Water SBA Session Summary
Jeff.deLaBeaujardiere@noaa.gov
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Contents:
• WaterSBA contributions
• Scenario Development
• Vision: World Water Catalogue
• Work Plan Development
• Unanswered Questions
• Attendees
• List of presentations
• Summary of 5 presentations
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GEOSS AIP Water SBA Contributions
Contribution
Aquatic
Informatics
software for hydrological data management
CUAHSI
catalog services., e.g., WIS, applicable to hydrologists
GeoWOW Hydro data sets, use case scenarios and tutorials relevant to
hydrology.
NIWA
Station Information Management System
NASA
satellite-based flood maps utilizing an alternate
representation to WaterML for sharing water resources
information
NOAA
lead development of Water SBA and contribute data
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Global Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Forecasting
System (GADMFS)
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GMU CSISS
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Organization
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Scenario Development
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• Discussion of scenario ideas, but not enough time to actually
elaborate a complete scenario
• Show ability to integrate in situ & remote data
– E.g., Precipitation -> stream gauge, soil moisture
• Show ability to create detailed spatial catalog of observation
locations (points & bounding polygons)
• Potential Use Case types to address:
– Flooding
– Agricultural drought: WMS/WCS
– Hydrology data: SOS & WaterML
– Data & policy
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Water SBA – key discussion points
• Understanding components of the water cycle, in particular in low
monitored areas (=> IAHS PUB is working on that).
– For that we need at minimum observations or models of: Precipitation, Evaporation, Soil
moisture, discharge.
– Typically in-situ sensor obs are used. RS becomes more important.
– Help RS science as validation
– Help science to find data
– Help catchment managers (cross-national, cross-domain) to find data.
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• RS can assist in-situ observations (vice-versa)?
Research required!! => bring together in-situ with RS is a goal.
• Standards for Geospatial / RS exchange ok (WxS).
• Standards for timeseries / sensor exchange under development through OGC
HydroDWG (SOS/WaterML2).
• GEO GCI should endorse and recommend OGC HydroDWG standards as
domain standards.
• Bringing together in-situ obs and RS into a world water catalogue (water
community portal) will:
Vision: “World Water Catalogue”
Where are all in-situ sensors in the world (water cycle)?
And related RS products?
Users: Find all stations.
Many Providers:
World Water Catalogue
Filter:
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per station type
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per variable
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Per time period
OGC HydroDWG:
SOS2.0
WaterML2
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Stations:
“GEO
Variables:
“GEO
Global
Precipitation
sensor
Sensor
Evaporation
Standard”
Directory
Soil
Infrastructure”
Flow
(Political and Provider) Partners
BoM
NIWA / WRC
CUAHSI
USGS
GRDC
Europe: INSPIRE, GEOWOW
South America???
Asia???
Industry Partners
Africa???
• Kisters
• ESRI
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Federated Infrastructure
Portals
CUASHI HydroSeek
NIWA EIBrowser
GEO Portal
Clients
“GEO
Global
OGC
HydroDWG:
InterSensor
operability SOS2.0
Directory
WaterML2
layer
Infrastructure”
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Implementations:
KISTERS
52North
Mapserver
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Providers
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CUASHI Station Catalogue
GRDC Station Catalogue
NIWA Station Catalogue
BOM Station Catalogue
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Work Plan Development
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• Decide whether to establish Water WG
Yes. Chair: Matt Austin (NOAA). No co-chair: Stefan Fuest (KISTERS).
• Engage w/GEO users stakeholders regarding requirements & problems the
envisaged Catalogue will assist: RS community, IAHS PUB , science community.
• Engage with information providers:
NIWA, CUAHSI, BOM, USGS, GRDC, NOAA
• Some possible Water SBA-specific milestones:
– GRDC data will be provided to Data-CORE through GeoWOW
– UNEP-Live ability to publish & find using GEO broker
– Using SOS & WaterML2. Adoption of SOS hydrology profile from OGC
Hydrology DWG and GEOWOW.
– Documentation/tutorials to help people use these services; Best-practice
paper
• Cross collaboration ideas:
– Standardized approach/profiles to SOS, WCS, WaterML2, vocabularies.
– Show ability to integrate in situ & remote data
– Precipitation -> stream gauge, soil moisture
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Proposed Actions / Gantt
Confirm:
Chair: Matt Austin (NOAA). No co-chair: Stefan Fuest (KISTERS).
Matt
May, 5th
Send material to relevant people.
Jochen
May, 5th
Schedule first telco within 14days.
Matt
Mid May
Identify Relationships with world water online, etc.
Matt
Mid May
Define objectives, goals, milestones at first Telco.
All
Mid May
Define key data providers to be engaged and communication pathways at first telco
All
Mid May
Define users to be engaged and communication pathways at first telco
All
Mid May
Bring identified data providers on board
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July?
Bring identified users on board
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July?
Survey users and recommend use-cases and functionalities
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August?
Work with OGC/GEO to embed finalized SOS/WaterML into GEO GCI
Matt
September
Best –practice guideline for publishing water data.
Matt/
Stefan
October
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By When?
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Who
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Unanswered Questions
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• How to unite in a scenario these projects that have different
coverage area, time scale and spatial scales?
• Can AIP tell GEO that some standards should be more
recommended than others in particular areas?
• What is relation (if any) between GEOSS AIP Water SBA and
OGC Hydrologic Information Sharing Pilot?
• How does this initiative fits with World Water Online?
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Water SBA Breakout Session Attendees
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Jeff de La Beaujardière, NOAA
Stuart Frye, SGT/NASA
Meixia Deng, GMU
Jochen Schmidt, NIWA
Gregory Giuliani, UNEP
Stefan Fuest, Kisters
Sneha Rao
Hervé Caumont
Masahiko Nagai
Angel Palomares
Robert Thomas
Tien-Yin Chou
Liping Di
Lucia Lovinson
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Presentations by participants
• Speakers:
Jeff.deLaBeaujardiere@noaa.gov
– Stuart Frye, SGT/NASA: Water & Flooding
– Meixia Deng, GMU: Global Drought Mon. Syst.
– Jochen Schmidt, NZ NIWA: Station Info. Mgmt. Syst.
– Greg Giuliani, UNEP: UNEP-Live
– Stefan Fuest, KISTERS: GeoWOW Hydrology
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NIWA Briefing
• Info about the stations, but not the data? Only stations, data next
• Do they know about CUAHSI work in this area? yes
– May use GBIF (for biodata) but work on SOS profile for biodata
– Portal agnostic
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• Will use WaterML2 for SOS
• Do they know about NOAA NODC CF/NetCDF templates?
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– Client: Env Info Browser ei.niwa.co.nz
– Will offer use SOS & THREDDS for data access.
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– Much data in New Zealand, cannot always find, access or
understand it
– Heterogeneous methods & standards
– Need: Catalog service, incl location info (Feature Svc)
– Now have Geonetwork data catalog dc.niwa.co.nz
– Station Info Mgmt Syst sims-wfs.niwa.co.nz
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WaterPedia – Stuart Frye
• Working on baseline water-level mask
• Want to use crowd-sourcing approach to get info.
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Show excursions from normal during flood and drought
Start w/Landsat or other satellite data @ ~10m resolution
Regional pilots in southern Africa & Caribbean
Want to produce “WaterPedia”
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– Will use OpenStreetMap approach
– Include expert supervision
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Global Drought Mon. Syst. – Meixia Deng
– Include data access, processing services, workflow services
– Data sources: WCS, processing: WPS, result display: WMS
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• Will use services registered in GEOSS CSR.
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• Need timely & accurate data on demand.
• Most existing drought info systems not based on open stds or
compatible w/GEOSS. Coarse res, regional, maps only/no
data.
• GMU wants to dev OWS system for drought monitoring:
GADMFS = Global Agriculture Drought Monitoring &
Forecasting System
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UNEP Live
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• UNEP: review & report on state of the environment.
• UNEP-Live will be used to support this activity.
• At interface between science and policy
– GET THIS SLIDE for plenary
– Information-to-policy idea: ambitious scope, perhaps
• Assemble data, collaborate on reports, publish results.
• Will discover and access content
• Link to treaties and multilateral agreements
• Prototype: http://www.uneplive.org
• Can feed into EuroGEOSS broker, but not yet to discover new
content—will enhance in AIP-5
• Targeting water security Use Case
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GeoWOW Hydrology - Kisters
• GEOWOW = GEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean & Water.
• Kisters has software to collect data from sensors and make available via
OGC services.
• Some work packages already underway will be relevant to AIP-5 Water
SBA.
• Working on improved discovery, access, processing & visualization
services.
– What do they mean by “improved”
• Heterogeneous sensors, software, formats. Much less standardized than
weather data.
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• GTN-R : near-real-time information
• GRDC data will be provided to Data-CORE through GeoWOW
• Using SOS & WaterML2. Establish hydrology profile for SOS.
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– Participating in OGC Hydrology DWG
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– Contrib s/w to Global Data Runoff Center.
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