[ESIP-AQ] For input (slides) by 8 Sept - Presentation for ISPRS TCVIII WG2 Symposium

[Masami Onoda]

Dear Rudy,

Thanks so much for this. Will work to make sure this is reflected in the
various reports to the GEO Plenary. I am looking forward to the next
opportunity to join the AQ CoP.

Best regards,
Masami

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Rudolf Husar <rhusar at me.wustl.edu> wrote:

> Hi Masami.
>
> Sorry you could not make it the Solta workshop. The workshop was quite
> technical on data servers, catalogs and clients, but we could have benefited
> from additional GEO perspectives, like: Data sharing Infrastructure is just
> a first step.. GEOSS is about serving the users, users, users..
>
> Thank you for asking how the workshop turned out. With clear and complete
> impartiality :), I would say the workshop turned out quite well, largely due
> to the meeting participants, especially to co-organizer Martin Schultz from
> FZ Juelich for the focused discussions on turning the network 'from virtual
> to real'.
>
> Below is a mini-report to you at GEO and also to others interested in the
> AQ CoP activities activities. As you requested, part of this workshop
> summary will also be included in the AQ CoP description in the GEO 2012-15
> Workplan as well as in the report to the November GEO Plenary.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rudy
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Topical Workshop organized by the GEO Air Quality Community of PracticeAug
> 23-25, 2011, Stomorska, Solta, Croatia. [edit<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Mini_Workshop_Report_to_GEO_and_Others&action=edit&section=1>
> ] Networking Air Quality Observations and Models: From Virtual to Real<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Air_Quality_Data_Network_Solta_2011>
>
> This was the first in-person meeting of GEO AQ CoP members involved with
> data networking. The tree-day workshop was attended by 26 participants, 6 by
> telecon. The group included specialists in interoperability and standards,
> software engineers (and or supervisors). The managers and programmers
> represented major air quality data hubs in Europe and US. This mix of
> expertise made the group was well positioned to address the practical issues
> of building an AQ data network.
>
> The face-to-face meeting and social interactions allowed the participants
> to learn about each other's data systems and general perspectives. This was
> a necessary step toward a shared understanding and for building trust for
> future inter-dependent data networking. As a consequence, during the open
> discussion-oriented sessions, the participants were willing and able to
> articulate the key impediments to networked AQ data systems at their
> respective organizations. With this, remedies for those impediments can be
> pursued.
>
> At the end of the meeting the managers and programmers of the major data
> hubs made a remarkable set of commitments toward making the AQ Data
> Network <http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Air_Quality_Data_Network> happen
> by expanding the network from the current 7 WCS data servers-distributors to
> 10-12; adding more datasets to the shared data pool; broadening the metadata
> support and linking the AQ Community Catalog<http://webapps.datafed.net/CORE.uFIND> to
> other catalogs. But it was also recognized that the real work starts now!
> The follow-though.
> The next steps for the GEO AQ CoP include informing and harmonizing these
> AQ CoP activities with the GEO 2012-15 workplan, interacting with
> stakeholder agencies as well as with other integrating initiatives. As
> always, a key facet of the AQ CoP activities will be to support and
> complement (not to compete with) other integrating initiatives.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Masami Onoda <monoda at geosec.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Rudy!
>>
>> I missed the Croatia workshop, I hope it went well?
>>
>> Masami
>>
>>
>>


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