the ER by June 29th

Status of GEOSS AIP-2 Engineering Reports

AIP-2 Summary ER

Summary ER will include the User types from the IOC document. Other ERs will need to use this taxonomy of users and may need to expand and comment on it.

SBA Scenarios ERs

System Modeling ER

Larry is posting the models on Enterprise Model page .
More work is needed on the information viewpoint. Information modelling and global datasets is anticipated to be an emphasis of AIP-3.

Use Cases ER
Transverse Technology ERs

End-to-End Discovery ER

The title and scope of this ER is not yet decided. Josh will develop a draft scope statement and send to Hervé. Josh plans for a telecon on 3 June to discuss this ER. This is the timeslot from the alternating Portal WG and CCRM WG telecons.

Workflow and Processing ER
Testing Services ER

Any other business

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
GSDI-11 and INSPIRE Conferences, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009
OGC Technical Committee Meetings, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 22-26, 2009
Next AIP Telecon: 2 June 2009

Telecon 19 May 2009

There was a peak of 23 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Demo Capture Workshop Results

AIP-2 Capture workshop was conducted on May 4-5. Several of the videos were presented at the ADC and UIC meetings later in the week.
Demo developers are uploading their videos to the ftp site. The status of videos is recorded on this AIP-2 Demo Video Workspace.
ACTION: Demo video developers who have yet to post their videos to the ftp site, should do so this week.
OGC is developing plans for producing the AIP-2 Video DVD and Web page
During the Stresa week of meetings, Mike Tanner of the GEOSec discussed creating a YouTube channel. The AIP-2 Videos may be relevant to that channel.
ACTION: George to send message to Mike Tanner regarding GEOSS YouTube channel - message has been sent as of 20 May

Results of other Events in Stresa relevant to AIP-2

Thursday: ADC-10 meeting, (presentation to ADC )

Demo videos presented: ESA GWP, ESRI GWP, and Data Provider by Hervé

Friday: ADC/UIC joint meeting, (presentation to UIC/ADC ).

Demo videos presented:

Discussions at ADC and UIC meetings relevant to AIP

This section was organized using Stresa Discussions summary provided by Nadine.
Multiplicity of clearinghouses

There was general agreement that we should move to a single clearinghouse for the operational architecture. Josh commented that this was naive.

End-to-end discovery

GEO Web Portal Content Management. Discussion of seperating the web page content management and search from the clearinghouse search of metadata records.
Discussion of the different types of users, e.g., "person on the street," "science user," "decision maker". Need to reveiw the user categories from the IOC Operations Concept document.
Need for additional clients, e.g., view clients - Bind is tougher than Find

How to make the searches “better”

Doug Nebert presented excerpts of his presentation to the ADC.

The contents of the CSR have doubled during AIP-2.
CSR has been updated and the content has been reviewed and updated.
A CSR review board is proposed - similar to the SIF for the SIR.
Currently there are many web sites in the CSR whereas the CSR should contain components and services with links to web pages that describe them.
Doug commented that the Content management of the GEO Web Portals should be minimized. There were questions why he believes that. Doug commented that content in the GWPs will undercut the registration in CSR. Doug does encourage community portals to contain web pages. George commented that the GWP web pages are valuable resource that we should provide a index for.
Doug described and demo the Google search index for searching GEOSS web pages.
Josh commented that Google search is predicated on a specific information model, namely web pages and words associated via links. Google site map does provide a good resource for those types of searches.
Clearinghouse search performance was described as poor as the hetorgeneity of the data and models implemented by the community catalogues. This is an area of work that should continue to be refined in last stages of AIP-2.

A summary of the discussion of the web page and metadata record search needs for GEOSS not presented in the telecon:

Two approaches to search need to be developed for two different use cases:
1. "Person on the street: Barb's mom" -> Google-or-like-search -> web pages -> portals (GWP and community)
2. "Science and Decision support user" -> Clearinghouse fielded search -> data set and service metadata records -> community catalogues
All components need to be registered: portals, catalogues, clearinghouse, google-like search engine.

A seperate telecon will be organized for this discussion: Wednesday, 20 May, 9:00 EDT
Need to finish AIP-2 and identify issues for AIP-3.

Usability testing results

Report by the Test Team is planned to be available at the end of May.

Who are the GEOSS users? Need to also include IT users

Deliverables after demo capture; to be completed in June.

Demo video web page - OGC - see above
Persistent Exemplars nomination- this will be included in the Summary ER
Engineering Reports (some ERs to become Best Practices to GEO, OGC, others)

A page has been created for the AIP-2 ERs.
ACTION: AIP Participants need to consider how they want to contribute to the ERs. Consistent with GEO Task planning, the lead editor for an ER is title the Point of Contact Editor. Those volunteering to be PoC Editors should send a scope paragraph describing the ER to George before next Tuesday.
ACTION: George to provide template for ERs
Summary report - George will be the PoC Editor.
UML Models - Larry McGovern will be the PoC Editor.

Larry plans to post the models as early as this weekend
Plans are to post to the web, as a Word Doc and a pdf doc.

Scenarios - one ER per scenario; include Specialized use cases

It was discussed that the scenario SBA ERs should be seperate documents not a single ER as the audience for each SBA document will be different
Several, but not all of PoC Editors for the SBA ERs have been noted on the AIP-2 ERs page

Use Cases - one ER for all use cases
Transverse Tech WGs

End-to-end discovery? CCRM, P&C,
Workflow and Processing - this name needs to be updated.
Test Facility - Gianni Sotis
(Other TT WGs?)

Any other business

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Add GSDI-11 and INSPIRE conferences for discussion next week.
Add OGC TC for discussion next week.
Next AIP Telecon: 26 May 2009

Telecon 28 April 2009

There was a peak of 25 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Demo Capture Workshop Logistics

GEO meetings, 3-8 May, Stresa, Italy; colocated with ISRSE

GEO ADC meeting, May 7-8 - Committee meetings invitation
Registration fees will not be required if you only intend attending the GEO committee meetings.
Transportation logistics are posted by the conference organizers.

Lake Maggiore Arriving & Departing via ALIBUS - TripAdvisor

AIP-2 Capture workshop May 4-5. Beginning 9 am May 4th

If you are available: gather in the lobby of the Hotel Regina at 7:00 PM Sunday

Demo capture plan updated 28 April including specifications for the following

Encoding format for video delivery
Software for demo capture
3-5 minute videos outline
Powerpoint template, e.g., for wiring diagrams

Events in Stresa relevant to AIP-2

Saturday:

UIC - previously David McCabe mentioned that AIP may be invited to participate. This is not confirmed.

Sunday:

AIP-2 Social gathering: lobby of the Hotel Regina at 7:00 PM Sunday
User and Architecture Workshop- Forestry

Monday to Friday: GCI IOC Usability Testing
Monday:

AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop
ISRSE Session 10.3 (2 to 3:30 pm) on SDI catalogues, etc.

Tuesday:

AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop
EO for Decision Support - GEO CFP Information session 1200 to 1300

Wednesday:

AQ GEOSS Session in ISRSE: 14:00 – 15:30
ESIP WMS Demo Session 17:30-9:00 in the Oceania Room

Thursday: ADC-10 meeting, 1100-1730 at the Palazzo dei Congressi in the Atlantic 2 Room
Friday: ADC/UIC joint meeting, 0800-1030 at the Palazzo dei Congressi in the Pacific Room.

Workspace for sharing / exchanging views before Stresa here:

All demo developers should post their scripts and videos on this page.
ACTION: each demo leader to send George 1 or 2 slide summary of your demonstration by May 1st.

These slides will be included in the presentation that will be made to the ADC and UIC. Not all videos will be shown to the committees.
Also Ron Lowther to send slides about approach using portlets.

Scenario demonstrations - examples to show?

Renewable Energy: Facility Planner - Lionel Menard

Lionel reviewed script page and resource page on google sites.
Not all components will be ready in time to prepare a demo for next week.
Demo will be delivered in time for on-line and DVD versions

AQ & Health: Wildfire & Smoke: Rudy Husar, David McCabe

Stefan reviewed the script page
The main demo will be a smoke event in Southern California; other locations will be shown in brief version.

Biodiversity: Pika Distribution: Stefano Nativi

MAttia Santoro anticipates posting a first version in one or two days
Have received slides from domain scientist for inclusion in the video.

Biodiversity: Arctic Food Chain: Stefano Nativi

Mattia reported that a dataset is still needed.
Also waiting for an introduction from the domain scientist.

Biodiversity: Polar Ecosystems: (Doug Nebert)

Doug reported that access to Landsat archive is under development
Demo will show search and processing.
Demo will be developed in developers lab and posted to google sites.

Disaster Management: Flood - Stuart Frye with D. Giacobbo, H. Caumont, R. Lowther

Disasters scenario updated. Hervé created a column for tracking of the Components/Services registrations:
Stuart reported that progress was good.
Stuart reported that the Caribbean flood topic will be discussed during a UIC meeting on Tuesday

Transverse demonstrations - scripts developed?

GEO Web Portal - Compusult - Robert Thomas

Robert reported that the script is being developed.
Will show searching of multiple clearinghosues and access to resources.

GEO Web Portal - ESA/FAO - Francesca Casale, Gianni Sotis

Gianni reported that an 8 minute video has been devleoped and that this will now be edited to a shorter version.

GEO Web Portal - ESRI – Marten Hogeweg

Marten reported that the demonstration is under development.

Workflow authoring and publishing - Brian Falk

No report

Access service: deploy, test and register: Hervé Caumont

Hervé: script for the Data Access demo capture here
Experimenting with some Camtasia functions (zooming, callouts), mp4 export, and will upload a video snippet.

Status of CSR and SIR

Doug Nebert reported that he an Yuqi have reviewed the content of the CSR in order to improve the quality of some entries.
Steve Browdy also reported similar to Doug that the Version 2 of SIR and CSR will be on-line late this week or early next week.

Deliverables after demo capture: to be completed in June.

Demo web page - OGC

Integration of all videos into web page and DVD will begin on May 15th.

Persistent Exemplars nomination
Engineering Reports (some ERs to become Best Practices to GEO, OGC, others)

Summary report - George, Herve, Nadine, Josh, others.
UML Models - Larry McGovern and INCOSE team

Finished Enterprise and Information views of all SBA scenarios. Starting on View 3. Will try to complete in two weeks from now.

Scenarios - one ER per scenario; include Specialized use cases
Use Cases - one ER for all use cases
Transverse Tech WGs

Workflow and Processing - Greg, Eugene, others
Test Facility - Gianni Sotis
(Other TT WGs?)

Any other business

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 19 May 2009 (No AIP-2 Plenary telecons on May 5 or May 12)

Telecon 21 April 2009

There was a peak of 22 participants on the WebEx for this session.

Discussions

Interchange matrix

Need to finish populating it based on the scenarios
Disaster and AQ are finalizing things (testing, registration, etc) and will update the matrix accordingly
Portals connecting to different clearinghouses:

One of the ESA issues connecting to the ESRI clearinghouse is closed now
Compusult intends to show connections to other clearinghouses in demo video

Scripts

Disaster: trying to make the script flexible in order to accommodate components being added or not working by the Stresa meeting. Will have a first draft online after the Friday telecon
AQ: Draft script is on the community WG webpage.
It looks like we’ll have draft scripts from the community WGs by next week’s telecon. In the meantime, the groups are active in setting up, registering and testing their components.
Compusult Geoportal: Focusing on biodiversity scenario but will also show support for the other scenarios
ESA Geoportal: Will have a draft video by the end of the week (in addition to detailed instructions for users to do the sequence of steps themselves)
Workflow: Will have a draft video by the end of this week using resources from the different scenarios
Access: Has the different parts of the videos showing deployment of Burma WCS, testing using ESA SSE and registration. Will also incorporate the USGS EDC service checker (for the WMS)

Demo coordination

Herve will setup a page on the google site for ongoing demo video work
To minimize size of files uploaded, use MPEG4 with H264 encoding, for web-ready, compact, demo captures (could also be uploaded to YouTube and linked to google site)

End-to-End telecon

Recommendations to ADC

Need to better define audience for common infrastructure
Recommend baseline behavior supported by each geoportal and clearinghouse
Provide standardized way for easy visualization and browsing

Continue to explore end-to-end concept
Note from Dave McCabe: the UIC is recognizing that they need to further flush out the definition and categorization of users of the portals (and GEOSS)
Knowing how users are likely to use GEOSS affects how component providers choose to register their resources
Joint meeting between ADC and UIC on Friday May 8 to discuss some of those issues

Other business

UML models: Larry provided George with slides to be used at Stresa. Eng & Tech viewpoints are scheduled for development in the next phase of AIP
Persistent Exemplars: discussion about process for identifying such components; operational issues, etc
Presentations at the EGU: Stefano Nativi on SIF, George Percivall on AIP-2
Telecons this week: Disaster and AQ on Friday. Check calendar.

Telecon 14 April 2009

There was a peak of 24 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Status of component testing

NOAA WAF harvest issue empty
RE WAF issues still need to be resolved (unregistered resources still show up in clearinghouse)
Can anyone add clients to the matrix? ( SIREN, ArcExplorer were mentioned as additional clients)
E2E telecon: raised a number of interesting issues that need to be communicated to the ADC regarding GEOSS users and expectations, different audiences and needs, support for functionality other than web mapping, end to end metainformation, etc. A second E2E telecon will be scheduled this week.
Doug is also experimenting with google custom search engine for all of geoss resources (currently including all registries and one clearinghouse).

Scenario demonstrations

RE: Working on the final portlet.
AQ: in addition to video, planning to have available a set of steps/tutorial for users to be able to replicate/modify the scenario steps
Polar Ecosystems: workflow being demonstrated against highly available datasets (issues with other datasets that take 2-3 weeks to get back)
Disaster management: a telecon is planned every Friday to ensure that the services/data are accessible by at least one client

Transverse demonstrations

Geo Web Portal- Compusult: script to include how geoportal is used to support various WGs
Geo Web Portal- ESA: script to capture steps followed to use portal in various situations
Geo Web Portal- ESRI: may incorporate EDC service checker
Workflow: script for authoring and publishing workflows (connecting to GeoBrain and ESA infrastructure)
Access WG: focus on deployment and registration of services (e.g. Spotimage WCS). Considering connection to testing facility and EDC service checker. Consider demo using EDC service checker on a WMS and SSE test facility on Spotimage WCS.

Deliverables after demo capture

UML models update
Workflow WG working on ER
Test Facility ER draft available on google site
Specialized use cases will be captured in the scenarios and referenced in the use cases ER

Other business

GEOSS CSR update: Currently reviewing the entries in the components and services registry. Owners will be notified of recommended changes to their registrations (e.g. Missing/mismatched classification, URLs not working, etc)
Telecons this week: Disaster Management on Friday, E2E part II on Thursday
Next AIP telecon 21 April 2009

Telecon 7 April 2009

There was a peak of 26 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Demo Capture Logistics

Capture workshop May 4-5. Beginning 9 am May 4th

If you are available: gather in the lobby of the Hotel Regina at 7:00 PM Sunday
Register in ISRSE conference: one day or a full week registrations available.

Demo capture plan updated 7 April

Guidelines for demo capture
Powerpoint template - use GEO design
Wiring diagram template

GEO ADC meetings, 3-8 May, Stresa, Italy; colocated with ISRSE

AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop, May 4-5
GEO ADC meeting, May 7-8
Usability testing, Greg Ondich, The Scientific Consulting Group, Inc. - supporting EPA

Greg provided a summary of the GCI user assesment that will occur during ISRSE. Greg's group is supporting Gary Foley, EPA and GIOC Task Force co-chair.
A questionaiiree and phmphlet are under development. Greg is talking to AIP pariticipants for input. Several sample queries will be developed - working with Nadine Alameh.
It is anticipated that 60-80 interviews will be conducted in Stresa.
Question was asked about what happens to the results? Greg indicated that he will provide them to Gary Foley for the GIOC TF to consider.

Committee meetings invitation
Transportation logistics are posted by the conference organizers. ALIBUS?

Scenario demonstrations (Persons listed in parentheses will be in Stresa)

AQ & Heath: Wildfire & Smoke: Rudy Husar and David McCabe

Stefan Falke provided a status on the scenario development.
Two emphasis: 1) registration and discovery, 2) visualization of the smoke
Need to get old records deleted from the clearinghouse. Stefan to send e-mail to Marten (ESRI). These records were added prior to the community catalog was established

Biodiversity: Pika Distribution: Stefano Nativi

Mattia Santoro provided an update.
The components have been added to the interchange matrix
WCS and WPS with open modeler.
Greg Yetman offered a polar view client. Mattia and Greg to coordinate.

Biodiversity: Arctic Food Chain: Stefano Nativi

Mattia Santoro provided an update.
WFS for arctic data.
Need for climatological data for arctic. Action: Percivall to inquire about other data sources.

Biodiversity: Polar Ecosystems: (Doug Nebert)

No Update

Disaster Management: Flood - Stuart Frye with D. Giacobbo, H. Caumont, R. Lowther

Didier provided an update.
Scenario is well developed.
Need an SPS Client.
Hervé is testing several clients against WMS and WCS servers from Spotimage and JAXA Clieints include the GWPs, Titan and Gaia
Disaster charter coordination is continuing. No results just yet.
SIREN Community Portal will be part of this scenario.
Disasters Telecon on Friday April 10th. Message to be sent to AIP Plenary

Renewable Energy: Facility Planner - Lionel Menard

Lionel provided an update
Further discussion is needed about how to register and use portlets.
The discovery issue is the topic of a message in the CCRM mailing list (Lionel can you provide a pointer to the message?)

Transverse demonstration

GEO Web Portal - Compusult - Robert Thomas

On vacation. Previously confirmed.

GEO Web Portal - ESA/FAO - Francesca Casale

Not present

GEO Web Portal - ESRI – Marten Hogeweg

Demonstration will focus on discovery and use of ESRI GWP.

Decision Support User discovery and use of clients -

Discovery of clients will be considered in RE and AQ scenarios. RE is registering and reusing portlets as interoperability approach.

Add a demonstration of Workflow authoring and publication. - Greg Yetman

Deliverables after demo capture

Demo web page - OGC
Persistent Exemplars nomination
Engineering Report plans

Question if these ERs would be posted to both GEO BP and OGC? Consensus of telecon was that ERs should be posted to at least those two venues
Audience for the different ERs will be different need to identify the audience for each.

Engineering Reports,

Summary report - George, Herve, Nadine, Josh, others.
UML Models - Larry McGovern and INCOSE team

Team is working on Information View. SBA Use cases do not provide sufficient information to identify all data types required. More interaction with SBA teams will have to be done by our team. Many SBA use cases do not provide sufficient information to complete activity diagrams. We are addressing specific questions to SBA teams on this.

Scenarios - one ER per scenario?

Include steps of use cases; matrix for the scenario mapping to the use cases
Include specialize use case detail - e.g., specific queries.

Use Cases - one for all use cases

Include Use case matrix, use case diagram, details of the generalize use cases.
Include discussion of the process of going from generalized use cases to specific use cases.

Transverse Tech WGs

Workflow and Processing - Greg, Eugene, others
Test Facility already has a draft ER. Need to include in this list.
(Other TT WGs?)

Any other business

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule

Disasters WG on Friday
End-to-End Telecon - Josh

Move to Thursday. Announce to Plenary.
Marten to set up a webcast facility.

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 14 April 2009 focusing on preparing for screen captures for ADC meeting

Telecon 31 March 2009

There was a peak of 26 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Demo Capture planning

Capture workshop May 4-5. Beginning 9 am May 4th -

Demo Capture workshop participants plan to gather in the lobby of the Hotel Regina at 7:00 PM Sunday

See the updated demo capture plan

detailed agenda for workshop

Marten noted that there is a GEOSS session in the conference on Tuesday - this was added to the capture workshop agenda

Guidelines for demo capture
Check out AIP-1 videos for an idea of what is expected at http://www.ogcnetwork.net/AIPdemos

Listing of the scenarios that are anticipated in the capture workshop

Discussion of client registration and discovery

See Nadine's e-mail to plenar
Clients need to be registered in the Component and Service Registry (CSR)
Nadine did an analysis on the discovery of clients in the CSR.

See the summary on this page
Note that many clients could not be found in the CSR

Not sure what categories to register clients
Creating a A demo capture video on "Discovering Decision Support clients" was discussed but not confirmed.
P&C Telecon on 1 April will discuss this topic

GEO ADC meetings, 3-8 May, Stresa, Italy; colocated with ISRSE

AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop, May 4-5
GEO ADC meeting, May 7-8
Committee meetings invitation
There are several ways to get from Malpensa to Stresa. The ALIBUS looks like it might be a good one - must make a reservation in advance. Transportation logistics are posted by the conference organizers.

Finishing Unit Testing

Reconfirming IOC Use Cases

GEOSS Common Infrastructure Components
Use cases: 01, 03, and 04 showing registration and discovery
UC05 and UC06 limited to WMS for portals.
Preparing for Stresa

Identifying Persistent Exemplars

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on Use Cases for Testing

Access Services: products, sensors, models

Hervé Caumont provided comments by text.
Worked on Alert services. Found this reference material on alerts
We have to support the NOAA SOS inclusion to Disasters scenario

Workflow and Processing

Greg Yetman reported for the WG
The WG had a telecon within the last week. They discussed preparing the Engineering Report (ER) for workflow and how workflow will be invovled in the scenarios.

Portals and Application Clients

See discussion above about registration and discovery of clients

Test Facility

No report was given

Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata

Josh Lieberman provided a report for the WG
Discussing Use Case 10 with Steve Browdy to maintain connection with SIF.
CSR and SIR upgrade has been delayed.
Discussion of variations in data and service metadata and linking between them. The approaches are being fine tuned.
Identifiers for components and services in the CSR could be of two types

GEOSS identifiers that are created within the domain of the CRS
User provided identifiers that are globally uniques. The provider then maintains the identifiers but they are unique in GEOSS
The User provided identifiers was discussed as the preferred approach.

Erin Robinsons work on ISO 19115 as used in GEOSS was discussed. Lola Olson asked if ISO 19115 had superseded FGDC metadata standard. The approaches in AIP have focused on ISO 19115 as it is an international standard. It was noted that 19115 is being profiled in several communities, e.g, North American profile, INSPIRE. Erin's work on application of 19115 to GEOSS context is a great help and outcome of AIP-2.
Josh commented that there are several places in the portals where there is implicit knowledge about GEOSS that could be made explict. This could be an ontology. This is future work for the new Ontology Task and AIP-3.

AIP-2 Development Models: RM-ODP and UML

Earlier in the telecon Larry McGovern coordinated with the AQ group on developing models.
Scenario model status - Enterprise viewpoint

Renewable Energy: developed
Disasters: developed
Air Quality: developed
Bio&CC: Pika and Polar scenarios developed . Landsat scenario is next.

Information and Computational viewpoints: future
Outputs form the modeling tool suitable for web pages.

Telecon 24 March 2009

There was a peak of 23 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Finishing Unit Testing

Reconfirming IOC Use Cases

It is important that we restablish that the GEOSS Common Infrasturcture is still at or better than its IOC capability. This can be done by the Unit Testing in AIP-2 using the GCI Components and the AIP-2 Use Cases
Use cases: 01, 03, and 04 will be used to show registration and discovery functionality

Each of the three GEO Web Portals will need to be tested against all of the three GEOSS Clearinghouses.

UC05 and UC06 will be used to confirm access functionality.

The requirement for GEO Web Portals is only to access WMS. It is okay if a GEO Web Portal can access other types of services. If a Geo Web Portal access SPS then that is great. But there is no requirement that the GEO Web Portals access all services listed in the Use Case 6.
Use of services beyond WMS is encouraged for the scenarios. It is anticipated that community portals and application clients might be needed to access the full list of services in UC05.

Preparing for Stresa

By the time of the Stresa meetings, May 4th, the GCI component testing needs to be complete and we should be ready to capture demonstrations of the portals as we did for AIP-1.
Robert Thomas indicated that Compusult can support this schedule.
Gianni Sotis indicated that ESA can support this schedule.
Marten Hogeweg indicated that ESRI can support this schedule.

Josh Lieberman will make this topic the main thing on the Wednesday telecon. The telecon will be a joint Portals WG and CCRM WG telecon.

The Interchange Matrix will be focused on the unit testing associated with UC01, UC02, UC04, UC05, UC06.
The communication of test discrepancies will be review

Identifying Persistent Exemplars

A deliverable from AIP-2 is to be a list of components that meet the criteria of Persistent Exemplar. A spot has been created to record the identified Persistent Exemplars.
Hervé, Nadine and Josh are supporting the identification of peristant exemplar components through their respective WG pages: access, clients, ccrm
Persistent exemplars must be registered in the CSR. The list of persistent exemplars will be a subset of CSR registered comopnents that meeting the criteria.

Community WG updates: Ready to begin Scenario Testing?

Renewable Energy

Lionel Menard provide an update for the WG
The RE Portal is registered in the CSR. Services to support the RE Scenario will be registered over the next few weeks.

CIESIN WMS is being used
DEMIS WMS is being used - about 20 layers are available.

Working with several java portlets
Scenario is stable to support the testing.

Air Quality and Health

Stefan Falke provide an update for the WG
The architecture continues to mature. The dashed readlines on the architecture figure are being worked to make the them solid line, i.e., they are ready.
They are concentrating on providing data through WCS but alos looking at using WMS to make the data more widely available.

A WAF will be deployed for each of the WCS and WMS

Scenario is stable to support the testing.

Disasters

Stuart Frye provide an update for the WG

The Flooding Scenario is being refined.
Services are being brough on-line.
AOI for flooding in Africa is well developed. AOI in the Caribbean will be discussed at an upcoming meeting in the Caribbean April 7-9
The WG experience with the Disaster Charter will be presented as part of the discussion to the ADC in Stresa

Cyclone scenario was reported on by Ron Lowther

The SIREN Portal will be moved to the operational server on March 31. this will allow more visibility
The Cyclone scenario from the NGC CFP response will be put on the Google sites page this week.
There was discussion about how visible are the services that the SIREN Portal accesses. The data is resident at operational weather agencies and being served to users through the SIREN portal. It is unclear if the services at the agencies are available for other clients/portals to access. George will discuss this further discuss this with Ron and his group.

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Arctic food chain scenario complete and ready for testing (using WCS and WFS)
Pika distribution also ready for testing (CSW for biodiversity)
More information about the latest on those scenarios is at http://prometeo.pin.unifi.it/om/help/GBIFClient-help-npole.html (linked from their community WG page)
Larry modeled both scenarios' enterprise viewpoints and has some questions. Will follow up by email
Landsat scenario: Currently stuck in accessing landsat archives (authentication issues). Eventually the goal is to have some images processed (over the last 30 years)
Larry finished the enterprise viewpoint for this scenario as well and will follow up with Doug on questions/clarifications

Demo Capture planning

Capture workshop May 4-5.

Request (by Stu) for not starting too early on May 4 to allow for folks to take a Sunday night flight to Stresa.
George to send agenda asap
Stay tuned for guidelines for demo capture

Guidelines for demo capture

Guidelines for software (camtesia 6) and how-to will be provided
a ppt template will be provided
3 and 12 min versions of each video for each scenario + IOC process (as discussed earlier)
Transverse WGs will determine if a video is needed to capture their processes if they're not included in the scenarios or IOC videos
Check out AIP-1 videos for an idea of what is expected.

Demos at http://www.ogcnetwork.net/AIPdemos
Download at http://www.ogcnetwork.net/pub/ogcnetwork/GEOSS/AI_Pilot_Demo.zip

Storyboards for scenarios

Roll call on who's planning to participate in the capture workshop

Stu Frye (Disaster)
Someone from GMU on behalf of Doug (if not, then remote Camtesia session)
Rudy Husar (AQ)
Gianni and/or others from ESA
Greg Y will know in a week
Herve C
Larry M
Lionel (Renewable Energy)
Mattia needs to check with Stefano
Robert Thomas (Compusult)

GEO ADC meetings, 3-8 May, Stresa, Italy; colocated with ISRSE

AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop, May 4-5
GEO ADC meeting, May 7-8
Committee meetings invitation

AIP-2 Development Models: RM-ODP and UML

Scenario model status

Renewable Energy: draft developed
Disasters: finished enterprise viewpoint for flood scenario. Hurricance Disaster scenario next.
Air Quality: finished enterprise viewpoint
Bio&CC: Finished enterprise viewpoint for Pika and Polar. Landsat scenario is next.

Information viewpoint for the scenarios to be developed
Computational viewpoint: use case for clearinghouse. Begin in two weeks, to be completed at the end of May

Outputs form the modeling tool suitable for web pages.
issues with image formats (WMF right now). He'll work with Josh on converting to another format suitable for posting on the google site for review by all.

Any other business

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule

Wed March 25: Joint CCRM and Portal Telecon 10:30 AM EDT
Fr March 27: Weekly AQ telecon 1:30 PM EDT
Fr March 27: Workflow & Processing telecon 9:00 AM EDT

Next AIP Telecon: 31 March 2009 including:

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on Use Cases for Testing

Telecon 17 March 2009

Discussions

Progress on Unit Testing

Unit Test Workflow
Interchange Matrix and Test Log
Not much progress since last time.
ESA has tested the clearinghouses and has comments. Josh will give Gianni access to the matrix so that he can input his test results
We need to populate the matrix with the components identified in the scenario. Folks need more guidance. Josh will organize a telecon on Friday to go over the process and expand the matrix.
The titles of the services and clients need to be more descriptive (at least to indicate the type of service, WMS, CSW, etc). This would help as the matrix grows.
Some components are both clients and services (e.g. Clearinghouses are clients to catalogs but they’re services to the Portals & clients)
We need to add the 3 geoportals to the matrix
SIREN will be added as soon as the system is operational (end of March)
We need to follow up with RE and BIOCC on their components

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on Use Cases for Testing

Workflow and Processing

Workflow had a telecon last week and focused on SSE; now looking at how to contribute to the interchange matrix and checking on using geobrain for the AQ and Disaster scenarios

Portals and Application Clients

Portals & Clients are supporting the testing but need to seek out clients other than the 3 geoportals (going back to the CFP responses and working with the community WGs)

Test Facility

Test Facility has published a new page on google site “Proxy View” for service testing endpoints. The Test Skeleton was highlighted.
Gianni also went over the results of his tests against the clearinghouses and noted the need for a policy when a problem occurs (does the user contact the clearinghouse manager; is the problem a harvest issue or a metadata entry issue; how do we keep track of the chain of metadata as it gets ingested into the clearinghouses and made available to the users)

Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata

Steve gave an update on the registries (still have work to do but hopefully the new versions will be live within a week if no other work takes precedence);
Steve is also reviewing UC#10 and will give Josh feedback.
Finally, Josh went over the 4 additional queryable fields proposed by AQ (see follow-up email from Erin). These will be discussed in the next CCRM telecon.

Access Services: products, sensors, models

Access WG is working on capturing the different approaches to model access by listing all the models used in the pilot and describing how they’re accessed.
Herve is putting out a call looking for an alert service (supporting Atom).

AIP-2 Development Models: RM-ODP and UML

Not discussed

Any other business

GCI Requirements Document

This document describes the fundamental requirements for all elements of the GCI.
Developed by the GEOSS Initial Operating Capability (GIOC) Task Force
Comments are due by March 26, 2009.
Comments are to be submitted to Doug Nebert (ddnebert@usgs.gov) for Task Force consideration and adjudication.
This document is the second of four documents to be prepared by the GIOC Task Force.
Doug provided an overview (emphasizing the sources of information used to create the tables in the document). There was a suggestion to do something similar for non-CGI components (e.g. Community services, catalogs & portals). The next version of the document will also include a test framework (for self-evaluation against the requirements) No other comments

GEO ADC meetings, 3-8 May, Stesa, Italy; colocated with ISRSE

AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop, May 4-5
GEO ADC meeting, May 7-8
Committee meetings invitation

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
Next AIP Telecon: 24 March 2009 including:

Community WG updates: focusing on components for Scenarios

Demo Capture planning

Storyboards for scenarios
Guidelines for demo capture software
AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop, May 4-5

Telecon 10 March 2009

There was a peak of 26 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Community WG updates: focusing on components for Scenarios

Air Quality and Health

WG update provided by Stefan Falke
New architecture diagram shows components and relationships for discovery in the AQ scenario

Discussion if the single sign-on requirement will be achieved. The relevant requirement applies only to the GCI.
How often to harvest from the community catalgogues. Now the harvesting is done every 2 days, it needs to happen quicker in particular during the testing phases when things are being updated. Marten described how the ESRI clearinghouse might support a "harvest me now" request.
Discussion if and how the INSPIRE metadata tool might be of use in the AQ discovery activities. Discusion of how this relates to the box on the architecture labelled "web form for other ISO"

Modeling of AQ Scenario. Larry's team will use the architecture diagram and the AQ scenario. The scenario will be developed further by the AQ WG with specialized use cases and a seperate column of the component instances.

Disasters

Report by Ron Lowther, Stuart Frye and Didier Giacobbo
Ron working with the Disaster WG to include a hurricane element to the scenario and use of the Northrop Grumman SIREN portal.
Didier described current activity on the Disaster scenario with focus on steps 5 through 11. These steps will probably be integrated in to a single step as the all inolve a single use of an SPS. Additional comments are of interest. The GEO Sensor Web task team may also be able to provide input (Contacts: Terence van Zyl and Ingo Simonis). Herve Caumont commented on this from an Access WG point of view.
Herve Caumont commented on how the Erdas Titan client can provide steps 4, 10, 12.
Disaster WG telecon on Thursday, 12 March, will concentrate on developing list of componetns for the scenario.

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Stefano Nativi sent a message earlier in the day that he was ill and unable to make the telecon.
Arctic Food Chain Scenario

Scenario has been mapped to use cases
Stefano's group has been working with Falk Huettmann on implementing the scenario
The Arctic Food and the Pika scenarios use the a Eco Niche Model accessed using a WPS. This is relevant to the Access WG discussion of access to models.

Polar Ecosystem scenario

Doug Nebert commented that a video of the scenario has been posted.

Larry asked what scenarios are mature enough to be modelled.

Doug commented that the Polar Ecosystems could be used. Yuqi Bai devleoped a UML Interaction diagram for the Polar Ecosystem scenario.
The Pika scenario is also mature having been developed previously in IP3 last year.

Renewable Energy

Lionel Menard provided update for the WG.
Lionel is developing a paper about the RE SBA for the ISRSE conference. The paper will help with the development.
Portlets have been added as RE list of resources
Discussion of metadata updates. Clearinghouses have some old metadata. May be do to renaming of of the metadata resources or may be left over from older cycle.
Lionel asks for others to browse the mesor.net portlet , register and complete the questionnaire.

Progress on Unit Testing

Unit Test Workflow
Interchange Matrix and Test Log

Additional guidance was added by Josh.
Need to step through specific examples in WGs. WGs can contact Josh for assistance.

Service status checker

available for WMS testing.
Web Inject tool can be used for checking WSDL
Discussion of the difference of testing WSDL is syntactic testing of and how WMS goes beyond syntactic testing.

Identifying Persistent Exemplars
Use Case to Component Matrix

In response to a previous discussion and request in Plenary telecon, this matrix shows which components are involved in the various use cases.

AIP-2 Development Models: RM-ODP and UML

Review of actions from the last page of Tailoring presentation
Scenario model status

Renewable Energy: draft developed
Disasters: under developed
Air Quality: to be worked on next
Bio&CC: future.

Information viewpoint for the scenarios to be developed
Computational viewpoint: use case for clearinghouse
Outputs form the modeling tool suitable for web pages.

Larry to create html output from modelling tool and send to Josh and George

Any other business

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
GEO ADC meetings, 3-8 May, Stesa, Italy; colocated with ISRSE

AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop, May 4-5
GEO ADC and UIC meetings, May 7-8

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 17 March 2009 including:

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on Use Cases for Testing

Telecon 3 March 2009

There was a peak of 28 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Progress on Unit Test Phase #1

Unit Test Workflow
Interchange Matrix and Test Log

There is a need for more guidance and outreach to support participants using the matrix and log. Josh will pursue this.
There were unexpected links for the blog headings that Josh will investigate.
To use the Google sites and Blog you need a google account. Contact Josh (jlieberman at traversetechnologies.com) for further assistance.
Josh to make the link to the Interchange Matrix more apparent on the AIP google sites main page.

Identifying Persistent Exemplars
USGS Service Checker - Doug Nebert

Update on Test Facility page
a link to this URL to the Service Checker.
Score that is returned is an artifact of the prior development of the service checker. The most informative part is the green or red arrows showing success or failure of the tests.
Testing now of WMS. Developing testing for WCS, WFS, CSW, and Z39.50
Looking for someone to host an RSS feed of the services that are too be routinely checked by the service checker. Josh indicated that this might be possible with the Interchange Matrix on Google sites.
Lionel asked about WSDL services. Doug commented that there are existing services for checking WSDL comments. Perhaps the WSi site has those tools. Additional discussion regarded that those services can check if the document is a valid WSDL document, but are weaker in developing requests based on the WSDL document that are then requested of the on-line service.
Stuart asked who is going to use the service checker? The checker can be used by a service in advance of registration and the plan is to run it routinely to determine operational status. See Use Case 09. It is optional to test before registration, but some organizations had requested such a capabiltiy in AIP-1.
Further discussion of the service checker is anticiapted in the Wednesday telecon for CCRM.

Unit Test Phase #2

As there is no clear demarcation between Unit Test Phase #1 and #2, we will simply refer to this as Unit Testing, and not refer to phases.

Ron Lowther asked about the status of the Disaster Management Scenario

Ron's team is focusing on a hurricane strike.
Stuart suggested that this could be included in the flooding scenario.
Hervé noted that updates would be needed to the scenario.
Stuart, Ron and Hervé agreed to discuss this further.

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on Use Cases for Testing

Portals and Application Clients

Nadine Alameh provided an update for the WG
Two use cases have been further developed (UC04 and UC05). Futher refinement is anticipated as testing proceeds.
Need to continue to make distinctions as to which type of clients are being used: GEO Portal, Community Portal, Application Clients, Portlets.
Also need to add a pre-condition to UC05 that the user has a client that matches the services that are to be invoked. Note that no client connects to all services.
UC07 is not yet a priority and will be worked on later.

Test Facility

Gianni Sotis provided an update for the WG.
The USGS Service checker should be listed under the tools section of Test Facility google sites - Doug Nebert action.
Discussion of the "Test Me" button should be added to the Use CAse09
The SSE remains avaialble as a facility for testing. No AIP-2 requests have been made to use SSE.
George suggested a telecon of the Test Facility WG to address these issues.

Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata

Josh Lieberman provided an update for the WG.
UC03 has been updated to an intial draft state.
Further discussion is needed of how to search for services not listed in the CSR
Erin has done an excellent job on cross-walk of elements between a getCapabilities response and an ISO 19115/19 document.
Josh suggested that the group needs to discuss where the service status information is to be listed and displayed. Do results form the service checker appear in the CSR?
CCRM telecon planned for Wednesday.

Access Services: products, sensors, models

Hervé Caumont provided an update for the WG.
There were two telecons last week discussing how to access models. Several actions were identified.
A specialized use case for UC02 "Deploy" has been developed as part of the AQ scenario work. The specialization applies to deploying a WCS.
WG will continue to refine use cases thorugh working with the Community WGs.
Flood scenario is continuing to update their specialized use cases.

Workflow and Processing

Eugene Yu provided an update for the WG.
Working on the use cases.
Working on Models

AIP-2 Development Models: RM-ODP and UML

Tailoring presentation

Describes the tailored process for applying RM-ODP and UML modeling to AIP-2.

Status of Actions are listed at the end of the presentation:

Larry to send Josh an html output of the Disaster flooding activity diagram - status open
Enterprise Viewpoint models by INCOSE

Disaster - draft has been created
Renewable energy - draft has been created
AQ - to be started
Bio&CC - to be started

Computational viewpoint on Use Cases activity

Use Case 03 activity diagram - Clearinghouse (George sent diagram from AIP-1 to Larry)

Get the modeling approach on to a web page - started

Any other business

10th User Interface Committee Meeting , Sophia Antipolis February 26-27, 2009

Lionel Menard expressed that the AIP-2 presentations to the 10th UIC meeting were well received.
Presentations:

Disasters by Stuart Frye
Air Quality by David McCabe
Renewable Energy by Lionel Menard

Thanks to the GEO Secretariat, the presentations of the 10th UIC Meeting are on line. You will find some presentations that cover works carried out within the AIP-2.

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule
Tentative: GEO ADC meetings, 3-8 May, Stesa, Italy; colocated with ISRSE

"AIP-2 Demo Capture Workshop" to be held 4-5 May at this venue.
Detailed Programme for the week

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 10 March 2009 including:

Community WG updates: focusing on components for Scenarios

Telecon 24 February 2009

There was a peak of 13 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Progress on Unit Test Phase #1

Unit Test Workflow
Interchange Matrix and Test Log

Entries in the table are slow in coming, but everyone felt the defined process was a good one with clarifications and automation.
The USGS EDC service facility is near ready for deployment. The facilty can be used to test components in unit test phase 1 and for on-going testing during operations. Plasn are to add a "Test Me Now" button in the CSR registration process. The test facility will be discussed during the 10:30 EDT Wednesday time slot typically used by WGs. Doug Nebert to lead the telecon.
Josh will develop additional guidance on the Interchange Matrix and help to fill in some of the links in the matrix.
Components listed in the matrix row and column headings should be linked to their entry in the CSR.

Scenarios to UC Matrix

Hervé provided an overview of how the cells of the Scenario-to-UseCase Matrix provide links to the Specialized Use Cases. The specialized use cases adapt the general use cases to the specifics of the scenarios. The AQ group provided an excellent summary of their specialized use cases during the their WG group report - see notes below. The series of cross-WG telecons in January have been a major method for completing this analysis.
INCOSE models - Larry McGovern and George Percivall met last Friday to discuss how the models being developed by INCOSE can be combined with the Scenario and Use Case developments on the Google Sites. Larry worked with the Disaster Management WG to revise the models which now appear in the Disaster Scenario in MS Word format. There was discussion that this work needs more visibility: communications should be on AIP mailing lists and the models should be posted to the google sites. Larry's group has grown recently and will now address more topics.

ACTION:Telecon to discsuss AIP-2 models considering tailoring of ISO/IEC 19793. Those wanting to participate are Larry, Hervé, Josh, Nadine and George - any else interested should contact George. Telecon needs to happen this week.

Community WG updates: focusing on components for Scenarios

Disasters

Didier Giacobbo and Stuart Frye provided an update for the WG.
The Disasters Management scenario in google sites is mature. The Disaster Management scenario in the Word document includes the UML models. The two versions of the scenario are in sync. It would be good to publish the UML models on the Google Sites page.
The Disasters WG results can be a basis for others to use.
There is interest in the scenario development to be more visible, e.g., use the AIP WG mailing lists for discussions and announcements of any telecons.
Josh and others commented that the 19793 approach should be viewed as informative to the development process. There is no aticipation that the UML models will be used in a Model Driven Architecture fashion to create software code for example.
The Disasters WG aims to develop a list of components needed to implement their scenario. A draft of the list is anticipated to be availabe within 2 weeks.
It would be of value to know the relationships between use cases and the types of components.

ACTION: George to develop a matrix that maps between use cases and component types

The Disasters WG is planning to have a WG telecon.

Climate Change and Biodiversity

There was no one to provide a report for the WG.
Larry indicated that he is looking for material he can use to develop models.
Doug indicated that UML models are being developed as part of the Landsat vegetation processing project. There will be a telecon on this scenario on Monday March 2nd. Doug will annoucne the telecon to the group. The telecon will also discuss a list of components for this scenario.
Other scenarios in the CC&Bio WG need to develop their scenarios and lists of components for those scenarios.

Renewable Energy

There was no one to provide a report for the WG.
Larry indicated that he has finished modeling the RE Scenario and is seeking to review with the WG. Larry to contact Lionel.

Air Quality and Health

Stefan Falke provided an update for the WG.
The AQ WG worked with the Transverse Tech WGs to develop specialized use cases. The WG examined the generalized use cases and then determined how they would be achieved in the context of AQ. For example UC01 and UC02 are specialized for deploying and registering a specific WCS service. The resulting specialized use cases are documented on seperate google sites pages which are linked into the cells of the Scenario-to-UseCase matrix. UC03 and UC04 are also specialized regarding metadata for AQ.
In specialized UC04 there was discussion of using just the ESRI REST interface as this is only provided by ESRI and not the other component providers. There was discussion that OpenSearch may be an option. In any case the GEO catalogues need to support the CSW Core Queriables in a search.
Larry expressed interest to work with the AQ group to model their scenario in UML. Larry and Stefan will coordinate on this.
Stefan commented that the telecon with the Transvers Tech WGs was very valuable to build the scenario and specialized use cases.
The AQ WG will develop a list of components for thier scenario.
The AQ WG will hold telecon on Friday at 1:30.

Any other business

AIP-2 Telecons this week - schedule

Service Checker telecon: Wednesday at 10:30 EST
Access WG telecon: Thursday at 9 am EST
AQ WG telecon: Friday at 1:30 EST

10th User Interface Committee Meeting , Sophia Antipolis February 26-27, 2009

Encourage Community WGs to participate regarding Scenarios - contact Thierry Ranchin
www.geoss-ecp.org/uic2009/

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 3 March 2009 including:

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on Use Cases for Testing

Telecon 17 February 2009

There was a peak of 23 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Progress on Unit Test Phase #1

Message to Plenary : Call for components for test phase #1

USGS is establishing a testing service at the Eros Data Center (EDC) that can be used for initial and routine status testing of services. This is as described in Use Case 09 and as described in the Message to the plenary announcing the initiation of Unit Testing. The ESA SSE provides a similar capability.

Interchange Matrix and Test Log

Not all GEOSS registered components should be listed in the Interchange Matrix. The matrix should list services that are invovled in the Community Scenarios and those that plan to be persistent exemplars.
It may be that the Interchange Matrix becomes too large as a single matrix. The matrix may need to be broken into seperate matricies perhaps one matrix per use case.

Scenarios to UC Matrix

Specialized use cases - an update - Hervé

There was discussion of the generalized Use Cases and specialized Use Cases.
The top row of the matrix provides links to the Scenarios. The Scenarios provide description of the steps in the scenario and list the generalized Use Case for each step.
The left column lists the generalized Use Cases.
The cells in the matrix provide links to the specialized Use Cases.
Specialize use cases provide more detail than the generalized use cases. Some of the specialization is due to the detail needed to support testing: WMS and CAP as specialized use cases of UC06, Interact with Services. Some of the specialization is needed to support the specific scenario: mediation in the Biodiversity Scenario as a specialization of UC03 and 04.

INCOSE models - Larry

The INCOSE team has developed additional information for the scenarios that can now be included. The most recent work has been with Disasters and Renewable Energy.
The approach to incorporate the UML models from INCOSE with the scenarios and use cases listed in the Google Sites needs to be developed. For example how the UML IT views related to the Use Cases.
Larry McGovern and George Percivall are meeting on Friday 20 February to discuss this.

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on WG Use Cases for Testing

Test Facility

Gianni Sotis provided an upate for the working group
The SSE test facility is up and running. Component providers who want to use the SSE to test their components (UC09) will need to setup an account on SSE .
The SSE and the EDC Service Checker are anticipated to both be avaialable to GEOSS as Test Facilities.
Use Case 09 for the Test Facility are avaialble.

Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata

CCRM had a telecon last week
Action from last plenary telecon: define consistent approach for Web Accessible Folder (WAF).

WAF is referenced two CSR entires as a Special arrangement in Renewable Energy WAF and the Air Quality Community Catalogue WAF
WAF is not yet listed in the Standards and Interoperability Registry
A simple one-page-or-less description of a WAF is needed.

CCRM discussions resovled that the basic query elements for space and time are well established, e.g., CSW core queryables. There is a need for basic query elements for parameters.There are several parameter lists avaiablle including GCMD and GEMET (INSPIRE/EEA developed). The CEOS Systems Engineering group is developing a list of terms for observerables - this should be ready this fall for use in AIP.

CCRM should develop a recommendation for core GEOSS parameters anticipating that this cannot be implemted in AIP-2.

Access Services: products, sensors, models

Herve Caumont provided an update for the Working Group
There was a telecon on 29 January.
Specialized use cases are being developed, e.g., CAP, SOS, etc.
Specialized use cases for models are needed. Stefano, Gary and Glenn have been working on this. Herve to check.
Many of the use cases are ready for testing.
WFS specialized use case needs work to identify how it relates to the persistent exemplar data services that are needed as framework data for the scenarios.

Need to connect with the UIC Data tasks that are under development.

Workflow and Alerts

Eugene Yu provided an update for the Working Group
The GMU BPEL Power workflow system is up and running.
GMU GeoBrain is supporting the polar ecosystems scenario by processing landsat data
GMU and the Disasters scenario have been in contact. BPEL power was used for the Fire Scenario in AIP-1. Currently processing in the AIP-2 flood scenario is performed on the EO-1 satellite.
What is the status fo the SSE workflow? Is it being used in AIP-2?
Larry commented that the UML scenario analysis will identify workflow requirements.

Portals and Application Clients

Nadine Alameh provided an update for the Working Group
WG telecon on Feb 11th to develop UC04 and UC05
UC05 specialized usec ase for CAP is on a google sites page that needs to be linked into the P&C page - Herve to do this.
Jaxa resources were tested in support of the disaster management sceanrio

Any other business

GEO Architecture and Data Committee ADC-9, Feb 9-10, Kyoto Japan

Doug Nebert providing AIP-2 update to ADC-9
Current AIP-2 Summary presentation
ADC discssued reorganizing the data tasks. Global datasets are being developed in other SBA tasks.
Targets are being developed for the Work Plan
Each ADC task status was reviewd at ADC-9
GEOSS Asia preceeded ADC-9 and was well attended.
ADC-10 will be in May in Stresa near the ISRSE - also UIC and maybe S&T committees.

10th User Interface Committee Meeting , Sophia Antipolis February 26-27, 2009

Encourage Community WGs to participate regarding Scenarios - contact Thierry Ranchin or Lionel Menard
Lionel is still seeking Community WG participation in a session at the UIC. The session will include a telecon/webex to allow participation without travel.
www.geoss-ecp.org/uic2009/

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 24 February 2009 including:

Community WG updates focusing on Scenarios

Telecon 10 February 2009

There was a peak of 17 participants on the Web Ex for this session.

Discussions

Beginning Unit Test Phase #1

Unit Testing based on AIP Use Cases -
Status of Use Cases as of 9 Feb 2009

Basic Flow of Events ready to support testing: UC 1, 2, 4, 8, 9

UC8 ready but in separate document- workflow
UC9 web page table format is narrow - testing

Not Ready: CCRM (3, 10); P&C (5, 7); Access (6)
Specialized use cases being developed for UC 2 and 6
Actions:

UC03 - Josh to develop and post this week
UC10 - Josh to develop and work with SIF
UC05 - Nadine to post today for discussion in tomorrow's P&C Telecon
UC07 - Nadine to post later in the week
UC06 - George to contact Hervé
UC08 - Eugene to put Basic Flow of events in google sites page and link to separate document
UC09 - Gianni to correct formating in google sites table to make table wider.

Unit Test Workflow reviewed
AIP-2 Test Log using Blogger approach discussed by Josh

Interchange Journal (linked on the main page of google sites contains:

Interchange Matrix showing the clients and servers involved in testing
Report feed from Blogger showing the latest test reports
Instructions on how to use labels for finding test results.
Cells in the Interchange Matrix will contain

Links to blogger entries that provide the history of testing for that client and server
Cell to be colored to indicate status: red, yellow, green

Use a single matrix in Phase 1; may have multiple matricies in phase 2 - depending upon number of entries.

Test Log implemented with Blogger used for history of testing

All accounts from google sites have been set up in blogger. Users log in with the same credentials. If you have problems contact Josh Lieberman
Testing history to be created by adding a "New Post" followed by comments to the post.
Labels to be used to ensure discovery of the history.

Call for components for test phase #1

Having UC 1, 2, 9 sufficient to call for components
Clients to initiate testing after servers complete preparation
Consensus DECISION made to announce Test Phase 1 calling for components
ACTION: Percivall to develop e-mail announcing the start and send the message to AIP Plenary mailing list.

Community WG updates focusing on Scenarios

Climate Change and Biodiversity

No WG representative present to provide a report

Renewable Energy

Lionel Menard had to leave the telecon early but provided this WG udpate by e-mail
Work continues to build the internal procedure for bringing radiation data to map layer. I have a discussion on that topic about best practices with Herve.
Lionel attended the last CCRM Telecon, report about my action on the WAF for declaring Web Services. Josh, Doug Marteen and Nadine can report about it. I made some comments in the minutes of the Telecon on the Google Wiki site.
Lionel worked on the Scenario for Planner Matrix and take into account some comments from Herve and Nadine. It seems to be quite understandable by everyone and cope with both use cases and logic action orders.
Lionel is to send Robert some .war file for portlet deployment testing on a Portal candidate. We lack one of our developers here but I'm coffin dent to provide it soon.
Lionel will declare the existing portlet that support our Web Services to the registry for harvesting purpose.

Air Quality and Health

WG report provided by Stefan Falke and Erin Robinson
Telecon that discussed connecting AQ Scenario to Transverse Use Cases was of high benefit to the WG.
Scenario to Use Case Matrix for AQ was developed.
Discussion of UC01 applied to AQ for registering a WCS service. AQ group is developing tools/approaches to produce metadata records based upon getCapabilities response. Recall that getCapabilities does not directly include all information for registering a dataset. The AQ Portal will be an aid in this process. May be reusable process for others to use. To be discussed in future CCRM WG telecon.
Discussion of Portals and Clearinghouses. The GEO Web Portals and the GEOSS Clearinghouses are distinct components. GEO Web Portals are provided by ESRI, Compusult, and ESA. GEOSS Clearinghouses are being developed by ESRI, Compusult and USGS. ESA provides a Community Catalogue to GEOSS that performs clearinghouse functions for a specific community. Each GEOSS Clearinghouse provides a CSW interface that is searchable by any CSW client. For example Community Portals and Application Clients can be clients to the GEOSS Clearinghouse.
UC03 will describe how the Clearinghouse does distributed searching and harvesting. The AIP-2 Call for Participation contains that information as well - see Figure 39
AQ WG is developing a sematic capability in the client side. This should be described in UC04. Phil Yang is the point of contact for this topic in the AQ WG.

Disasters

WG update provided by Stuart Frye
Continuing development of the Scenario. A change is that since the International Charter does not allow testing, it cannot be invoked unless there is a disaster. The Disaster WG is now working directly with the EO providers to implement the disaster scenario. Emaphsis is on several CEOS members: ESA, JAXA, CSA, Taiwan.
Results are not yet posted from the previously held WG telecon linking the disasters scenario to the Use Cases. ACTION: Percivall to check with Caumont about the status. There are some differences in how the Scenario to Use Case MAtrix mapping is being completed for the differing Scenarios.
Disasters WG to participate in several upcoming meetings:CEOS SIT in March, Caribbean disasters meeting in March, Caribbean Meterology meeting in April.

Any other business

GEO Architecture and Data Committee ADC-9, Feb 9-10, Kyoto Japan

Doug Nebert providing AIP-2 update to ADC-9
Current AIP-2 Summary presentation

10th User Interface Committee Meeting , Sophia Antipolis February 26-27, 2009

Encourage Community WGs to participate regarding Scenarios - contact Thierry Ranchin
www.geoss-ecp.org/uic2009/

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 17 February 2009 including:

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on WG Use Cases for Testing

Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata

Action from last telecon: define consistent approach for WAF

Access Services: products, sensors, models
Workflow and Alerts
Portals and Application Clients
Test Facility

Telecon 3 February 2009 Discussions

Beginning Unit Test Phase #1

AIP-2 Test and Demonstration description
Unit Testing based on AIP Use Cases
Call for components to be tested

Ganni Sotis remarked that the ESA SSE Test Facility is ready to be used for service testing.
Doug Nebert discussed that the EDC facility is on-line and may be used, but some things need to be confirmed.
Discussion of how we plan to indicate that a servers is ready for testing

Doug to check if the EDC/EROS RSS feed could be used (Michelle Anthony is the contact)
Yuqi Bai commented that the CSR should have a field for "test me" status. This should be a long term direction. Test me status could be displayed in the clients/portals. Not all services are directly in the CSR but rather in the community catalogues.
Use Case for registration (UC#1) should consider adding "test me" step.
Two variations for "test me":

as a request to the test facility to test the service either in advance of operations or during ops
that the service is ready for client/server testing.

Clients to initiate testing after servers complete preparation

Add clients to current list: Energy Community Portal, Titan (ERDAS) for disasters, Northrop Grumman client for disasters

AIP-2 Test Log options: eventum, twitter, blogger

Eventum:

suggested by Marten based upon previous use in the US Geo-one-stop project.
http://eventum.mysql.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
open source tool for software development and bug tracking.
I believe and instance would need to be hosted somewhere for AIP-2

Twitter

Suggested by Erin
a microblog (140 characters or so) that can be used for status updates - may be too short
it doesn't have the graphs and interface like it looks like Eventum has.
It is handy b/c it produces an RSS feed that can be embedded other places.

Blogger

Suggested by Josh
Blogger: GEOSS AIP-2 Interchange Issues Blog.
You need to sign in with a Google Account
To learn more about Blogger and starting your own free blog visit http://www.blogger.com.

Discussion of the three test log options led to the resolution that we will focus on Blogger. Josh, Erin, Nadine to consider recommending some practices for our use of Blogger as an AIP-2 Test Log.

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focus on WG Use Cases for Testing

Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata

No one present to provide update.
Steve provided an update the CSR and Standards registry upgrade

Plan to go live with new version in Mid February
REcommend that people hold off on registering new items until the transition is complete as new fields are in the new version.

Action from last telecon: define consistent approach for WAF

Lionel provided an update on the WAF testing that he has done tithe ESRI and USGS clearinghouses

Access Services: products, sensors, models

Herve provided an update for the working group
Telecon las week emphasised SWE. Minutes to be posted.
Use cases are in progress. Not yet ready to support testing.
Gianni to send use case for ordering to the access mail list or to Herve. Completed - see this message:

https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/private/aip_access/2009-February/000022.html

Specialized use cases are needed for testing in some cases.

Workflow and Alerts

Eugene provided an update for the working group
Telecon held last Friday
Gianni to seek ESA SSE review of the Workflow USe case (UC#8)
Severe weather event detection using WCS, WFS and WPS. WPS is being used for several algorithms.
Stuart Frye to contact Eugene regarding OpenID approach to authorization in workflow.

Portals and Application Clients

Nadine Alameh provided an update for the working group
WG has participated in the several transverse telecons - very valuable to defining the P&C content.
Roll of GEOSS Web Portals is becoming better understood. There is a role for the Geo portals and the community portals in the community scenarios.
Anticipate posting drafts of use cases #4 (Search) and #5 (Presentation) this week.
Issue is the variable approaches of portals hooking to the clearinghouses and not the registries.
UC#5 will have differences for web service access versus alerts.

Test Facility

Gianni provided an update for the working group
WG activity is currently slow as the use case is posted
11 tools have been registered
User must register in SSE in order to use the test test tools
Service monitoring can be provided by SSE

Any other business

GEO Architecture and Data Committee ADC-9, Feb 9-10, Kyoto Japan

Doug Nebert providing AIP-2 update to ADC-9
Current AIP-2 Summary presentation

10th User Interface Committee Meeting , Sophia Antipolis February 26-27, 2009

Encourage Community WGs to participate regarding Scenarios - contact Thierry Ranchin
www.geoss-ecp.org/uic2009/

ESA global land cover map available online

Land cover dataset can be downloaded - can someone host it on a WMS?
The GlobCover Land Cover product is the highest resolution (300 meters) Global Land Cover product ever produced and independently validated, derived from an automatic and regionally-tuned classification of a time series of MERIS FR composites, which cover the period: December 2004-June 2006.

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 10 February 2009 including:

Community WG updates focusing on Scenarios

Telecon 27 January 2009 There was a peak of 28 participants on the Web Ex for this session. Discussions

Plan for AIP-2 Test and Demonstration

Scenarios and Use Cases baselined by the end of January.
First call for components to be tested - February 3
Discuss ideas for an AIP-2 Test Blog to coordinate testing. Eventum mentioned as a useful test log.

GEOSS Registries Transition plan - Yuqi Bai, Steven Browdy

Testing new registries now. Anticipate going live in early February. Will require a half day of down time for transition. Announcements will be sent to component and service providers before transition.
New feature will be the dynamic poll of standards registry from Component and Services Registry (CSR). All existing CSR records will be augmented.

Community WG updates focusing on Scenarios

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Doug Nebert provided an update on the Polar Ecosystems scenario. GMU is applying the GeoBrain services environment to the processing of Landsta data to determin 30 year change in NDVI of the Artic. Landsat data coming from the EDC Landsat Data Portal through CSW and WCS for Level 0 and Level 1 data: GeoTIFf format 200-300 MB; 100 MB compressed. Plan is to have workflow environement ready in March. Use Case is avaialble now. Arctic community catalog planned for WMS instances poanned for 1st of May.

Renewable Energy

Lionel Menard provided and upate.
WMS layers or energy are needed with specific interest in 3 layers including one for protected areas.
Mines Paris Tech serving up direct nomalized irradiance for solar siting scenario (Did not capture how the data is to be served. Also serving DEM layres for scope and shadows.
Web services in Energy Community Portal
Building a portlet client. Will offer portlet to other portal providers.
Cross WG telecon was great help to the RE scenario.
ESRI has harvested the WAF provided by the RE WG. Also working with Compusult and ESA on portals and portlaets.
Tutorial on deploying portlets is avaialble on the Mines Paris web page.
Scenario telecon planned for tomorrow. Facility Planner is the main actor.

Disasters

Stuart Frye and Didier Giaccobo provided upate for WG
Full group telecon was held last Tuesday
Cross WG Telecon was held on Thrusday.
Planning face to face meeting in March
Seeking comments on draft scenario: response to flood disaster - triggering the international charter.

Air Quality and Health

David McCabe, Erin Robinson and Stefan Falke were on the call for this WG.
Scenario alignment with use cases is ongoing
working on metadata into clearinghouse
ACTION: define consistent approach for Web Accessible Folder.
Cross WG Telecon on Friday

Any other business

GEO Architecture and Data Committee ADC-9, Feb 9-10, Kyoto Japan

Doug Nebert to present the AIP-2 status to ADC-9

Call for Contribution to GEO 2009-2011 Work Plan
GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
Next AIP Telecon: 3 February 2009

Telecon 13 January 2009 There was a peak of 25 participants on the Web Ex for this session. Discussions

Use Cases and Scenarios

Discussion of Consolidated list of Use Cases as developed by Josh, Hervé, Nadine and others.
Josh pointed out that the list is roughly in order that the use cases will be used typically, e.g., publish, find, bind.
Use Case Diagram was presented - ppt pdf
Hervé pointed out how use case 6 extends use case 5. Also, use case 6 will have child use cases.
Stuart Frye began discussion of applying the use cases to the scenarios. For example: Model access is part of use case 6. Alerts are also part of use case 6.
Lionel Menard began discussion about how portlets are a part of use cases 4, 5, and 7. This led to a reprise of previous discussion that portlets should be registered as GEOSS resources.
Further discussion will occur during a series of telecons on each Community Scenario topic in applying the use cases - Hervé to announce the telecons.
Mapping between Scenarios and Use Cases

Transverse Technology WG Updates - focusing on WG Use Cases

Access Services: products, sensors, models

Glenn Rutledge discussed recent presentation of AIP to ESIP Federation - see notes below
AFter the upcoming telecons the Access WG leaders anticpate knowing when Access Use Cases will be developed. Anticipating being ready by the end of the month.

Workflow and Alerts

Telecon for WG planned for Friday.
Gobe Hobona interested in workflow to be promoted.
Need to discuss how to address a workflow deployed as persistent service.
The BPEL workflow use case should be ready in about a week.

Portals and Application Clients

Nadine and Hervé are planning to develop WG plan by next Monday.
Use cases drafted in next 2 weeks.

Test Facility

WG leader not present
Draft of Test use case previously presented.
Registering test resources are part of use case 1

Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata

Josh provide an update
Discussion prompted by question by Jeff de la Beaujardiere regarding how to register an IOOS SOS Service. Conclusion was that IOSS should consider creating a Community Catalogue to register the multiple IOOS services.The IOOS catalgoue would then be registered and become part of the Clearinghouse interactions.

GEOSS Registries Transition plan - Yuqi Bai, Steven Browdy

The Component and Service Registry (CSR) and the Standards and Interoperability Registry (SIR) are being updated in coordination with each other.
The transition to new versions of CSR and SIR are planned for later this month. Testing will occur over the next two weeks.
Current registered resources will not need to register.
Dynamci connection between CSR and SIR will be a new feature.

Draft Plan for AIP-2 Test and Demonstration - Percivall

Stuart Frye expressed that the schedule changes are a releive to the Disasters WG - the new schedule looks achievable.
Lionel Menard anticipates that the energy scenario will be ready in two weeks. Some components will be ready for the 1st call for components. Some will not be ready until the 2nd call.

Any other business

AIP presentations to ESIP Federation meeting, 8 January

AIP Overview - George Percivall, OGC ppt
Access Working Group - Glenn Rutledge, NOAA ppt
Air Quality Working Group - Stefan Falke, Northrop Grumman ppt
Comments to Glenn after the presentations were that it appears that GEO is a monolithic systems. Discussion that this is an inacurate perception based upon the current state of development, e.g., use cases, that were emphasized in the presentations. Future presetations about AIP need to also cover how GEOSS is a system of systems that addresses reusable patterns in an environment of variations for each SBA application.
Perception was that all functions must go through the GEOSS portal. This is not correct.
Use cases need to have their data on their own desktops as well as to make the data available for others to see.
Stefan Falke commented that the emphasis on user needs will now become the emphasis as we focus on the SBA scenarios.

GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop 2009, May 21-22, 2009, Tsukuba, Japan - to be discussed at future telecon
GEO 2009-2011 Work Plan Revision 1 - to be discussed at future telecon
Next AIP Telecon: 27 January 2009

Community WG updates focusing on Scenarios

Telecon 6 January 2009 There was a peak of 15 participants on the Web Ex for this session. Discussions

Welcome Mike Tanner, GEO Secretariat for ADC

Mike Tanner is on the GEO Secretariat staff to support the ADC with an emphasis on Climate.

He is secunded to the GEO Sec from the US-NOAA.
Mike is supporting the AIP since Osamu Ochiai's departure at the end of last year.
It is planned that two other persons will join the GEO Sec staff by March 2009 to support the ADC. Support of the AIP Task is expected to transition from Mike to one of the other persons. Mike will support the AIP until that time.

Mike provide updates on several important topics:

A summary of the GEO Sec support to the various committees of GEO.
The Data Sharing Task Team will become the Data Sharing Task Force
We should begin thinking about how AIP will support the Ministerial meeting in 2010.
The GEO Work Plan for 2009 should be issued in about a week.

Use Cases and Scenarios

George P provided a summary of the role of the Scenarios and Use Cases in the AIP-2

It is important that a consolidated list of use cases be baselined to allow for affective coordinated development of the Scenarios and Use Cases in a timely fashion in AIP-2.

Several topics regarding the Consolidated list of Use Cases were discussed

Josh Lieberman commented that further refinement is needed and that a page on Google Sites should be established for each Use Case.
Steve Browdy commented on the use case regarding adding standards to the GEOSS registry. The SIF has created an interaction diagram but no text describing the updated registries to be deployed later this month. It was agreed that the CCRM WG would continue to lead the development of this use case but will interact intesivley with the SIF. Steve will raise this discussion at the SIF meeting later this week.

ACTION: Steve Browdy to bring discussion of this Use Case to the SIF.

Steve Browdy and Yuqi Bai provided an update on the development of the GEOSS Registries. There will be a verison change later this month of the various registries.

ACTION: Schedule a discussion of the GEOSS Registries update on a future AIP Plenary

Josh and George took an action to further refine the use case list. This action has now (7 January) been completed and a message sent to the AIP Plenary.

ACTION: The WGs should use this version of the list to develop there Scenarios and Use cass: Consolidated list of Use Cases

Mapping between Scenarios and Use Cases

Each column of the matrix should be a Scenarion not a WG. Some WGs have more than one Scenario.
Agreement that the Column Headings should link to the Scenarios
Agreement that the Row Headings should link to the Use Cases
Discussion that the cells of the matrix should link to additional detail. This will need to be disucssed further.
Hervé Caumont described the work that the Access WG has done to further the linkage of Scenarios and Use Cases

This analysis has been useful for refining the list of use cases
Community Working Groups can use this analysis in developing their Scenarios.

Use Case status (2 min) by Transverse Technology WG leaders

Access Services: products, sensors, models

The development of the Access Use Cases is underway
The analysis of linkage of Scenarios and Use Cases has raised the need for more detail beyond the currently defined level of the use cases. This is labled as "specialized use cases" in the Access WG table.
George P. commented that the Scenarios and Use Cases need to be at the abstract or "type" level and what the Access WG has identified is the need for development of specialized or "instance" level descriptions. The specialized use cases need to contain the specific instances of services (with network addresses), datasets with specific parameters, and specific areas of Interest. The development of instance level definition must also relate to the development of storyboards for the demonstrations and to test planning for integration prior to the scenario demonstrations. Stefan Falke and Hervé C. also confirmed that this next level of instance specifications need to be developed.

ACTION: George P. to draft a plan for AIP-2 test and demo including development of instance level specifications.

Hervé commented that this topic of specialized specs will be discussed in a Joint Telecon of the CCRM and Biodiversity WGs on January 16th

Workflow and Alerts
Portals and Application Clients
Test Facility
Clearinghouse, Catalogues, Registries and Metadata

Josh commented that the development of the CCRM Use cases is dependent upon refinement of the list of use cases.

Community WG updates including Scenario development

Renewable Energy

No one present was able to provide an update for this WG.

Air Quality and Health

Stefan Falke provided an update for the WG
The WG is developing their Scenario
The WG is developing and identifying a set of components and services for the Scenario

Community Catalogue, Community Portal , WCS for Smoke, WAF for metadata.
The Community Portal has been intially deployed using Liferay and RSS feeds

Disasters

Stuart Frye and Didier Giacobbo provided an update for the WG.
Stuart is planning the next Disasters WG telecon. As there will not be an AIP Plenary Telecon on January 20th - Stuart is considering this date

The Disasters WG typically has 50 persons

The WG is planning to promote their work at an upcoming meeting in Barbados in February. Also the WG may also support a Met meeting in April.
A draft of the Disaster Scenario exists and the WG is seeking feedback
Efforts continue to identify cross WG collaboration

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Gary Geller provided an update for the WG.
Updates were provided on the three Scenarios of the WG

Pika distribution Scenario was previously developed in the IP3 and is farily mature

Update provided by Gary Geller for Stefano Nativi
JPL has developed a model to support the scenario

Arctic Polar Ecosystems

update was provided by Doug Nebert
workflow for land change using Landsat data now freely available from USGS
Doug has identified a person to develop the scenario further with results later this month.

Artic Food Chaing

Update provided by Gary Geller
Falk is in the field, so we anticipate the document later this month

Any other business

SBA focus per GEO Web Portal Provider in G-IOC Task Force - this will need to be reported on during a later telecon.
AIP presentations to ESIP Federation meeting, 8 January
Next AIP Telecon: 13 January

Previous Telecons

Telecons before 2009 are listed separately.

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