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2010-02-18: GeoViQua first workshop

Making GEOSS a quality immersed system of systems

Barcelona, 18 February 2011

Formal Call for presentations

Agenda so far

This is a agenda draft that reflects work in progress. Order and time of the presentations can change. People without a question mark are confirmed.

When	Who	What	Where
8:15_8:45	Registration and Welcome		IEC
	Joan Masó (CREAF)	Welcome
8:45_10:30	Quality and Uncertanty (Dan Cornford, Aston)		IEC
	Dan Cornford (Aston)	A statistical perspective on quality in GEOSS: challenges and opportunities
	Antti Jakobsson (EuroGeographics)	Quality Assurance of Reference Data - best practices based on ISO standards and European National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies
	Jo Lumsden (Aston)	Issues of quality and trust in computing
	Joost Smeets (S[&]T)	Previous projects with S&t participation in quality and RS
10:30_10:45	Coffee break			IEC
10:45_13:30	GEO topics (Joan Maso, CREAF)		IEC
	Steven F. Browdy (IEEE)	GEO GCI internal structure and standards
	Gregory Fallourd (SC)	GEO portal structure and plugability
	George Percivall (OGC)	GEOSS AIP. General presentation
	Hervé Caumont (ERDAS & OGC)	AIP Data Harmonization Working Group & Engineering Report
	George Percivall (OGC)	GEOSS AIP. Debate. How GeoViQua can contribute
	Stefano Nativi (CNR)	Egida and EuroGEOSS projects
	Bente Lilja-Bye (IIASA)	EGIDA: helping the STC towards GEO-Label and a data citation
13:30_15:00	Lunch (People talking in the workshop are invited; the rest on your own)
15:00_16:30	CoP sensibilities on quality (Xavier Pons, UAB)		IEC
	Joan Pino (CREAF)	Quality analysis in land cover change studies
	Pascal Lecomte (ESA)	The importance of Quality Indicators for Climate
	Mike Williams (EumetSAT)	How EUMETSAT distributes its data & products and attach quality indicators them: GEONETCast, EOportal
16:30_16:45	Coffee break			IEC
16:45_17:45	CoP sensibilities on quality 2 (Xavier Pons, UAB)		IEC
	Philippe Peylin (CEA-LSCE)	The Global Carbon Project
	Jon Blower (UREAD)	Ocean data quality
	Jorge de Jesus (Plymouth Marine Laboratory UK)	NETMAR quality concerns
17:45_18:00	Summary and final comments		IEC
	Joan Masó (CREAF)	Summary

A statistical perspective on quality in GEOSS: challenges and opportunities

In this talk I will address some fundamental questions about what quality really means. I will focus on quality as a measure of the relation of the observations (data) and reality, discussing issues that surround the definition of reality, and describe some natural quality indicators that arise from a probabilistic approach to quality assessment. In particular I will introduce and critique QA4EO? , and describe a Bayesian framework within which many disparate sources of quantitative probabilistic quality information can be combined. I will also consider quality aspects that are not well addressed within a probabilistic approach. I will link the discussion to existing metadata standards such as ISO19115 and quality standards such as the emerging ISO19157. I will speculate on how best to progress the practical application of quality quantification in the GEOSS context. (Dan Cornford)

The importance of Quality Indicators for Climate

The presentation will review the requirements for Climate ECVs and in particular the need of QI. (Pascal Lecomte)

NETMAR quality concerns

NETMAR aims to develop a pilot European Marine Information System for searching, downloading, integrating and processing online satellite, in situ and model data from ocean and coastal areas. The major contribution of NETMAR is the use of web services from different partners to develop complex model using service orchestration. The project's first year research has focussed onreviewing existing initiatives, projects, frameworks, technologies and tools, and developing and deploying an architecture. In an activity relevant to GeoViQua? , NETMAR is currently developing the implementation of uncertainty propagation using NetCDF? files, in close collaboration with UncertWEB? project. The intended outcome is allow for uncertainty to be used in NETMAR's study cases, with OGC web services and, critically, to be visualized in webGUIs. (Jorge de Jesus)

People confirmed so far

People in H10 Universitat Hotel

• Trocino, Nicola (SC)
• Fallourd, Gregory (SC)
• Guidetti, Veronica (ESA)
• Cornford, Dan (AST)
• Lumsden, Joanna (AST)
• Radtchenko, Victoria (AST)
• Blower, Jonathan (UREAD)
• Yang, Kevin (UREAD)
• Nüst, Daniel (52N)
• Reitz, Thorsten (FRAUN)
• Thum, Simon (FRAUN)
• Peylin, Philippe (CEA)
• Nativi, Stefano (CNR)
• Joan Masó (CREAF)

• Jakobsson, Antti (EuroGeographics)
• Percivall, George (OGC)
• Browdy, Steven (IEEE)
• Caumont, Herve (ERDAS & OGC)
• Bente Lilja-Bye (IIASA)
• Mike Williams (EumetSAT)
• Jorge de Jesus (PML)

People in other hotels or no needing hotels

• Pascal Lecomte (ESA)
• Joost Smeets and Sander Niemeijer (S[&]t)
• Alaitz Zabala, Pere Serra, Miquel Ninyerola, Xavier Pons, Gerard Moré (UAB)
• Joan Pino, Ivette Serral, Paula Díaz, Núria Julià (CREAF)

-- JoanMaso - 29 Dec 2010