SHAirED

Services for Helping the Air-quality community use ESE Data

A NASA Earth Science REASoN Project

The goal of this REASoN applications and technology project is to deliver and use Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) data and tools in support of air quality management. Its scope falls within the domain of particulate matter (PM) air quality management and aims to develop a federated PM information sharing network that includes data from NASA, EPA, and US States. The goal will be realized through the use of monitoring data, novel information technology, and interoperability standards. Washington University, in cooperation with NASA, will partner with EPA, States and other agencies to achieve the project objectives.

In contributing to a network of NASA ESE data in support of particulate air quality management, the project will develop access to distributed data, build Web infrastructure, and create tools for data processing and analysis. The key technologies used in the project include emerging web services for developing self describing and modular data access and processing tools, and service oriented architecture for chaining web services together to assemble customized air quality management applications.

The technology and tools required for this project will be developed within DataFed.net, a shared infrastructure that supports collaborative atmospheric data sharing and processing web services. The web services developed as part of the SHAirED project will build upon existing services in DataFed and the ESIP Federation and will be registered within DataFed so that they are available to other projects. The technologies developed as part of this project and as part of DataFed include:

Datasets: A catalog of distributed datasets from surface monitoring networks, satellite sensors, and model output.

Web Services: Modular services for data processing, analysis, and visualization.

Views: Reusable maps, time series, and tables created by chaining web services.

Web Applications: Collections of views coupled with tools that control and link the views.

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