Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal

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Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal Cameron Kiddle Research Fellow, Grid Research Centre, University of Calgary

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Presentation I gave on GeoChronos at the BCNET / CANARIE Conference in Vancouver on May 5th, 2010. It is primarily composed of a mix of slides from previous presentations I have given on GeoChronos.

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Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with

the GeoChronos PortalCameron Kiddle

Research Fellow, Grid Research Centre, University of Calgary

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• An on-line platform• For:

• Earth Observation Scientists• Facilitating:

• Collaboration between scientists• Application access, management and sharing• Data access, management and sharing

• Leveraging:• Web 2.0 and social networking technologies• Cloud computing technologies• Semantic Web technologies

• Funded by:• CANARIE - Network Enabled Platform (NEP-1) program• Cybera

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(http://geochronos.org/)

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Motivation• Social Networking

• Can enhance collaboration capabilities around data and applications – “Facebook for Scientists”

• Facebook Widely adopted• > 400 million users (50% log on to Facebook on any

given day)• > 25 billion pieces of content shared each month• > 550 thousand applications on Facebook Platform

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Collaboration

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• Social networking portal• Initial prototypes built on

Facebook and Ning• Current portal built on Elgg

• Social networking services• Blogs• Tags• Media/document sharing • Wikis • Friends/contacts• Groups• Discussions• Message boards• Calendars• Status• Activity Feeds

http://geochronos.org/

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Applications

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• Interactive Application Service (IAS)• On-line, on-demand access

to scientific applications• Share application sessions

and data with other users• Access control to

applications• Hosted on top of a cloud

computing platform (ASPEN) that can dynamically provision resources on-demand

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Data• Spectral Libraries

• Store, share and browse spectral data

• Manage metadata for spectra• Create and share metadata

schemas• View spectral plots,

metadata, ancillary files and maps

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Work in Progress• Collaboration

• Additional Elgg plugins to further enable collaboration• Publications, presentations ...

• Applications• Batch processing and automated workflow services

• Handle longer running data processing tasks and simulations • Automate data workflows (i.e., mosaic, reproject and subset MODIS data)

• Data• Generalization of spectral library solution

• Acquire, store, manage, browse and share other types of data• Employment of Semantic Web technologies

• better link / relate data and enable ontological mapping between metadata standards

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Portal Usage• Over 75 users from Europe, South America and North

America• Used at IAI International Wireless Sensor Networking

Summer School in Edmonton in July 2009 (~40 participants)

• Used by Tropi-Dry community for collaboration and sharing documents

• Slowly opening up portal to different communities of users as development progresses; public release planned for later this year

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Project Team

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Prinicipal Investigators

Dr. Arturo Sanchez-AzofeifaUniversity of Alberta

Dr. John GamonUniversity of Alberta

Dr. Benoit RivardUniversity of Alberta

Dr. Rob SimmondsUniversity of Calgary

Project CoordinationPlatform Development Domain Scientists

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Virtual Organization

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Contact Information

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Cameron [email protected]://pages.cspc.ucalgary.ca/~kiddlec/

http://geochronos.org/[email protected]

http://grid.ucalgary.ca/ http://ceos.ualberta.ca/http://www.cybera.ca/

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