HR: 1340h
AN: IN33A-1163    [Abstracts]
TI: ECHO - Leveraging Web Service Technologies to support a net-centric Earth Science Enterprise
AU: * Burnett, M T
EM: mburnett@blueprinttech.com
AF: Blueprint Technologies, 8618 Westwood Ctr, Suite 310, Vienna, VA 22182 United States
AU: Wichmann, K
EM: keith.wichmann@gst.com
AF: GST, 7855 Walker Drive, Suite 200, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AB: Today's world of Earth Science has several challenges beyond that of just increasing our understanding of Planet Earth. Fundamentally, innovative research is being conducted in a widely distributed and dynamic environment, producing an ever growing set of resources (data, services and clients). Beyond that, the need and value of integrating or interoperating these resources is growing as the resource providers are increasingly diverse. In order to support the emerging 21st century science model, a more mature, fluid and extensible cyber-infrastructure must emerge. A well coordinated use of web service technologies (XML, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI) can play a foundational part of the fabric of that enabling fabric. ECHO, a solution developed by NASA, provides a set of interoperable registries that supports this enterprise fabric. ECHO is comprised of a set of infrastructure services that allow the publication, discovery, understanding and access to earth science resources, all based on a web services model. ECHO services support both data and service registries. These registries are interoperable and based on industry and community standards.
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 0599 General or miscellaneous
DE: 6339 System design
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005