Pakorn Apaphant, Ph.D.

May 18, 2010WGISS 29, Bonn, Germany

Data Democracy

Objectives

To discuss and ask for advise from WGISS’ Issues

• Data Management (USGS Perspective)• Data Access (Data Democracy Portal)

To Update the meeting on current activities

Background

o Data Democracy was initiated in 2008o End to End process, aiming to strengthen the EO data

utilization cycle by o broadening data in-and situ data/information accesso increasing data dissemination capabilitieso sharing software tools, and o transferring the technologies

o To end users, especially in developing countrieso CEOS continues to support this project (2008-present)o Under purview of CEOS Troikao In 2009, approved as a GEO task in 2009-2010 GEO Work Plan

o CB-09-05e: Infrastructure Development and Technology Transfer for Information Access -Data Democracy, led by CEOS

o Part of GEO Ministerial CBC Showcase

Data Management

o USGS Perspectives on the CEOS Data Democracy Initiative

o Which technology should we apply such that o the utility of common storageo hosting facilities, and o super computing facilities can be possible

o Mirror site are not applied in this project

a bunch of products from different providers

Software B(send request to

provider)

Software A(downloadabl

e)

Software D(send request to

provider)

Software C(downloadabl

e)

Software E(downloadable

)

Software F(send request to

provider)

Course B

Course A

Course C

Course D

Dataset G(20

images)

Dataset H(10

images)

Dataset A

(catalog)

Dataset B

(catalog)

Dataset C(10

images)Dataset D

(200 images) Dataset

E(catalog)

Dataset F

(catalog)

Products are available out there but hard to find !

Data Democracy Portal

o Need one place where users can easily access to those products given by CEOS community

o Put all accumulated products in one placeo By using a search engine which can initially extract

product’ s keywords, thus, users could find data/ documents/ software that they really look for

o No actual images contain in a server but the linkage which guides users to the actual product location

o CEOS members could update the list of products at anytime when they have a new product comes to the program

o Troika closely works with SEO

Portal Structure

Data Accesso Upload tool for product providers

o keywords shall be requested from products’ providers

o use as inputs for search engineo Standard but simple

o Search Engineo The more keywords provided, the better results

o Suggestion and Recommendations from WGISS

Current activities

o Preparation for Showcase at the GEO Ministerial o Training and Workshop on “EO Technology for

Climate change”o June 7-10, 2010, Bangkok Thailando To introduce users in SE Asia on how to

o Access and make use of Satellite data for Climate change applications

o Lecturers from CEOS (USGS, INPE, JAXA, GISTDA), CMA, and AIT