Architecture Implementation Pilot
Summary of CFP Responses
Version: 23 May 2007
Summary Compiled by the
OGC Interoperability Program Team for the AI Pilot
Corentin Guillo, ASTRIUM
Josh Lieberman, Traverse
Ingo Simonis, Freelancer
George Percivall, OGC
Architecture Implementation Pilot - Summary of CFP Responses
Architecture Implementation Pilot
Summary of CFP Responses
This document provides a summary of the Responses to a Call for Participation (CFP) in
the Architecture Implementation Pilot. The CFP was issued on 13 April 20071. The CFP
invited organizations to identify components and services, to participate in confirming the
interoperability of the services and collaboratively demonstrate the services in societal
benefit scenarios.
This summary is organized in four categories:
- Organizational Responses
- Interoperability Arrangements and Components
- Scenarios Development
- Architecture Development
Organizational Responses
 32 responses were received. As many proposals included contributions from multiple
organizations: there were a total of 97 organizations responding to the CFP.
 Responses were received from government agencies, academia and national
laboratories, and commercial organizations.
 Responses were received predominantly from Europe and North America. At least
one response from organizations in each of Asia, Africa and South America.
 Responses to the Pilot CFP will continue to accepted until the Kickoff Meeting for
participation in the Initial Operating Capability. After the Kickoff meeting
components will be sought to complete the scenarios. The GEOSS Component
Registration process will continue in parallel with the Pilot.
 For more information see Table 1– Responding Organizations
 Figure 1 - Logos of AI Pilot
Interoperability Arrangements and Components
 Consistent references to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based upon web
services as defined by OASIS and W3C for both SOAP and REST styles.
 Multiple instances of all components of the Engineering Viewpoint (CFP Annex B,
Section 5) were proposed in the responses, except for GEONETCast
1 The CFP document is at these links:
http://www.earthobservations.org/docs/CFP_GEOSS_AR-07-02_11.4.2007.pdf
http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=20953.
All of the CFP Responses are available in a single zip archive:
http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=21575
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Multiple Reponses for the GEO Web Portal were received. Several responses were
received for the GEOSS Clearinghouse although the technical approach needs to be
further developed.
Interoperability Arrangements with numerous mentions:
o CSW including ebRIM and ISO Profiles
o Web Map Service (WMS)
o Web Coverage Service (WCS)
o Web Feature Service (WFS)
o EO profiles of GML, CSW, SPS
Interoperability Arrangements with multiple mentions:
o Metadata forma standards: ISO 19115, 19139
o Metadata format standard: FGDC
o Z39.50, ISO 23950, OGC CAT Z39.50 binding
o Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
o Sensor Planning Service (SPS)
o Workflow, Orchestration, BPEL
o Web Processing Services (WPS)
o Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
o Web Coordinate Transformation Service (WCTS)
o NetCDF, CF conventions
Interoperability Arrangements with mentions:
o CSML, Darwin Core, DDMS, geoTIFF, OPeNDAP, Sensor ML, SLD,
Transducer Markup Language, WMC
For more information see Table 2– Services and Components by Respondent
Scenarios Development
For specifics see: Table 3– Scenario Support by Respondent
The following lists the number of responses mentioning participation or support of the
various scenarios:
 Disasters Reduction and Prevention of Disasters – 23
o Wildfires in Africa – 8 – Africa
o Tanker oil spill – 4 – Atlantic coast of Europe
o Flooding/Land Slides – 4 – several geographic locations.
 Ecosystem and biodiversity – 19
o Specific to Africa – 5
o Specific to Polar – 4
 Climate Change – 14
o Local Effects – 5
o Reconnaissance scenario for the Polar Arctic
 Other
o Energy Management – 4
o Weather Forecasting – 4
o Air Quality – 3
o Water – Management and Food Security – 3
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Agriculture – 2
Hurricane response
Land cover / land use change.
Marine geohazard disaster (slope failure and associated tsunami)
Architecture Development
For specifics see: Table 4– Architecture Development Contributions
 Enhance and contribute to architecture as defined in CFP Annex B
o Standards-based geospatial engineering.
o SOA based systems
o Sequence diagram development
o Conceputal schemas and encodings:
o Integration and testing experience
o Discussions and experiments related to interoperability arrangements.
 Representation and experience with standards developing organizations
o Based on experience authoring and using standards,
o Current participation in international SDOs: OGC and ISO TC211.
 Representation and experience with spatial data infrastructures, INSPRIE, FGDC,
 Comments to increase expectation to SBA support – User Interfaces, Business
Processes, Data access
This Summary will be used to develop the agenda for the Pilot Kickoff Meeting to be
held June 5 & 6 at the ESRIN facility of the European Space Agency. Information and
registration is available here: http://www.congrex.nl/07m22/
The CFP responses are summarized in the following tables:
Table 1– Responding Organizations ................................................................................... 5
Table 2– Services and Components by Respondent ......................................................... 12
Table 3– Scenario Support by Respondent ....................................................................... 20
Table 4– Architecture Development Contributions .......................................................... 24
Table 5– Notes .................................................................................................................. 26
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Table 1– Responding Organizations
Se = Services, Sc = Scenarios, Ar = Architecture
Short
Name
Organizations listed on the Title page
Primary submitting organization, followed by
collaborating organizations.
Contacts:
First contact is the official organizational
contact
Se
Sc
Ar
Pilot
Argon/IM
Argon ST
Image Matters LLC
Lin Haas Lin.Haas@argonst.com
Steve Havens Steve.Havens@argonst.com
John Davidson Johnd@imagemattersllc.com
Yes
No
Yes
GEOSS
BKG
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) (Federal
Agency for Cartography and Geodesy) (Germany)
Juergen Walther juergen.walther@bkg.bund.de
Yes
Yes
Yes
GEOSS
Compusult
Compusult
Robert Thomas, rthomas@compusult.net,
Larry Bouzane, larry@compusult.net,
Yes
Yes
-
All
Cranfield
Cranfield University
National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI)
Dr Stephen Hallett, : s.hallett@cranfield.ac.uk, +44
(0) 1234 750111 Switchboard (ext. 2750)
Andrew Rayner, +44 (0) 1234 750111
Switchboard (ext. 2774)
Yes
Yes
No
GEO
EC/JRC
European Commission - Joint Research Centre
Institute for Environment and Sustainability
* Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit
** Global Environmental Monitoring Unit
Alessandro Annoni, alessandro.annoni@jrc.it,
Alan Belward, alan.belward@jrc.it,
Yes
Yes
Yes
GEO
ESA et.al.
FedEO
European Space Agency – ESA
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana –ASI ; French Space Agency –
CNES; Canadian Space Agency – CSA; German Space
Agency – DLR; European Space Agency – ESA; European
Union Satellite Centre – EUSC; EUMETSAT; Food and
Agriculture Organization of the UN - FAO; Spot Image; IGN
- Institut Géographique National France; Institute of
Methodologies for Environmental Analysis – IMAA - of the
Italian National Research Council – CNR ; European Space
Imaging - EUSI; Spacebel ; GIM; IONIC Software; EADS
Astrium – ASTF; Infoterra Ltd – ITUK; Intecs SpA; Scisys
Pier Giorgio Marchetti, ESRI,
Pier.Giorgio.Marchetti@esa.int
Joylon Martin, ESRI, Jolyon.Martin@esa.int
Yes
Yes
Yes
FedEO
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Short
Name
Organizations listed on the Title page
Primary submitting organization, followed by
collaborating organizations.
Contacts:
First contact is the official organizational
contact
Se
Sc
Ar
Pilot
ESA/FAO
Portal
European Space Agency – ESA
Hermann Ludwig Moeller hmoeller@esa.int and
Jolyon Martin jolyon.martin@esa.int
John Latham (John.Latham@fao.org) and
Jeroen Ticheler (Jeroen.Ticheler@fao.org)
Y
Y
N
GEOSS
ESONET,
et.al.
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la
Mer
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia; Konsortium
Deutsche Meeresforschung; National Oceanography
Centre, Southampton; Hellenic Centre for Marine
Research; Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor
Onderzoek der Zee; Marine Institute ; Fundação da
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de; Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas; University of
Tromso, Faculty of Science ; Göteborg Universitet;
International University Bremen; DFG-Research Center
Ocean Margins RCOM-MARUM of the Universitaet Breme;
The University Court of the University of Aberdeen
Dr Roland Person, IFREMER,
roland.person@ifremer.fr
Yes
Yes
No
GEOSS
ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
con terra GMBH
Jeanne Foust: jfoust@esri.com
Y
Y
Y
GEOSS,
FEDO,
TriLat
FGDC
U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee Secretariat
Douglas Nebert, ddnebert@fgdc.gov
Y
Y
Y
GEOSS
Tri-Lat
GBIF et.al.
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Secretariat
CNR-IMAA / University of Florence, University of Helsinki /
Finnish Museum of Natural History, and the University of
Ottawa
Eamonn O Tuama, GBIF, eotuama@gbif.org
Stefano Nativi, CNR-IMAA, native@imaa.cnr.it
Hannu Saarenmaa, CFER,
hannu.saarenmaa@luomus.fi
Yes
Yes
Yes
GeoConnec
tions
GeoConnections Canada
Mohamed Habbane: mhabbane@NRCan.gc.ca
Terry Fisher: tfisher@NRCan.gc.ca
Mike Adair: adair@NRCan.gc.ca
Y
Y
Y
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
(FAO)
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FedEO
Tri-Lat
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Short
Name
Organizations listed on the Title page
Primary submitting organization, followed by
collaborating organizations.
Contacts:
First contact is the official organizational
contact
Se
Sc
Ar
Pilot
GEOmon
GEOmon is a European FP6 project coordinated by the
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement
(LSCE) at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, France
P. Ciais, LSCE, philippe.ciais@cea.fr,
C. Textor, LSCE, christiane.textor@lsce.ipsl.fr,
Yes
Yes
No
GEO
GMU
Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems
(CSISS), George Mason University
Prof. Liping Di, ldi@gmu.edu, +1301-982-0795
Yes
Yes
Yes
GEO,
FedEO?
INCOSE
International Council On System Engineering (INCOSE)
INCOSE AIP Architectural and Interoperability Arrangement
Development (AIAD) Program
Lawrence E. McGovern
Lawrence.McGovern@ngc.com
N
N
Y
GEOSS
JPL
Cartographic Applications Laboratory, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Nevin A. Bryant Nevin.A.Bryant@jpl.nasa.gov
Yes
Yes
No
GEO.
FedEO
Meraka
et.al.
ICT4EO group of the Meraka Institute, part of CSIR,
Pretoria, South Africa,
52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software
GmbH, Muenster, Germany; and the Institute for
Geoinformatics of the University of Muenster, Germany
(IFGI).
Terence van Zyl, tvz@meraka.org.za, +27 12 831
2171
Simon Jirka, jirka@uni-muenster.de, +49 251 83
31962
Yes
Yes
No
GEO
MinesParis
Ecole des Mines de Paris, Center for Energy and
Processes
Thierry Ranchin, thierry.ranchin@ensmp.fr,
Yes
Yes
No
GEO
Lucien Wald, Lionel Ménard
NASA
Geosciences Interoperability Office, Goddard Space Flight
Center, NASA
Myra Bambacus, NASA,
myra.j.bambacus@nasa.gov
Nadine Alameh, NASA,
Nadine.s.alameh@nasa.gov
Yes
Yes
Yes
NOAA/
EOG
Earth Observation Group,
NOAA-NESDIS National
Geophysical Data Center
Christopher D. Elvidge, chris.elvidge@noaa.gov
Ben Tuttle (ben.tuttle@noaa.gov)
Yes
Yes
No
GEOSS
NOAA/
Hazards
NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC - World Data Center Solid Earth
Geophysics
Colorado Institute for Research in the Environmental
Sciences
John Cartwright
Susan McLean
Kelly Stroker
Yes
Yes
No
GEO
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Short
Name
Organizations listed on the Title page
Primary submitting organization, followed by
collaborating organizations.
Contacts:
First contact is the official organizational
contact
Se
Sc
Ar
Pilot
OSIRIS
et.al.
THALES Communications SA
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster ; (Institute for
Geoinformatics); APS GmbH; Vlaamse Instelling voor
Technologisch Onderzoek n.v.; GMV SA; Thales Research
& Technology (UK) Ltd; Fondazione per il Clima e la
Sostenibilita; Laboratorio per la Meteorologia e la
Modellistica Ambientale; Hydrogeotechnika SP.ZOO; ESYS
PLC; Réseau Euro-Méditerranéen d'Information et de
FORmation à la gestion des risques; Stadt Aachen
(Feuerwehr Aachen); Autobuses Urbanos de Valladolid
S.A; Regione Toscana;
Danielle Tacyniak, THALES,
Danielle.tacyniak@fr.thalesgroup.com
Simon Jirka, University of MÜNSTER, jirka@unimuenster.de
Yes
Yes
Yes
GEOSS
Public
Warning
U.S. Geological Survey
Eliot Christian, echristian@usgs.gov, +1 571-2128294
Yes
Yes
No
GEO
SDSC
Science Research & Development (ScienceR&D), of San
Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of
California San Diego (UCSD). Projects: the Geosciences
Network (GEON) and the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information
System (CUAHSI HIS).
Chaitanya Baru, baru@sdsc.edu
Ilya Zaslavsky, zaslavsk@sdsc.edu
Y
Y
Y
GEOSS
SERVIR
Regional Visualization & Monitoring System (SERVIR)
NASA, the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin
America (CATHALAC), the Central American Commission
for the Environment & Development (CCAD), the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), the Nature
Conservancy, the World Bank, and other partner
institutions.
Daniel Irwin, Daniel.Irwin@nasa.gov, +1(256) 9617945
Yes
Yes
No
GEOSS
STFC et.al
Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
British Atmospheric Data Centre and NERC Earth
Observation Data Centre
Andrew Woolf A.Woolf@rl.ac.uk,
Bryan Lawrence B.N.Lawrence@rl.ac.uk,
Matt Pritchard M.J.Pritchard@rl.ac.uk
Yes
Yes
Yes
FedEO
TASF
Thales Alenia Space – France
WIN Project – confunded by EC DG INFSO
Christian ALEGRE
Hugues SASSIER
Yes
Yes
Yes
FedEO
GEOSS
Francisco Delgado,
Francisco.Delgado@cathalac.org, (507) 317-3200
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Short
Name
Organizations listed on the Title page
Primary submitting organization, followed by
collaborating organizations.
Contacts:
First contact is the official organizational
contact
Se
Sc
Ar
Pilot
Ukraine
Space Research Institute (SRI) of NASU-NSAU
National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU)
Dr. Oleg Fedorov, NASU-NSAU.
Prof. Nataliia Kussul, SRI of NASU-NSAU
Yes
Yes
No
GEO
Unidata
Unidata Program Center of the University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research (UCAR). UCAR is the not-for-profit
corporate home of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR)
Ben Domenico ben@unidata.ucar.edu
Yes
No
No
US Dept of
State
U.S. Department of State
Humanitarian Information Unit
Gene Dixon dixong@state.gov
Yes
Yes
No
UT/JAXA
The University of Tokyo (UT)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Satoko Horiyama MIURA (Ms.)
miura.satoko@jaxa.jp
Yes
Yes
No
WashUniv
Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis
(CAPITA), Washington University in St. Louis
Rudolf B. Husar, rhusar@me.wustl.edu
Yes
Yes
Yes
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GEOSS
Figure 1 - Logos of AI Pilot CFP Responding Organizations
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Table 2– Services and Components by Respondent
Short name
Interoperability Arrangements
Data content, e.g., geographic region, theme
Argon/IM
Sensor Observation Service
Sensor Planning Service
Transducer Markup Language
Community Portal: “userSmarts” – SOS, SPS, WFS, WMS
and a OGC “data registry”; OASIS and W3C Web Services.
Relevant data (determined by the operational scenarios) using an OGCapproved open international standard (TML).
Community Portal: “userSmarts” access public internet services (e.g., JPL
satellite imagery, National Map, NWS feeds) and custom “back office” GIS
system and data such as real-time weather maps, CAP alerts, GeoRSS
feeds and orthoimagery services.
BKG
Geoportal catalog service – OGC recommendation “ISO
19115/19119 application profile for CSW 2.0”.
Cascading WMS 1.1.1. It can be configured topical as e.g.
for protected areas (see www.geoportal.Bund.de)
Basic geoinformation, environment, biota, farming, climatology, society
(statistics), water, …
Compusult
WFS, WCS, WMS, WMC, CSW, GML, SLD, CAT 2.0.2,
OGC Filter Encoding, WFS-G, SOS, SPS
Metadata Standards:
• ISO 19115
• FGDC GEOProfile
• DDMS (Department of Defense Discovery Metadata
Standard)
Web Portal Solution
Clearinghouse Gateway called MetaMiner to access remote
services via Z39.50 and WFS-T
SmartBay community portal provides ocean mapping, integrated ocean
management and spatial data infrastructure in a single portal environment
Geographic region: Placentia Bay, NL, Canada
Cranfield
WMS
Catalogue (but not fully compliant to CSW, it seems)
Land Information System, a portal based solution to alter
and access data sets
Soil and land resource survey mapping and associated soil property data
Geographic region: Africa
(No mention in response of geo-area. Quick review of website seems to
indicate Germany data.)
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Short name
Interoperability Arrangements
Data content, e.g., geographic region, theme
EC/JRC
INSPIRE GeoPortal:
CSW 2.0, ISO AP and ebRIM AP partly
WMS, WCS
Africa:
Africa Observatory for Sustainable Development, available as portal
solution. Decoupling into services unclear.
Data: WMS on protected areas, land cover, WFS on park data, WCS data
Europe:
WMS providing multispectral and panchromatic imagery, soil information,
soil erosion risk, and organic carbon content of Europe
INSPIRE catalogue includes multiple catalogues from EU member
countries.
Geographic region: Africa, Europe
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Short name
Interoperability Arrangements
Data content, e.g., geographic region, theme
ESA et.al. FedEO
ESA :
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Collection and Service Discovery Service CSW
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EO Product Catalogue Service CSW
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Service Orchestration (BPEL)
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WebMap Service and Portrayal Services WMS

Web Feature Service (Transactional) WFS
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Web Coverage Client and Server WCS
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The Service Support Environment which includes the
conformance testing environment used in the context of the
HMA and HMA Testbed Projects. SSE
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Test endpoints for:
o Collection and service discovery CSW2.0, ISO AP
CSW2.0, ISO Ext Pack CSW2.0
o EO product Catalogue Search GML AP for EO,
ebRIM Ext Pack for EO
o EO Product Programming Service SPS for EO
o EO Product Order Service Ordering Interface for
EO
SPOTIMAGE :
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EO Product Catalogue Service CSW2.0
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Web Coverage Service WCS
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Web Coordinate Transformation Service WCTS
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EO Product Programming Service SPS
IMAA :
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WCS 1.0 – 1.1 client and Server
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CSW ebRIM client and Server
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WMS 1.1
GMES Preparatory activities with the purpose of defining the
interoperability concept across the ground segments of the European,
Canadian and third party missions which will contribute to the Global
Monitoring for Environment and Security – GMES Programme initial
phase.
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Catalogue Clearinghouse
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GI-go by IMAA - a catalog clearinghouse: data
discovery, evaluation, query distribution and mediation of
several well-known catalog systems,
EADS ASTRIUM :
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WMS 1.1.1 Client
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SPS
INFOTERRA UK :

WMS Client and Server
ARC :
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CSW
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WCS
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WMS
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Online data access (Portal)
IONIC :
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RedSpider Image Archive CSW, WMS, WCS
Framework
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Short name
Interoperability Arrangements
Data content, e.g., geographic region, theme
ESA/FAO Portal
• OGC Catalogue Service CSW ISO API profile
• WMS client will be integrated
access to catalogues in framework of FEDEO
information provided by GEOportal is targeted to meet the needs of the
nine GEO Societal Benefit Areas.
For each SBA and/or location the user will be provided with locally
available sample data sets and search capabilities
GeoNetwork opensource
GEOportal will be based on open source.
Interface to GEONetcast is under discussion
ESONET, et.al.
Implementation of services planned, but no concrete
information is given.
Biogeochemical data from polluting wrecks; Geographic region: Europe
Biogeochemical data, Geographic region: Porcupine Seabight/ Porcupine
Abyssal (Atlantic, NW-Europe)
Biogeochemical data; Geographic region: Fram Strait (Atlantic ocean
between Greenland and Europe)
ESRI
A web-portal
Viewer web application able to consume OGC WMS, WFS,
and WCS services
OGC CS-W: OGCCORE, ebRIM application profiles in
addition to the ISO 23950 protocol.
ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Image Server as OGC WMS
and WCS
General, Non-specific
FGDC
OGC Catalogue Service specification Version 2.0.1 and its
multiple protocols and profiles.
GEOSS Registries (AR-07-01) provide a yellow pages of
organizations, services, and the operators of those
services.
Geospatial One-Stop – to provide access to data and services registered
in the United States.
Seeks to collaborate on the enhancement of the GeoNetwork software
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Short name
Interoperability Arrangements
Data content, e.g., geographic region, theme
GBIF et.al.
GBIF :

Data portal

Data cache

UDDI

WMS & WFS planned

Standards (Darwin Core, ABCD Schema, DiGIR,
TAPIR)
CNR-IMAA :

Catalog clearing house (WCS, WMS, CSW/ebRIM)

OpenModeler server publishing its SOAP based IF.

AJAX interface for access and interact with both
previous services
Biodiversity, Africa
OASIS UDDI, XML, W3C HTTP XHTML CSS, REST,
EcmaScript, WMS, WFS, BIS/TDWG
GeoConnections
CS/W, Z39.50 GEO, WMS, WFS, Web Portal,
Community Map Builder open source Client
Remote databases as “community catalogues”
Africa, Polar Arctic, climate change, open water, models, AVHRR
Canadian landmass, primarily to the Polar Ecosystems and Biodiversity
scenarios.
Most of the components proposed are operational systems and so would
persist beyond the Pilot activities.
GEOmon
Data access services (interface not specified; SWE?)
Web portal for data access
BUT: Not established before October 2007!
Data on atmospheric composition: long-lived greenhouse gases, (b)
reactive gases, (c) aerosols and (d) stratospheric ozone
Air Quality, climate change, human health and epidemiology, energy
management, weather forcasting, ecosystems, agriculture, biodiversity
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Short name
Interoperability Arrangements
Data content, e.g., geographic region, theme
GMU
MPGC : WCS, WMS, WFS, CSW/ebRIM and GML
SWE : SPS, SOS
CSW Federation : CSW ISO and ebRIM profile
CSW ebRIM server
WCS server
WFS server
WMS server
WCTS
WPS
WICS Geoprocessing services (Image clipping,
classification & overlay, feature clipping, a.o.)
Workflow engine BPEL WSDL SOAP GML…
WCS: Landsat MSS/TM/ETM data at 15, 30, and 70 meter resolution for
years 1975, 1990, and 2000, DEM
Geographic region: global
WFS: the world (country-level) and U.S. (state & county level) political
boundaries
Africa …
INCOSE
(No specific contributions in this area)
JPL
WPS: Co-registration and orthorectification, change
detection and time series analysis of satellite imagery
(supports Landsat and ASTER from Terra, might be
extended)
none
Meraka et.al.
SWE (SOS)
Fire observation service
Weather observation service
Geographic region: South Africa
MinesParis
Data access and catalog service via web portal only
Wide range of data, e.g. solar radiation, temperature, sky types,
Photosynthetically Available Radiation, and others, but available at web
portal only
Geographic region: global
NASA
SWE (SOS, SPS, SAS, Sensor ML)
CSW
WCTS
WPS
WCS, WMS, WFS
Workflow
ESG Catalog
Socioeconomic data for the US
Gridded Population of the World (GPWv3)
Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMPv1 alpha)
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Short name
Interoperability Arrangements
Data content, e.g., geographic region, theme
NOAA/ EOG
image data will be in WMS and WCS.
Africa
1) Near real time visible and thermal band mosaics from the DMSP
Operational Linescan System.
2) Near real time fire detections from nighttime DMSP data
3) Lunar cycle cloud-free composites of nighttime lights.
4) Annual cloud-free composites of nighttime lights.
5) impervious surface areas (ISA).
6) Year 2004-2006 sub-national poverty estimates.
NOAA/ Hazards
WMS
WFS (fully available end of 2007)
Tsunami and earthquake data incl. bathymetric–topographic DEM
Geographic region: global
OSIRIS et.al.
SWE
Public Warning
Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
RSS
ISO 23950
CAP messages on RSS, content:
Earthquakes,
Geographic region: global
U.S. Volcano Updates, Watches, Warnings, and Advisories from the U.S.
National Weather Service
Geographic region: US
SDSC
WMS/WFS services, with several of these services being
operational at the time of writing.
GEON provides portal technology to support the GEOSS
portal. Alternatively, GEON portlets may be deployed in the
GEOSS portal.
Geologic and geophysical spatial information and various hydrologic
observational data.
Additional datasets will be exposed as OGC-compliant services during
summer.
SERVIR
1) GEO Web Portal solutions, available for free installations,
including, potentially at or on behalf of the GEO Secretariat.
Neither SERVIR nor its implementing agencies serve as a developer of
software solutions,
2) GEOSS Clearinghouse available for free installation,
including, potentially at or on behalf of the GEO Secretariat.
land, sea and atmosphere of Mesoamerica.
FGDC metadata, ISO 19115 being considered
Also access near-real time and recent satellite data: AirSAR, JERS1,
LandSat, MASTER, MODIS, SRTM
WMS
Forecasts: a variety of atmospheric variable
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Short name
Interoperability Arrangements
Data content, e.g., geographic region, theme
STFC et.al
WMS, WCS
CF-compliant netCDF
GML Application Profile for EO Products based on our
experience developing CSML
data used by the IPCC in preparing its climate change Assessment
Reports.
made available for the first time via open, standard, interoperable service
interfaces.
STFC et.al
WMS, WCS
GML AP for EO
Climate data
TASF
CSW (ebRIM and ISO), WMS, WFS, WCS, SPS, On-line
Data Access, Satellite Multicast Service, Service
Orcheistration, Processing Services, WCTS, Alert Services
Oil Spill Monitoring off the coast of Spain and France.
Ukraine
Web Map Service 1.1.1
Web Coverage Service 1.0
CSW using GeoNetwork
Metadata: ISO19115 and ISO19139
Alert Services
Sensor Observation Services
Unidata
WCS, OPeNDAP, NetCDF Subset Services
geoTIFF and CF-netCDF

High-resolution weather forecast service of Ukraine (and neighbor
countries)

Biodiversity monitoring of North Black Sea coast region

Catalog service of geospatial data of Ukrainian organizations
Weather data from:

Global Forecast System (GFS)

North American Model (NAM)

Rapid Update Cycle (RUC)

US NWS National Digital Forecast Database
UT/JAXA
Catalog services
ISO19115(19139) compliant view of the various collections
(dataset series).
WCS for are offered.
JAXA Earth observation satellite data
Wash. Univ
WMS,
WCS
air quality (AQ) decision making.
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Table 3– Scenario Support by Respondent
Short name
Societal Benefit Area - Scenario:
from CFP Annex B 2.6 or other
Contribution to scenarios
Argon/IM
Do not address any particular area.
All SWE related SBA, e.g. Reduction and Prevention of
Disasters, Energy Management, Climate Change, Water
Management, Weather Forecasting, Ecosystems,
Agriculture
Do not address any scenario in particular.
All SWE related scenarios, i.e. Tanker Oil Spill, Wild Fire, Climate Change
BKG
Not specified
Not specified
Compusult
All nine, most significantly Reduction and Prevention of
Disasters and Ecosystems
Tanker Oil Spill: SmartBay portal to ocean data (pre-configured portal that
matches scenario almost perfectly)
Cranfield
Ecosystems
Ecosystems and biodiversity: Africa
EC/JRC
Ecosystems
Ecosystems and biodiversity: Africa
ESA et.al. FedEO
A specific list of user scenarios will be discussed at the kick
off meeting.
European, Canadian and third party satellite missions which will contribute
to GMES.
ESA et.al. FedEO
Oil Spill Tanker Disaster scenario
Data, service, client and portal providers
ESA/FAO Portal
GEOPortal is already structured according to SBAs.
GEOPortal is structured according to SBAs. It identifies services for each
SBA in support to user needs. This includes sample data sets which
illustrate which data can support services and applications.
Water – Food Security, Disasters Management – Floods
Early Warning, Climate Change
ESONET, et.al.
Ecosystems,
Climate Change,
Reduction and Prevention of Disasters
ESONET, et.al.
Tanker Oil Spill –
Global Change : local effects
Tanker Oil Spill: Provide mobile observatories
Global Change (local effects): Deep sea observatory
Polar: Data from a deep sea observatory
Propose new scenario: Area: Marine Disaster; Topic: Slope failure and
subsequent tsunami
Tanker oil spill : by providing a monitoring system of polluting wrecks
based on the deployment of a set of subsea stations integrated in an
acoustic network and communicating with shore through a radio link
(Mobile Observatory - ROSE system).
Ecosystem and biodiversity : Polar
Global change: local effects : by studying the implementation of deep sea
observatory at key location such as Porcupine in the North East Atlantic
New scenario: Marine geohazard disaster (slope failure and
associated tsunami)
Ecosytems and biodiversity: Polar : by studying the implementation of a
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deep sea observatory in a polar site (Hausgarten).
New scenario: Marine geohazard disaster : Africa – South Europe
ESRI
web-portal built supports creating so-called channel pages
that contain references to key resources for the Societal
Benefit Areas.
Aid in using portal to demonstrate scenarios
FGDC
Arctic and African ecosystems and biodiversity scenarios.
Will offer individual experts and project representatives to collaborate on
the scenarios
polar stereographic view needed for Arctic
GBIF et.al.
Climate change : Species to extinction
Biodiversity data in the context of climate change
GeoConnections
Climate Change reconnaissance scenario for the Polar
Arctic;
Define a detailed Polar Arctic Scenario; including IPY
Data: Climate change impact models, Caribou migrations corridors,
Ecoregions AVHRR ,DEM, Protected areas,snow covered areas,
monitoring stations, Typonomy
Africa, Polar Arctic scenario development
GEOmon
Climate change (local effects)
Ecosystems and biodiversity: Africa
Ecosystems and biodiversity: Polar
New: Human Health and Epidemiology- Air Quality
Data center, data interface, Web Portal
GMU
All of them with preference to WildFire Scenario
Services portal, catalog and registration, data access services,
geoprocessing services, wokflow design, execution service
INCOSE
(No specific contributions in this area)
JPL
Ecosystems and biodiversity : Africa
Support Africa Observatory for Sustainable Development: prepare timeseries co-registered image stacks of areas of interest to the analysis team
using Landsat, ASTER, and possibly the Disaster Monitoring Constellation
(DMC).
Meraka et.al.
Reduction and Prevention of Disasters
Energy Management,
Climate Change,
Weather Forecasting,
Ecosystems
South Africa
MinesParis
Energy Management,
Climate Change,
Weather Forecasting,
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Ecosystems
NASA
Wildfire Scenario
The NASA team will participate in Pilot coordination meetings,
teleconferences, and Email distributions.
NOAA/ Hazards
Reduction and Prevention of Disasters
- (Tsunami)
NOAA/EOG
Wildfire Scenario:
Ecosystem and Biodiversity-Africa Scenario
Reduction and Prevention of Disasters
Energy Management,
contribute data services in support of the pilot scenarios on wildfires and
ecosystems and biodiversity: Africa.
OSIRIS et.al.
Reduction and Prevention of Disasters
Contribute to scenario development in general
Public Warning
Any disaster scenario
Assistance to participant to make use of available CAP alert services or to
establish new CAP services
SDSC
(1) wildfire disaster, (2) tanker oil spill, and (3) local climate
change.
SERVIR
(i) wildfires, (ii) tanker oil spills, (iii) the local effects of
climate change, and (iv) the Africa ecosystems &
biodiversity scenario.
Mesoamerica
Scenarios illustrate the chain of events regarding decision-making
Propose: (i) flooding, (ii) hurricane response, and (iii) land
cover / land use change.
Stemming from scenario development, pilots can be replicated in the
events of actual extreme events
STFC et.al
Climate Change – Local Effects
UEA Climatic Research Unit Global Climate Dataset
IS92 GCM Climate Scenarios
SRES GCM Climate Scenarios
TASF
Reduction and Prevention of Disasters
Ecosystems
Already analyzed oil spill scenario in WIN project.
Refine scenario, identify data, define workflow.
Prestige case accident – Actor from spain and france
Ukraine
Disaster – Flooding
Flooding event occurring near the city or infrastructures.
Unidata
Ecosystems,
Climate Change,
Reduction and Prevention of Disasters
Wildfire
Tanker Oil Spill
US Dept of State
flood event in the Horn of Africa.
Humanitarian Information
UT/JAXA
“Reduction and Prevention of Disasters”, “Climate Change”,
“Water Management”, “Weather Forecasting”,
“Ecosystems”, “Agriculture” and “Biodiversity”
ALOS emergency observation
Data: ALOS, TRMM/PR, Aqua/AMSR-E
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New: Land slide due to heavy rain in the Philippines
Wash. Univ
Realtime Smoke Event Analysis
Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollutants
Air Quality Data Sets
scientific and technical analysis,
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Table 4– Architecture Development Contributions
Short name
Contribution to architecture development: e.g., UML development, Interoperability Arrangements, etc
Argon/IM
Argon –experience in authoring and using international standards
Image Matters – available on a consultative basis. Providing standards-based geospatial engineering services and
technology solutions. In key roles for OGC, FGDC, FEMA, and DHS
BKG
With the background of our experience in implementing and installing a SOA based system (see figure 1) similar to the
architecture of the pilot we can support you in the refinement of this architecture.
Compusult
Cranfield
EC/JRC
INSPIRE directive and implementation rules provided to ensure convergence and harmonization with GEOSS.
Review of architecture and interoperability arrangements based on INSPIRE specifications and experiences.
ESA et.al. FedEO
(No specific contributions in this area)
ESA/FAO Portal
(No specific contributions in this area)
ESONET, et.al.
ESRI
ESRI will dedicate skilled technical resources and subject matter experts to support and demonstrate the suggested Web
Portal Solution(s) requirements and integration efforts.
FGDC
FGDC proposes to enhance and contribute to the sequence diagrams from Annex B based on the progress and activities
in the scenarios and Pilot. These are archetypes of geospatial services interaction and are worth publicizing to reinforce
the capabilities.
FGDC is a member of the US INCITS L1, through the INCITS activity, the FGDC participates on the ISO TC 211. FGDC
Secretariat, through the U.S. Geological Survey, is a Strategic Member of the OGC
GBIF et.al.
Comments to increase expectation to SBA support – User Interfaces, Business Processes, Data access
GeoConnections
active role in discussions and experiments related to interoperability arrangements.
GEOmon
GMU
Workflow description and execution using BPEL engine and workflow designer
INCOSE
Procedures for contribution for the refinement of the architecture and interoperability arrangements of the GEOSS
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Short name
Contribution to architecture development: e.g., UML development, Interoperability Arrangements, etc
JPL
No FedEO architecture
Meraka et.al.
MinesParis
NASA
The team will participate in sensor web architecture definition and refinement activities as part of the wildfire scenario
planning exercise.
The ESG team will register the ESG catalog and portal (as well as any other supporting NASA services) in the GEOSS
clearinghouse. The team will also support a connection to the GEOSS clearinghouse, and will leverage that connection in
the ESG portal.
NOAA/ Hazards
NOAA/EOG
(No specific contributions in this area)
OSIRIS et.al.
Contribution to improvement of standards and definition of the general architecture: Accessibility, Flexibility, Autonomy,
Interoperability and standardization
Public Warning
SDSC
architecture implemented within the GEON project, may inform the GEOSS architecture design.
SERVIR
(No specific contributions in this area)
STFC et.al
Conceputal schemas and encodings: CSML, GML Application Schema for EO Products, Observations and Measurements
pattern
TASF
Design an open architecture for environment and risk management based on SOA.
Ukraine
Unidata
Experience gained during the GALEON interoperability experiment has indicated that the following architectural approach
to serving datasets from THREDDS servers is viable
US Dept of State
UT/JAXA
Wash. Univ
apply and extend the GEO generic architectural framework. Developing a higher resolution framework for air quality DSS is
an important task because it can guide the design and implementation of the supporting information system.
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Table 5– Notes
Short name
Contribution to architecture development: e.g., UML development, Interoperability Arrangements, etc
Argon/IM
Provides services, TML and a multi-services accessing visualization client. Does not offer any specific data. Keen to see TML as part
of GEOSS.
BKG
Compusult
Provides rich COTS including all sorts of OGC compliant services and a portal to ocean data. Fits perfectly into Tanker Oil Spill
scenario.
Cranfield
Cranfield provides soil data (Africa). Seems to have a portal based solution, including WMS and some sort of catalogue. Would fit
Africa Biodiversity scenario.
EC/JRC
EU/JRC offers the African Observatory, which is accessible at a web portal. Further on, INSPIRE catalogue and INSPIRE Web
mapping services as well as specific services for biodiversity and ecosystems in Africa. EC/JRC mainly seeks after harmonization
GEOSS/INSPIRE.
ESA et.al. FedEO
ESA/FAO Portal
ESONET, et.al.
Provide sub-marine observatories. Data access unspecified. Provide new scenario: Submarine slope failure and subsequent tsunami
ESRI
FGDC
GBIF et.al.
GeoConnections
GEOmon
EU FP6 project that just started in February 2007. Access to data is intended to be instantiated in October 2007. Value for the pilot
mainly in scenario definition phase.
GMU
Workflow description and execution using BPEL engine and workflow designer
INCOSE
JPL
Meraka et.al.
MinesParis
NASA
NOAA/ DMSP
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Short name
Contribution to architecture development: e.g., UML development, Interoperability Arrangements, etc
NOAA/ Hazards
OSIRIS et.al.
Contribution to improvement of standards and definition of the general architecture
Public Warning
SERVIR
Contribution not quite clear
Species 2000
STFC et.al
TASF
WIN EU project is known for open standards that nobody has ever seen
Ukraine
Unidata
US Dept of State
UT/JAXA
Wash. Univ
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