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An On-line Collaborative Platform for Earth Observation Scientists
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
(http://geochronos.org/)
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Solutions Portal rich with social networking features
Tags, bookmarks, profiles, blogs, wikis Friends/contacts, groups Discussions, message boards, calendars Status, activity feeds
Technology Portal built on top of a social networking platform
Initial prototype built in Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) Secondary prototype built on white label social networking platform Ning
(http://www.ning.com) Current portal built on open source white label social networking platform Elgg
(http://www.elgg.org) Next Steps
Plan to keep using Elgg platform and upgrade as new versions released Develop new Elgg plugins as needed
i.e., plugins for more easily sharing publications and presentations
Collaboration
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Dashboard
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Groups
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Solutions Interactive Application Service (IAS)
On-line, on-demand access to scientific applications Share application sessions and data with other users
Technology IAS is hosted on top of a cloud computing platform
Use ASPEN (http://grid.ucalgary.ca/projects/DataCentre/) which can dynamically provision virtual machines to host applications based on user demand
Next Steps Batch processing and automated workflow services
Handle longer running data processing tasks and simulations Automate data workflows involving data acquisition and
transformation of data into different data products more suitable for use by scientists (i.e., mosaic, reproject and subset MODIS data)
Applications
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Application Catalogue
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Interactive Application Service
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Solutions Spectral Libraries
Store, share and browse spectral data View spectral plots, metadata, ancillary data and maps Manage and generate metadata for spectra Create and share metadata schemas
Technology iRODS (http://www.irods.org/) for data storage/management Semantic Web technologies such as RDF (Resource
Description Framework) to link/relate data Next Steps
Generalization of spectral library solution Acquire, store, manage, browse and share other types of data
MODIS and other satellite data Flux tower and phenology tower data Meteorological data Other data
Data
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Spectral Library - Browse
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Spectral Library - Metadata
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Portal Usage 70 users from Europe, South America and
North America Used at IAI International Wireless Sensor
Networking Summer School in Edmonton in July 2009 (~40 participants)
On-going usage by Tropi-Dry community for collaboration and sharing documents
Slowly opening up portal to different communities of users as development progresses
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Apr 21, 2009 - CANARIE NEP-1 Synergy Workshop (Winnipeg)
Jun 22, 2009 - SpecNet Workshop (Lethbridge) Jun 24-26, 2009 – Meeting of the Collaborative
Research Network II (CRN2) and Small Grant Program for the Human Dimensions (SGP-HD) Principal Investigators (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Jul 6-18, 2009 - IAI International Wireless Sensor Networking Summer School (Edmonton)
Aug 15, 2009 – Elgg Camp (Boston) Oct 14, 2009 – Summit 09 (Banff)
Presentations/Demonstrations
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R. Curry, C. Kiddle and R. Simmonds. Social Networking and Scientific Gateways. To appear in Proceedings of the Grid Computing Environments Workshop, Portland, OR, November 20, 2009.
N. Markatchev, R. Curry, C. Kiddle, A. Mirtchovski, R. Simmonds and T. Tan. A Cloud-based Interactive Application Service. To appear in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Oxford, UK, December 9-11, 2009.
Publications
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Project Team
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Dr. Arturo Sanchez-AzofeifaUniversity of Alberta
Dr. John GamonUniversity of Alberta
Dr. Benoit RivardUniversity of Alberta
Dr. Rob SimmondsUniversity of Calgary
Prinicipal Investigators
Project Coordination Platform Development Domain Scientists
Virtual Organization
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Contact Information
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http://geochronos.org/[email protected]
http://grid.ucalgary.ca/ http://ceos.ualberta.ca/ http://www.cybera.ca/
