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1. Emerging Approaches to the Integration of Autonomous Heterogeneous Air Quality Information Systems Invited Paper IN13E-01 American Geophysical Union, San Francisco December 11, 2006 Richard Scheffe US Environmental Protection Agency Rudolf B. Husar Washington University, St. Louis

2. Entities participating in AQ information exchannge Unfortunately, the inner working of the IS that links these entities is not yet understood. The challenge posed by R. Scheffe : Please e xplain this Informatics Mess GEOSS Eco-informatics Accountability/ indicators SIPs, nat.rules designations PHASE PM research Risk/exposure assessments AQ forecasting Programs NAAQS setting EPA NOAA NASA NPS USDA DOE Private Sector States/Tribes RPO’s/Interstate Academia NARSTO NAS, CAAAC CASAC, OMB Enviros Organizations CDC Supersites IMPROVE, NCore PM monit, PAMS CASTNET Lidar systems NADP Satellite data Intensive studies PM centers Other networks: SEARCH, IADN.. Data sources CMAQ GEOS-CHEM Emissions Meteorology Health/mort. records

3. Specific AQ Informatics Questions: 2. Is data sharing a viable approach to achieve the convergence & optimization? Common data Client Data Overlaps Monitoring Satellite Modeling 1. Can we integrate air quality information through partnerships ?

4. Infromatics Challenges Science: Understand and explain how IS work Dependencies, driving forces (co-opetition) and processes of IS Engineering: Design of Info Systems Information Flow, SAO, System of Systems Technology: Harnessing and harvesting IT & the web. Web Services, Workflow, Social Software, Google *.* Web2.0, RSS

7. Information System Challenge Refining and delivering information Data Knowledge Public Manager Scientist Users other Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others

8. Agile Information System: Data Access, Processing and Products Data Organizing Document Structure/Format Interfacing Value Adding Processes Public Manager Scientist Users other Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others

9. Agile Information System: Data Access, Processing and Products Data Organizing Document Structure/Format Interfacing Value Adding Processes Homogenizing Format profile Standard access Data as Service Uniform Access Public Manager Scientist Users other Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others

10. Agile Information System: Data Access, Processing and Products Data Organizing Document Structure/Format Interfacing Characterizing Display/Browse Compare/Fuse Characterize Value Adding Processes Homogenizing Format profile Standard access Data as Service Uniform Access Data Processing Web Service Chain Custom Processing SciFlo DataFed Public Manager Scientist Users other Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others

11. Agile Information System: Data Access, Processing and Products Data Analyzing Filter/Integrate Aggregate/Fuse Custom Analysis Organizing Document Structure/Format Interfacing Characterizing Display/Browse Compare/Fuse Characterize Value Adding Processes Homogenizing Format profile Standard access Data as Service Uniform Access Data Processing Web Service Chain Custom Processing SciFlo DataFed Products Reports Forecast Compli. Other Science Public Manager Scientist Users other Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others

12. Value-Adding Processes Data Analyzing Filter/Integrate Aggregate/Fuse Custom Analysis Organizing Document Structure/Format Interfacing Characterizing Display/Browse Compare/Fuse Characterize Reporting Inclusiveness Iterative/Agile Dynamic Report Value Adding Processes Homogenizing Format profile Standard access Data as Service Uniform Access Data Processing Web Service Chain Custom Processing SciFlo DataFed Products Reports Forecast Compli. Other Science Public Manager Scientist Users other Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others

13. Agile Information System: Data Access, Processing and Products Control Data Data Control Seeking Information Providing Information Negotiating & Market Space Uniform Access Data Processing Web Service Chain Custom Processing SciFlo DataFed Products Reports Forecast Compli. Other Science Public Manager Scientist Users other Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others

14. Infromatics Challenges Science: Understand and explain how IS work Dependencies, driving forces (co-opetition), information processes Engineering: Design of Info Systems Information Flow, SAO, System of Systems Technology: Harnessing and harvesting IT & the web. Web Services, Workflow, Social Software, Google *.* Web2.0, RSS

15. Loosely Coupled Data Access through Standard Protocols Standard Data Query Language: Where? When? What? (Space-time query by OGC WMS, WCS) GetCapabilities GetData Capabilities, ‘Profile’ Data Where? When? What? Which Format? Server Back End Std. Interface Client Front End Std. Interface T2 T1 Uniform Access Data Processing Web Service Chain Custom Processing SciFlo DataFed Products Reports Forecast Compli. Other Science Public Manager Scientist Users other Control Data Acquisition Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others Data CF, EOS, OGC CF OGC, ISO OGC, ISO Standards netCDF, HDF.. Format Temperature What? Time When? BBOX Where? GetData Query

16. Web Services and Workflow for Loose Coupling Web Services Triad: Publish – Find – Bind Workflow Software: Dynamic Linking Software Mashups Software Mashup: Coarse-grain Linking Uniform Access Data Processing Web Service Chain Custom Processing SciFlo DataFed Products Reports Forecast Compli. Other Science Public Manager Scientist Users other Control Data Acquisition Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others Data Service Broker Service Provider Publish Find Bind Service User Web Service Interaction Service Chaining & Workflow

17. Collaborative Reporting and Dynamic Delivery Collaborative Analysis and Writing Wiki, Blogs, Group Annotations Dynamic Content Delivery: GoogleEarth, Screencasting… Uniform Access Data Processing Web Service Chain Custom Processing SciFlo DataFed Products Reports Forecast Compli. Other Science Public Manager Scientist Users other Control Data Acquisition Provider NASA DAACs EPA Model EPA AIRNow others Data Co Writing - Wiki ScreenCast

19. Some major AQ Information System Challenges (Same as the DoD, ES Challenges?) Are WCS/WMS Convergence Protocols? Connecting Humans! Right Level of Networking? WCS/WMS App App App App

20. DataFed assumes autonomous data providers Non-intrusively wraps data into web services Provides processing and analysis tools

21. Apparent divergences? Organizations have different missions NASA Explore fundamental Earth System Properties EPA ( Protect human health & envi. Improve air, water, ecosystem NOAA To understand and predict changes in the Earth’s environment and … NPS Protect ecosystems, AQ WQ USDA Protect/optimize Ag and forest resources CDC To promote health and quality of life ….

22. Stars aligned? Collaboration (culture) empire building? Observation technologies {e.g., satellites} Computational power Science, talent {embodied in AQ models and young geniuses } Budgets, agency collaboration resource/program accountability Accountability, ↓ regulatory assessments {e.g., NAS, CASAC} Information technologies {e.g., data sharing protocols} Alignment