ADC Activities

• Registries – Components and Services• Registries – Standards and Interoperability• Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF)• Best Practices Wiki – wiki.ieee-earth.org• GEOSS Workshop Series• Virtual Constellations – ACC is most mature• Sensor Web Development – need for projects• Task Allocations and definitions – also

address co-management of tasks

GEOSS Architecture

GEO PortalStandards and Interoperability

ForumGEOSS

Contributor

Users

GEOSS Clearinghouse

GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Registry

Standards Special Arrangements

ComponentsRegistry

ServicesRegistry

GEOSS Component and Service Registries

GEOSS Components& Services

Community Catalogs

Figure 9 Initial Operating Capabilities of GEO ( Pearlman (2007), Report of the GEO Architecture and Data Committee (ADC) for the GEO Plenary Cape Town)

GEOSS Workshops

GEOSS focus area 2008 Date Location Conf Afiliation

Communications for Disaster management

January 12 US Hawaii PTC 2008

Oceans and water April 7 Kobe Oceans 2008

Air Quality and Health July 2-3 Beijing ISPRS XXI Congress

Air Quality and Coastal Ecosystems July 6 USA-Boston IGARSS08

Science Modeling and Data Policy Sep 14 Quebec, Canada Oceans 08 Quebec

Water security and Ecosystems Oct 27 ACCRA Ghana AARSE

Architecture of GEOSS Dec 6-7 London OGC Plenary