[Esip-envirosensing] ESIP Summer Meeting 2018 - EnviroSensing Sessions

[Scotty Strachan]

Greetings fellow EnviroSensors!

Renée & myself want to give you a heads-up on two related sessions that 
we proposed to ESIP for the Summer Meeting.

Following on this year's cluster topic focus, we are hoping to see 
stimulating discussion on QA/QC workflow for streaming sensor data, 
including current practices/tools/standards and needs for more 
integrative software and standards.

If the ESIP organizers put these sessions in the program, we will both 
be there and will facilitate the sessions. We would love to see any of 
you who are going to the Summer meeting and are interested in this topic 
to give a short case study presentation or contribute to the discussion.

See the sessions as proposed below, and look for them on the ESIP 
website as we get closer to the meeting!

Cheers, and hope to see you in Tucson!

Renée & Scotty


Session 1 Title:
Sensor QA/QC workflow: case studies and discussion

Description:
The EnviroSensing Cluster is currently focused on workflow improvement 
for sensor-based science, particularly in the areas of quality assurance 
(QA) and quality control (QC) to meet FAIR Data (Findable, Accessible, 
Interoperable, and Reusible) objectives. Provenance for sensor data 
begins at the procurement/deployment phase and ends with some level of 
quality-controlled output product. Capture of metadata for hardware 
deployment, field maintenance, and data transmission represents the bulk 
of QA work, whereas the subsequent evaluation and flagging of 
observation data represents the QC process. As part of a two-session 
series, we will have short presentations (5-10min/ea) on case studies of 
QA Metadata Capture and subsequent Data Quality Control workflows, 
followed by group discussion of efficacy and directions for improvement. 
A separate session on standards for sensor QA/QC metadata annotation and 
related protocols will follow up on these concepts.


Session 2 Title:
Standards and technologies for sensor QA/QC annotations, metadata 
capture, and automated workflows

Description:
As sensor networks become more ubiquitous and complex, the scientific 
community requires a convergence on standards for metadata (e.g., 
deployment conditions and QC annotations) as well as technology tools to 
facilitate semi- or fully-automated workflows. Protocols such as 
SensorML and other emerging standards exist, so how well do they fit 
these needs and how might they be incorporated into new software tools 
and frameworks? Where are the gaps and opportunities? This session will 
incorporate a mix of short presentations (5-10min/ea) on existing tools 
and forward-looking ideas, as well as group discussion.