HR: 1340h
AN: IN13B-1213 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Cyberinfrastructure Lessons from Antelope-based Installations
AU: * Lindquist, K G
EM: kent@lindquistconsulting.com
AF: Lindquist Consulting, Inc., 59 College Rd. #7, Fairbanks, AK 99701, United States
AB: This work reviews over a decade of experience with numerous seismological and multidisciplinary operations based on the Antelope Environmental Monitoring System from Boulder Real-Time Technologies, Inc., deriving key considerations that inform the development of cyberinfrastructure frameworks for small, medium, and large-scale near-real-time operations. Among these: that core construction quality is more important than any individual ideas implemented, though those when subordinate nevertheless enable the implementation of sophisticated features; likewise core construction quality is more important than any particular user-visible graphics, web pages or GUIs, though the latter are nevertheless important in order to deliver results, without which the core systems serve little purpose; that separation of content and presentation is a key aspect for maintainability and growth; that requirements engineering is critical for successful tool design; that it is critical to have a central development framework that provides organization and tool sets; that one must have feedback mechanisms to catch real-time system errors; that it is critical to take an aggressive approach to addressing those errors at their source after a committed hunt to understand them at their deepest layer; that long-term growth and open architecture is furthered by an ability to integrate foreign technology frameworks that offer significant advances and features; that the platform must have the ability to support integration with legacy systems; and that the system must have the ability to support wide datalogger variety, with the understanding that most umbrella formalisms built into acquisition frameworks prove breakable by manufacturers as the support mission expands. Selected case studies will be discussed. At best as the software architecture evolves, it becomes a maintainable, scalable, and runnable platform that explains, quite literally codifies, with increasing levels of sophistication the community's evolving understanding of the monitoring challenges being addressed. The observations presented are expected to be pertinent to the upcoming Ocean Observatories Initiative.
DE: 7294 Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025)
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting