acef: australian coastal ecosystems facility

ACEFAustralian Coastal Ecosystems FacilitySharon Tickell | Senior Software Engineer, CSIRO 9 March 2016

National Plan for Environmental Information

data providers

metadata

services

monitoring sites

information models

vocabularies

environmental features

observing procedures

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NEII components - currentNEII standards

exploreanalyse

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NEII components - future

discovery, download, view web services

gauging stationsboreholes

soil profilesecological survey plots

WaterML GroundWaterMLGeoSciML

stratigraphy lithologygeochemistry

water quality

coal basins

catchmentsaquifers

ANZLIC ISO 2146 ISO 19115

pumpmeter

field guide

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Part 1: Foundation Services• Coastal Research Portal• Geospatial Data Hosting• Metadata Aggregation• Coastal Data Portal• Continuous Water Quality Monitoring• National Marine Turtle Database• Compute and Storage Support

Australian Coastal Ecosystems Facility | Sharon Tickell

• What research is happening in the coastal space?• Who is doing it? Where have they published their data?• Anyone can register a coastal project.

Coastal Research Portalhttp://coastalresearch.csiro.au

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Australian Coastal Ecosystems Facility | Sharon Tickell

• Descriptive / Raster Data:• Land-use Maps• Bathymetry• Ocean colour images• ...

• Boundaries / Vector Data:• Catchment contours• River networks• Survey transects• Management zones• ...

Linked metadata, full styled feature support, projection translation, regular backups

Geospatial Data Hostinghttp://acef.tern.org.au/geoserver

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Australian Coastal Ecosystems Facility | Sharon Tickell

• Local metadata records for ACEF-hosted data.• Harvested coastal dataset metadata from open services:

• AODN• BlueNet• Bureau of Meteorology• CoastalCOMs • CSIRO• eReefs NCI THREDDS• environment.data.gov.au• GeoScience Australia• .. State and Federal Catalogues

Metadata Aggregationhttp://acef.tern.org.au/geonetwork

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• Browse for ACEF-hosted datasets

• Metadata-supported search

• Visualisation for spatial data

• Download data for offline use

Coastal Data Portalhttp://acef.tern.org.au/portal

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Continuous Water Quality Monitoring

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Depth (indicative)

Logan River: Real-time Nitrate Observations vs Monthly Monitoring Data

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Photographic and Video Data

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Compute and Storage Support

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Part 2: Derived Projects• SEQuITOR• Logan Flood Vis• Slacks Creek River Recovery• eReefs• … & more

Australian Coastal Ecosystems Facility | Sharon Tickell

• Experimental visualisation.• Combines ACEF Maps, water

quality monitoring data and a near-real-time hydrodynamic model of Moreton Bay

• Layered map, time series charts, transect slices.

SEQuITOR Data Portalhttp://www.sequitor.org.au

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• Mash-up of water-quality monitoring data with gauging-station data, archive photography from Flikr, Instagram.

Logan Flood-Vishttp://loganvis.meteor.com/

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• Logan City Council regeneration project• Embed local, real-time water quality data in a normal website.

Slacks Creek River Recoveryhttps://riverrecovery.com.au

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eReefshttp://www.ereefs.info

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Funding Bodies:

Collaborating Agencies:

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The Data Discovery Problem

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eReefs Data Brokering Layer

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Analysis dashboards

Visualisation portals

Other client tools

DPN 1 DPN 2 DPN 3

Data Brokering LayerLinked Data

Vocabularies

Harvest Job

DPN Definitions

Harvest Cache

Data Broker

API

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• Not yet public! Due for release in the next month or so• Uses vocabulary-based searches for data discovery

eReefs Visualisationhttp://portal.ereefs.info

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Presenter:Sharon TickellSenior Software Engineer

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

t +61 7 3214 2806e Sharon.Tickell@csiro.au

ACEF Project Team:e team@acef.tern.org.auw http://acef.tern.org.au

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Thankyou

Referenced Websites and Services:

ACEF Website http://acef.tern.org.au

Metadata Service http://acef.tern.org.au/geonetwork

Geospatial Data http://acef.tern.org.au/geoserver

Coastal Data Portal http://acef.tern.org.au/portal

Coastal Research Portal http://coastalresearch.csiro.au

National Marine Turtle Database

http://root-uat.ala.org.au/bdrs-core/acef/home.htm

CoastalCOMS https://portal.coastalcoms.com

SEQuITOR Portal http://www.sequitor.org.au/

Logan Flood Vis http://loganvis.meteor.com/

Slacks Creek River Recovery https://riverrecovery.com.au/

eReefs http://www.ereefs.info