HR: 13:55h
AN: IN43C-02 [Abstracts]
TI: NASA's Earth Science Gateway within the GEOSS Architecture Framework and in Support of Distributed Global Systems
AU: * Alameh, N
EM: nadinesa@mobilaps.com
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Geosciences Interoperability Office, Code 610.4,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Cole, M
EM: marjorie.c.cole@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Geosciences Interoperability Office, Code 610.4,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Bambacus, M
EM: myra.j.bambacus@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Geosciences Interoperability Office, Code 610.4,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Thomas, R
EM: rthomas@compusult.net
AF: Compusult Limited, 40 Bannister Street, Mount Pearle, NF A1N 3C9, Canada
AB:
Progress continues within the arena of interoperability towards greater discovery, access, and use of scientific
data regarding improved societal benefit and decision solutions. The Group on Earth Observation System of
Systems has developed multiple pilot projects in which many of these maturing and emerging technologies are
being interconnected, tested, and implemented as operational systems. Within this network of components are
data stores, registries, catalogs, portals, models, work-process flows, satellites, UAVs, and many more
components. The pilots tackle the intricate process of ensuring these components properly work together within
the framework of open-standards based interoperability, and enabling the vision of a distributed,
comprehensible, global system of scientific tools and data for the lay-person as well as the researcher.
This paper will concentrate on the NASA Earth Science Gateway (http://esg.gsfc.nasa.gov) view of
interconnections to the registries, catalogs, models, and so on, that support this System of Systems. This paper
covers what standards were used, how components can be connected and tested, where difficulties emerged,
where we have seen return on investment, and how this level of interoperability is progressing.
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting