Andy Turner's NIEeS Grid GIS Working Group Meeting 2007-01-31 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- This is a Web Page for the NIEeS Grid GIS Working Group meeting on 2007-01-31
- Contents
People
- Attendees
Notes
- Project updates
  - Geolinking IE
    - Chris
    - Participation document being signed tomorrow :)
  - GEMS II
    - Kamie
    - CSISS group at George Mason (Liping Di et al) are making progress :)
      - GRASS Services used for OWS4
      - There are WSDL service descriptions GMU CSISS Service WSDL
      - GeoBrain - looks good.
      - This fits with the July workshop
    - NASA are Grid enabling GRASS
    - GeoCapacity - a grid product not in a grid context?
    - Norman Barker and ENVI
  - NIEeS
    - Events
      - Google Earth and other geobrowsing tools in the environmental sciences workshop, 2-3 April 2007.
        
        John Blower
        
        Mention that Google Maps might require a $10k licence for commercial use!
      - European GeoInformatics Workshop, e-Science Institute, 2007-03-07 09:00 AM - 2007-03-09 01:00 PM.
        
        Could do with more detail on the program ASAP
        
        30 people signed up from OGF OGC etc Josh Leiberman included :)
  - CGS
    - Mike
    - Not doing anything specifically Grid related at present
    - KTP GDC
    - Trying to set up an OGC II Meeting in July
  - SAW-GEO
    - Gobe
    - Looking at design and architecture
    - Server side
      - First implementation found problems with WFS Spec
      - Feature collections transfered as XML soap messages are too heavy
    - WPS 52 North OWS-4 approach used
  - UCL
    - Jeremy
    - Preparing bid to PPARC on planetary mapping
      - Image mapping for earth and mars
      - European stereo camera
      - Related to DLR something on the Berlin OGC meeting
  - OGF20 OGC Workshop Status
    - Chris got the program nearly sorted still 2 gaps
      - Sam Bacharach
        
        Mapping out standards in OGC and ISO
        
        Impress upon GRid the use of standards for interporability and the scale of this work in the GI Community
      - Jeremy to fill a slot on GEOSS
        
        Links with OGC Architecture Working Group
        
        Review of some of the Demos
        
        Mike has a presentation he gave to Nato
      - Chris trying get someone from UN at an upcoming meeting in Frascatti
      - UN SDI person is main target
      - various other people suggested
    - Chris giving a talk
    - Liping Di giving a talk
  - The event overlaps with the AGILE 2007
- OGC University Working Group has new impetus
- HMA hetorogenous mission something or other
- NIEeS Workshop
  - Date
    - Not so important to be before September as NIEeS have 1 years extended funding :)
    - 27-28th of June 2007?
    - EGU GIS meeting in early july so we don't want to clash
  - Purpose
    - To try to promote OGC based systems and looking at Grid interaction with OGC process
    - Look at OSGEO Open Source software
      - Add GRASS to the list
    - NIEeS offer travel and accomodaion
    - Practical discussion about what works
      - Chris wanting to talk about what they are doing with OGSA-DAI
      - Jeremy still keen to go for FOSS4G2008
      - Andy to help Jeremy with an OSGEO hat on:
        
        Would Ian Turton be interested?
        
        We need to explain to invitees from WebGIS world the relevance of Grid/eScience...
- EPSRC Bid
  - Bob and Mike has been talking to folk in BGS (NERC funded)
  - Try to get us all in a room for 2 days and come out with a proposal
    - A practical workshop
      - Day 1 throw our ideas out
      - Day 2 put some of them together into ESRC proposals
  - Claire, Chris and Phil have all written some ideas up...
  - Gobe mentioned some work with 1Spatial on SWE for emergency managemnt
    - Real time visualisation platform
    - DTI funded
    - Interesting...
  - Need to highlight what the project will add to the science base for successful EPSRC responsive bid:
    - What are the research questions to be answered?
    - Is some fundamental technology missing?
    - Innovative original research - these are the buzz words
  - May be better to be a joint Research Council bid
  - Need a thematic component
  - Chris reviewed our discussion on this at the last meeting
    - We thought about basing this on joint funding involving NGS and about Geography-Geology
    - Can we use NGS to provide GeoInfo Services?
    - More service and JISC facing than EPSRC facing?
    - GeoSciML Tim Duffy? OGC Services
    - Found some problems with technology
    - EDINA worked closely with the BGS on their recently released Geology service
  - Kamie
    - Grid not yet enabling us to do great science!
    - First we need to create the data and we need the grid for this.
    - Daily AVHRR images are not being used as we need to serve them first.
    - Step 1 Mapping daily temperatures
    - Step 2 Mapping spectral bands
    - Step 3 Land cover modelling
    - Step 4 Pattern analysis
    - Fire risk? Flood Risk
  - Mike talked about an EPSRC funded phd student who is working on remote sensed data
    - It seems there is a good potential to extend this
    - The idea is to process data to create and improve Metadata to prevent huge downloads
    - Process and generate cloud cover etc
- Lunch
- Back to thinking about EPSRC bid
  - (see minutes)
- Brain Storm
  - Creating a 3D map of the UK
    - For hydrology - To monitoring fresh water resources
    - How much fesh water is there now?
    - Land surface, canopy, bedrock
    - How old are all the geology
    - Describing all the strata
  - British Geological Survey is split into regions
  - BGS are only interested in data in the UK?
  - How do we hook into GEOSS?
    - In UK via INSPIRE GMES
  - Meta data
    - How to confirm from metadata that the data is what is required?
    - If data is expensive or very expensive to download this would be useful.
  - Ontologies metadata resource discovery
  - Look at BGS geoindex
  - Download BGS data from Digimap
  - Coastal zone mapping is a real issue but loads of work done because of the importance of sea level changes
  - Geology doesn't stop at the coastline!
  - AGILE conference could be good: Check out the program
References

Andy Turner's NIEeS Grid GIS Working Group Meeting 2007-01-31 Web Page

Introduction

People

Notes

References

Validation and Metadata