Outcomes

Workshop Report

The report of the 2nd Data Providers workshop can be downloaded here.

Photos of the workshop

Photos of the workshop can be downloaded here

Presentations of the workshop

Thursday 20 April 2017

Speaker/Moderator: Nicola Pirrone & Stefano Nativi (CNR-IIA) Steven Ramage (GEO Secretariat) , Guido Colangeli (ESA), Gilles Ollier (EC)

10:00-10:10 Welcome note from CNR, GEO Secretariat,  ESA,
10:10-10:20 Message from the DG research and Innovation of the European Commission
10:20-10.30 Structure and Objectives of the Workshop  (Steven Ramage)

10:30-11:40  GEO and GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) information session
Chair Osamu Ochiai

• GEO Strategy and Vision (Steven Ramage) (10 min)
• New GCI developments:
• GEOSS Portal (ESA: Guido Colangeli); (30 min)
• GEO DAB (CNR: Stefano Nativi);(20 min)
• Registration (UNIGE: Gregory Giuliani).(10 min)

11:40-12:40  GCI  Success Stories: (10 min each)
Chair Osamu Ochiai

• GCI-WIS interoperability (Thorsten Büßelberg, WMO);
• "Monitoring Essential Climate Variables and  Essential Biodiversity Variables" (Gregory Giuliani, UNEP GRID);
• Making CEOS Agencies Assets Discoverable and Accessible in the GCI … 280+  Million Records and Counting’ (Richard Moreno, CEOS); 
• A GEO Community Portal & Spatial Data Infrastructure for Energy (Lionel Menard, Webservice-Energy.org);
• GCI Infrastructure support Story: Amazon: AWS support to GCI infrastructural services (Joe Flasher, Amazon);
• GCI Community Application Story: GCI and ArcGIS Online interoperability, story map. (Roberto Lucchi, Esri).

12:40-13.00  Questions & Discussion

13:00-14:00  Hosted Lunch

Experiences and suggestions from existing, new GEO GCI data providers

14:00-14:15
Chair Osamu Ochiai

• Introducing GEOSS Data Providers: summary report on Statements received and Data providers presence at the workshop.

14:15-15:15  (1 Hour)
Moderators: Osamu, Paola, Guido, Esa

• Break out session in 4 groups (Benefits and Challenges)

15:15-16:00: Coffee Break: Lightning talks (5 min each)
Chair: Paola De Salvo

• Anna Maria Trofaier, "Fourteen institutes, one goal – How to establish the Svalbard Arctic Earth Observing System" (SIOS);
• Ana Pinheiro Privette, Enabling access to Climate-Relevant Data Through the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP);
• Bart De Lathouwer, Next GEOSS wants to engage with the (current and new) Data Providers OGC, Next GEOSS;
• Vanya Nikova, Liberating Sentinel Data, 1 PB at a time, Cloudsigma;
• Erwin Goor, VITO as GEOSS Data Provider & Further Involvement, VITO.

16:00-16:30 (30 Min) 
Moderators: Osamu, Paola, Guido, Esa

Reporting session with Recommendations

16:30-16:40   

• "Developing Engagement between GEO and the Private Sector" EARSC
  Emmanuel Pajot, Earsc

16:45-17:30

• Register to become a Data Provider
• How to contribute to GCI

17:30 – Group Photo
(Mattia Santoro, Esa Falkenroth Paola De Salvo.)

 

Friday 21 April 2017

 

09:00-9:40  GCI and its Potential – Open Data Access Beyond Discovery
Moderator: Osamu Ochiai

• Overview of the Data Management Principles and their importance for GEOSS and the GCI (Mustapha Mokrane) 20min
• Story from the GEOSS Portal: What Happen if Metadata are not implemented correctly – with focus on Metadata Essential Fields & Responsibility of Data Provider & GCI Implementers (Guido Colangeli – with Gregory Giuliani) 20 min

9:40-11:00  Panel Discussion
Moderator: Esa Falkenroth

"Stories from Data Providers, their best practices and challenges in Data Management. Towards Sustainable solutions in providing data and maintaining over time  and their impact on decision making."

• Mark Iliffe University of Nottingham / The World Bank
• Daniel Quintart, Copernicus;
• Julia Wagemann, ECMWF;
• Asanobu Kitamoto DIAS;

Presentations focused on how the Data Providers deals with Metadata, Tools, Standards, Open Data Access, Issues and gaps.

11:00-11:45  Coffee Break: Lightning talks (5 min each)
Chair Osamu Ochiai

1. Mariya Urazaeva, Deimos Imaging: The unique Earth Observation portfolio of UrtheCast/Deimos Imaging: Present and Future;
2. David Patterson, WWF-SIGHT "why spatial data transparency is vital for WWF as a conservation NGO and why we need GEO";
3. Nate Smith, Humanitarian Open Street Map, ""OpenAerialMap: Connecting open satellite, UAV, and other aerial imagery to humanitarian partners";
4. "Unleashing the power of GEOSS for every child" Valeria Groppo, UNICEF;
5. Peiliang Shi, WIS2.0, WMO;
6. Tim Duffy, "OneGeology as a GEOSS Data Provider", One Geology.

 11:40-12:45  Data Management Principles Implementation and Practices: Hands on session
Moderators: Michael Diepenbroek,  Mustapha Mokrane and Wim Hugo

This session will introduce the certification of data repositories as one of the practical mechanisms to assess implementation of GEOSS Data Management Principles (DMPs). As a practical exercise, GEO data providers are invited to test the core level certification for data repositories by completing a self-assessment against the Core Trustworthy Data Repositories (Core TDR) Requirements developed by the World Data System (WDS) and Data Seal of Approval (DSA). The self-assessment form is available here: https://goo.gl/ipEBmW

12:45-13:00

• Ian, Schuler, Publishing your EO data for use in modern applications, Development Seed

13:00-14:00  Hosted  Lunch

How Communities can benefit of GCI and its resources
Moderator: Mattia Santoro (CNR)
14:00-14:40

• How to Interface with GCI – GEO DAB APIs-VIEWS
• Why we need APIs and VIEWS?

14.40-15.10

Users stories: How community can use them to leverage GCI Resources (10 min each)

• Vassilliss Tsironis "The GEO-CRADLE Regional Data Hub tool: Utilising the GEO DAB APIs for easy access and discovery of regional EO data" (NOA)
• Enrico Boldrini "Accessing global monthly variables: Net Photosynthesis (PSNet) and Gross Primary Production (GPP) through GEODAB" (CNR)
• Aditya Agrawal "Connecting Networks to Make Earth Observation Data More Accessible for the SDGs" (GPSDD)

15:10-15:40  Deliver GEOSS Portal widgets
Guido Colangeli (ESA)

• Guido Colangeli Reuse of GEOSS Portal Components for Community Portals
• Jonas Eberle Use Case: The GEO-Wetlands Community Portal

15:40-15:50  Questions

15:50-16:00  How GCI is making a difference in Decision Making: Call for Applications from the community, using GCI resources : Disaster, Climate, SDGs.

16:00-16:40  Coffee Break: Lightning talks (5 min each)
Chair Osamu Ochiai

1. Jay Matta, "The Groundwater Assessment Platform (GAP) – taking measurement points and readily available geo-spatial data to produce prediction maps using statistical modelling." EAWAG;
2. Ian Schuler, "Creating cloud-based data distribution / discovery tools, like MODIS on AWS or NASA's Cumulus Platform for processing and distributing EO data on the cloud", Development seed;
3. Hironori Yabuki, ADS's contribution to GEO, ADS;
4. Yasunori Hanafusa JAMSTEC’s Contribution to GEO, JAMSTEC;
5. The GEO-CRADLE Regional Data Hub tool: A vision for a regional GEOSS Portal, National Observatory of Athens (NOA).
6. Marc-Elian Bégin, "Platforms to ignite open data exploitation in the cloud" sixsq

16:40-17:10  Clarifying role / relevance of statistical information (ESA and CNR)
Guido Colangeli (ESA) & Mattia Santoro (CNR)

17:10  Closing Session