Next GEOSS – der neue europäische GEOSS Hub

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J. Meyer-Arnek, A. Müller, G. Schreier

27.10.2016, Oberpfaffenhofen

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NextGEOSS-Konsortium

Kick-Off: 16-18 JAN 2017 Project duration: 42 months 27 Partners 10M€

Objectives

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First General Objective Deliver the next generation data hub and Earth Observation exploitation for innovation and business

Second General Objective Engage communities, promoting innovative GEOSS powered applications from Europe

Third General Objective Advocate (fördern) GEOSS as a sustainable European approach for Earth Observation data distribution and exploitation

Specific Objective 1.1 Implement a single access point, federated data hub and exploitation system for EO data, using state-of-the-art data mining and discoverability techniques

Specific Objective 1.3 Access to the most relevant data sources for Europe, across all major Earth Observation domains

Specific Objective 2.1 Engage the GEO and European communities towards understanding their needs, working together with GEO and Open Data policies

Specific Objective 2.3 Collect feedback, expectations and requirements from the public and private communities

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Generic view of NextGEOSS components

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Generic view of NextGEOSS components

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• Develop a data hub which provides a unique access point to all GEOSS datasets based on a federated approach. Building on the open source product CKAN data connectors will be developed to integrate a multitude of different types of portals.

• Sophisticated data mining and discoverability techniques will make the datasets more easily findable and accessible to both expert users and a much wider user base.

• Systematically capture feedback via the Community Feedback mechanism. • Develop a mechanism to monitor and increase the Quality of Service for the

datasets that are hosted on the various portals.

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http://www.geoportal.org

The Data Hub (WP2) is built on top of CKAN, an already powerful data management system that provides tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data with a system proven through successful mission operations (TRL 9). Data Hub harvesters are demonstrated technology (TRL 6) or in prototype (TRL 7) that will be qualified (WP3) for each EO data infrastructure to be harvested and provide links to the original source.

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NextGEOSS Architecture

ckan

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• Establish a decentralized federated data access system for the different domains (Land, Ocean and Atmosphere).

• Provide access to the Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment opening the door to Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 data as well as for the future atmospheric and climate missions Sentinel-4/-5/-5p.

• Connect with crowdsources (i.e. citizen science activities) • Build up a federated metadata and data architecture in

order to foster improved user-friendly discovery, access and exploitation of Earth observation data and information in Europe

• Support a broad uptake of GEOSS and Copernicus data, information and services

• Connect with commercial data providers, especially for very high resolution and SAR data.

Generic view of NextGEOSS components

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• Manage the cloud platform and enable the access and deployment of data, processing tools and services. It will use the Developer Cloud Sandbox components developed on previous projects (e.g. G-POD, GEOWOW, SenSyF, Co-ReSyF) to provide the capability to access, process and publish comprehensive multi-source, multi-scale and multi-temporal EO datasets. In particular, it aims to:

• Support WP6, WP7 and WP4 for service integration in a distributed Cloud environment. • Obtain indicators and analytics from runtime information from applications using Big

Data analytics techniques and algorithms • Deploy and operate the cloud infrastructure including the provision of ICT resources • Continue the development of a user management component for GEOSS and

demonstrating Single Sign-On across the federation of resources.

Generic view of NextGEOSS components

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• understand the needs of the communities of practice (the users) • engage with the communities of practice and to identify local champions • help the communities to be successful in their roles as Data Providers • build capacity in their understanding of engaging with the GCI and the Open

Data policies • organize the main annual project event (Summits)

• User Engagement / re-inforce engagement of communities / report on project development and showcases the research pilots / demonstrate full system

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− Implement a series of research oriented pilot activities. − Demonstrated the capabilities of NextGEOSS, showcased in the pilots. − Provide feedback for system improvements, collecting the inputs from

pilots’ expectations and experience.

1. initial preparation and setup 2. integration of the pilot activities and development and setup of the catalogue

tools, including data discovery and QoS 3. consolidation and operationalisation of system and pilots 4. consolidation and operationalisation of the system pilots and evolution, with

successive interactions between the system and users 5. wrap up and consolidation of the assessments on the system

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Project Schedule (5 stages)

Open Data Policy

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GEO recognizes that the societal benefits arising from Earth observations can only be fully achieved through the sharing of data, information, knowledge, products and services.

GEO now aims to implement the following GEOSS Data Sharing Principles: data, metadata and products will be shared as Open Data by default, by making them available as part of the GEOSS Data Collection of Open Resources for Everyone (Data-CORE) without charge or restrictions on reuse, subject to the conditions of registration and attribution when the data are reused; … where international instruments, national policies or legislation preclude the sharing of data as Open Data, data should be made available with minimal restrictions on use and at no more than the cost of reproduction and distribution; and all shared data, products and metadata will be made available with minimum time delay.

NextGEOSS focus: • Promote Open Data Policy towards member countries of GEOSS as key aspect for success

of GEOSS • Promote GEOSS as initiative towards external communities • Support better and large scale practical utilization of GEOSS Open data through practical

exercise - Hackathons

Public Outreach: Project Summit

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The main NextGEOSS public events will be the four project Summits (WMO, Geneva): 1st Summit: Engagement of communities, such as data providers, other GEO projects, ongoing European projects (FP7, H2020, etc.) and relevant institutions. Speakers from these institutions will be invited to attend and speak at the event, and a Round Table will be devoted to identifying potential collaboration activities. 2nd Summit will re-inforce the engagement of communities, and will also report on the status of the project’s activities and collaborations with external projects and institutions. 3rd Summit will be to assess and report publicly on the project developments, and showcasing a selection of the most advanced pilot activities as examples of the NextGEOSS system. 4th Summit, will be the final NextGEOSS showcase, and will demonstrate the full system, including pilots and collaboration activities. A final open discussion will conclude the event, focussing on the project follow-up activities and sustainability issues, as well as promoting collaborations post-NextGEOSS.

Innovative + Business Research Pilots

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Innovative Research Pilots: Time Series Analysis for Agricultural Monitoring

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SBA: ‘Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture’ + ‘Biodiversity and Ecosystems Sustainability’

Precursors: OGC Web Services standards development + research activities (FP-7 GeoViQua, OGC TestBed-11, TestBed-12)…

Objectives of Research Pilot: Powerful tools to visualize large time series of global EO-data and derived vegetation products (bio-geophysical parameters) as derived from Copernicus Global Land Service + Tools to unlock and visualize heterogenous in-situ data. Use case does not only focus Web-based solutions but also machine-to-machine interfaces.

Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) are proposed as a layer between biodiversity observation and biodiversity indicators used in policy. There is a need for remote sensing for EBVs to fill the spatial and temporal gaps between in situ observation data in order to build up a global framework for monitoring biodiversity (Pettorelli, 2016). Next GEOSS aim: Integration of high resolution RS-EBVs will be demonstrated for forest and heathland habitats.

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Innovative Research Pilot: Biodiversity

Pilot will be built on the results of the activities currently performed by SatCen in the framework of two Horizon 2020 projects: BigDataEurope (Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing Europe’s Societal Challenges) and EVER-EST (European Virtual Environment for Research - Earth Science Themes). SatCen is a key institution linking Space and Security as well as the GEO Participating Organisation leading the GEO Space and Security Community Activity (CA-23). Next GEOSS aims: • provide tools for detecting and characterizing changes • explore methods for extracting information on changes at different scales • foster extensive exploitation of GEOSS Data Hub

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Innovative Research Pilot: Space and Security

GEO Cold Regions coordinates global efforts to provide Earth Observation (EO) products and services to science, decision- and policy-makers with a vested interest in the cryosphere (in particular) and the environment (in general) of polar regions and mountain areas around the world. The NextGEOSS Cold Regions Pilot will focus on three areas: (1) the Arctic/Svalbard region, (2) Antarctica, and (3) the Himalayan glaciers, and will address the existing shortage in accessing in situ data in GEOSS. We will liaise with ongoing initiatives such as SIOS, GEO-CRI, WMO GCW, as well as national programs in Antarctica . Next GEOSS aims: The focus of the pilot will be on linking together data available in near-real-time (NRT, with up to 1 day delay from measurement, and a target of 1 hour delay) from the targeted regions, including the atmospheric, marine, and terrestrial domains, and make them available in the NextGEOSS Data Hub and the Global Cold Regions Community Portal.

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Innovative Research Pilot: Cold Regions

Since 2007 for the first time in human history more people have lived in cities than in the countryside. According to the United Nations in 2050, around 75% of the worldwide population will be living in cities. The population density, traffic and infrastructure, environmental and energy problems, climate change, migration, demographic change, aspects of vulnerability and sustainability, new forms of mobility and sharing - unprecedented challenges and opportunities are continuously arising. Next GEOSS… … will apply a globally systematic multi-sensor approach combining atmosphere and land data to analyze air pollution variability in megacities and urban agglomerations linked to urban growth rates and population development. Development and impact of the megacities and urban agglomerations will be analyzed and classified according to the requirements of the Societal Benefit Areas “Health” and “Urban Development”. In cooperation with health experts spatio-temporal correlations between health data and air pollution will be discussed and a proposal for health risk indicators will be derived using the NextGEOSS infrastructure.

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Innovative Research Pilot: Air Pollution, Urban Growth+Health Risks in Megacities

• High Resolution Mapping for Territorial Planning • Crop Monitoring supporting Food Security • Smart Cities:

Cities need metrics to measure their performance. The ISO international standards organization is developing a series of standards to support sustainable development and resilience in cities.

• Energy: These following two use-cases contribute to the strategic objectives of GEO advocate, engage and deliver (as proposed in the GEO Strategic plan 2016-2025, Implementing GEOSS):

• Constructing gridded data for grid operators • High Resolution Solar Mapping at Urban Scale

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Business Research Pilots

Thank you!

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