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KES-B Project Final Presentation – ESRIN, Frascatti, 6th April 2005Slide 1SDD Project – Technical Meeting, GTD-BCN, 23/07/2007

Applications, Service and Knowledge Discovery

GTD

Semantics Driven FrameworkFor Earth Observation

Resources and Knowledge Discovery

(EOSDD project)

gtd SISTEMAS DE INFORMACIÓN


Index

1. Experts Survey and Analysis

2. Applications Analysis

3. Standards and Tools Analysis


SDDExperts Survey and

Analysis


Introduction

The Experts Survey and Analysis provides a survey and analysis of organisations, projects and key personnel who hold suitable knowledge and expertise and could be approached to support the work of this project.


Experts

• Satellite Observing Systems (SOS)– great expertise in all aspects of satellite remote sensing of the marine

environment • The European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC)

– Agency of the Council of the European Union dedicated to the exploitation and production of information derived primarily from the analysis of earth observation space imagery

• The European Environment Agency (EEA)– The European Environment Agency is the EU body dedicated to providing

sound, independent information on the environment • Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)

– Integrated planning and management of coastal resources and environments in a manner that is based on the physical, socioeconomic, and political interconnections both within and among the dynamic coastal systems, which when aggregated together define a coastal zone.


Experts

• The Environmental Knowledge Organisation Laboratory – GEMET THESAURUS

– Activities related to the construction and maintenance of mono- and multilingual thesauri, classification schemes and terminological systems for the environment.

• The Laboratory of Applied Ontology (LOA) – DOLCE ONTOLOGY

– Performs basic and applied research on the ontological foundations of conceptual modeling, exploring the role of ontologies and ontology management

• Marine Metadata Interoperability Initiative (MMI)– International cooperative project working to promote the exchange, integration

and use of marine data though enhanced data publishing, documentation and accessibility.

• MULTH-TU/Chemnitz - MULTH , Multi-Lingual Thesaurus for Risk Management

– This project develops a multilingual hypertext glossary of risk with integrated computer-aided learning facilities.


Experts

• Exprivia - DeepKnowledge– Dedicated to the acquisition, organisation and exploitation of know-how found in

information sources, interpreting them in their context, identifying every possible causal relationship between them and classifying them according to their interpretation

• SeaDataNet – Dedicated to construct a standardized system for managing the large and diverse

data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems.


Experts Engagement

SOS

· Active role in MARCOAST· Wide experience in marine

applications

Independent Consultant

EKOLab (GEMET)· Already used in EEA· MARCOAST oriented

EUROVOC

MULTH

Terminology

Strategy group

P. RYDER

C. LE VISAGE

R. PATRUNO

Project Consortium

System Partners Operational service providers

AGI

ASP

BfG

Brockmann Consult

CEDRE

CLS

DNV

EURIMAGE

GTD

RIKZ

SOS

STARLAB

TPZ

ACRI

BMT

BOOST

Brockmann Consult

CLS

DLR

FIMR

GTD

HCMR

IFREMER

INGV

JRC

KSAT

MERCATOR

OCEAN

Météo-France

MUMM

NERSC

PLANETEK

STARLAB

SYKE

Telespazio

UK Met Office

Core Users group

CEDRE (F)

IFREMER (F)

Météo-France (F)

Port of Barcelona (Sp)

Ministerio de Fomento (Sp)

Nat. Dir. of Fisheries (N)

Norvegian Seafood Federation (N)

Institute of Marine Research (N)

Maritime & Coastguard Ag. (UK)

Environmental Ag. (UK)

UK Met-Office (UK)

Ministero dell'Ambiante (It)

Ministry of Merchant Marine

(Greece)

BSH (G)

BFG (G)RIKZ (NL)

European Environment Agency

MARCOAST Experts


SDDApplication Analysis


Introduction

The Applications Analysis:

Focuses on applications, on the systems that have been assembled to provide the

infrastructure and the supply chain necessary to deliver the services.

Objectives 1. Select 10 distinct application domains

for a detailed analysis, and then from this analysis 2. Select 5 applications:

Related to different aspects of marine activities Need different classificationsWell suited to form the basis of a test service developed for SDD


Desired Application Characteristics

• Mature, operational, and of demonstrated interest to users.• Sufficient information on application to support development

of an ontology based tool.• SDD tool will create added value for users.• Good match to MSU applications• Marine Applications• European relevance and interest


Applications considered

– The ESA GMES Service Element “Fast Track” Services

• Particularly MARCOAST,but also note Risk EOS and Land Mapping• Also note GMES COASTWATCH ICZM service

– The ESA Data User Envelope programme– The Earth Observation Market Development

programme– The EC Framework 6 programme.

• InterRisk, MERSEA

These were matched against potential applications selected by experts from Mississippi State University, for which they had already carried out some initial semantic developments.


Observations on MARCOAST

Effectively only 3 DISTINCT service lines• Oil Spill Monitoring (S1, S2)• Water Quality / Algal Blooms (S3, S4, S5)• Ocean State and Dynamics (”Met-Ocean”) (S6)

Hence the need to consider services from other projects


Initially considered Applications

NRT Wind and Wave (EOMD) Storm Surge Monitoring (NOAA)

Flood Monitoring (RISK EOS) Coastal Flood Hazards Monitoring (NOAA)

Ocean state and dynamics

(MARCOAST S6)

(US Navy, e.g. Stennis Space Centre)

Coastal Bathymetry (EOMD) Monitoring wetland /estuary erosion

Water Quality /Algal Blooms Coastal Bay sediments and pollutants

(MARCOAST [S3, S4, S5], InterRisk) “Watershed” sediments and pollutants

Oil Spill (MARCOAST [S1, S2]) X

Services for fisheries (EOMD) Monitoring for near shore fisheries (oysters)

Vessel Monitoring (MARCOAST, FP6) X

Land Use / Land Cover

(GMES Coastwatch / Land Map)

Land Use / Land Cover in Coastal Zones

European MSU


Finally Selected 10 Applications for analysis

• Near Real Time wind wave information / Storm Surges• Ocean State Monitoring• Coastline Mapping – Wetland Estuary Erosion• Fisheries Support Services / Fisheries Monitoring• Water Quality Monitoring / Sediments and Pollutants• Oil Spill Monitoring• Ship Monitoring / Vessel Traffic Management• Flood Monitoring, Flood Hazards Monitoring• Watershed monitoring for sediments and pollutants• Land Use / Land Cover in Coastal Zones


Applications Analysis - sources of information

• MARCOAST – Service Prospectus– Interviews with service providers– Questionnaires

• InterRisk– Phone and face to face discussions

• Other GMES, ESA (EOMD, DUE) and EC (FP6)– Internet search and service documentation

• MSU– Telecon and provided documentation

• NOAA– Internet Search and service documentation


Applications Analysis - required information

• Project ID• Geographical Coverage• “Technology platform” (for service delivery)• “Technology platform” (for semantic development)• EO data sources• Other data sources• Significance of user interest• ESA / MSU match• Potential for EOSDD


Applications Analysis - Example tableESA MSU

Domain Water Quality Monitoring / Sedimentsand Pollutants

Water Quality Monitoring / Sedimentsand Pollutants

Active Projects /Sources

MARCOAST ESA GSE service NOAA Coastwatch, HABSOS

Geographic Area All Europe Gulf of Mexico

TechnologyPlatform - Delivery

Online service. Processed images viaftp, web service planned

(Inter-Risk FP6 project hasdemonstration web map server delivery)

Web service

TechnologyPlatform ŠSemanticDevelopment

NetCDF, JPEG, geoTIFF. Ontologies development

DevelopmentalStatus / Maturity

Operational service to users - mature Mostly operational and mature

Data SourcesŹ: EO Ocean Colour, SST, altimeter,scatterometer

Ocean Colour (MERIS and MODIS),SST, altimeter, scatterometer

Other o Oceanographic modelso Supplements operational ship

monitoring systemso In situ sampling and buoy data

o Oceanographic modelso Supplements operational ship

monitoring systemso In situ sampling and buoy data

Strategic Interest ofUser

National and Regional EnvironmentAgencies Š high policy relevance

National and Regional EnvironmentAgencies Š high policy relevance

ESA/MSU match High

Potential High


Application Analysis - Final TableApplication Development

Status / Service Maturity (EU)

User Interest (EU)

ESA – MSU Match

Potential for SDD

How easy is it to add semantic value to the

application

1) NRT Wind and Wave Monitoring

Demonstration project – mature technology and user base

Moderate Moderate (to NOOA services)

Moderate Moderate.

2) Ocean State Monitoring Mature High priority Low Moderate - High Not currently known

3) Coastline Mapping 1) Mature

2) Demonstration

Not known (possible ICZM interest)

Moderate Moderate Not currently known

4) Fisheries Support Services Mature High regional interest (Scandanavia)

Moderate Moderate Moderate-High for HAB warning services

5) Water Quality Monitoring Mature High - Europe wide

High High Moderate-High Terminologies, ontologies, gazetteers not commonly used)

6) Oil Spill Monitoring Mature High None existent Low Moderate-High: Terminologies, ontologies, gazetteers not commonly used)

7) Ship Monitoring Developmental Moderate None existent Low Not currently known

8) Flood Monitoring Mature High Low-moderate Low-moderate Not currently known

9) Watershed Monitoring Developmental / Mature

Moderate-high Moderate Moderate - High Not currently known

10) Coastal zone Land Use / Land Cover

Mature High (likely ICZM interest)

Moderate Moderate Not currently known


Criteria to assess the relevance of candidate EO-Applications

• The final ranking weight function is based on:

where • m is the experience or maturity and number of the existing providers, • i is the strategic interest from the EU in them, • c is the closeness of the match of the EU application with the MSU

application• a is the potential of adding (SDD) value to the application through this

project and • d is the relation with marine-domain applications (Mediterranean mainly).

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Applications Rankings

Low – 1 Moderate – 2 Moderate-High – 3 High - 4

Application Development Status / Service Maturity / num. providers (EU)

(15%)

User Interest

(EU) (10%)

ESA – MSU Match (30%)

Potential for SDD (25%)

Marine Domain (EU)

(20%)

Total

1) NRT Wind and Wave Monitoring 4 2 2 2 4 2,7

2) Ocean State Monitoring 4 4 1 3 4 2,85

3) Coastline Mapping 3 0 2 2 2 1,95

4) Fisheries Support Services 4 4 2 2 4 2,9

5) Water Quality Monitoring 4 4 4 4 4 4

6) Oil Spill Monitoring 4 4 0 1 4 2,05

7) Ship Monitoring 2 2 0 1 4 1,55

8) Flood Monitoring 4 4 1 1 1 1,75

9) Watershed Monitoring 3 3 2 4 2 2,75

10) Coastal zone Land Use / Land Cover 4 4 2 2 1 2,3


Final Application Ranking

Ranking Application Name

1 5 Water Quality Monitoring

2 4 Fisheries Support Services (HABs)

3 2 Ocean State Monitoring

4 9 Watershed Monitoring

5 1 NRT Wind and Wave Monitoring

6 10 Coastal Zone Land Use / Land Cover


SDDStandards and Tools

Analysis


Overview

This section reviews the technologies (Knowledge Discovery Tools, standards) that are available.


Knowledge Discovery Tools

• GeoNetwork– manages spatial information.

– enables access to geo-referenced databases, cartographic products and related metadata.

• Sesame– Java framework for storing, querying and reasoning

with RDF and RDF Schema


Other Knowledge tools

• Edition:– Protege– Swoop– TopBraid Composer– SemanticWorks

• Visualization:– Prefuse– Jambalaya– TouchGraph


Standards

• CSW EO-AP (HMA/DAIL interface)– Heterogeneous Earth Observation Missions Accessibility

Application Profile for the OGC Catalogue Services Specification v2.0.0

• GeoNetwork’s CSW2 .0.1– The OGC-CSW 2.0.1 base specification, based on the ISO

application profile, has been implemented in GeoNetwork opensource version 2.1 and serves as the OGC reference implementation for this specification.


Questions and Answers

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