U.S. Commerce Chief Gutierrez Presents U.S. Plan at Earth Observation Summit

U.S. Commerce Chief Gutierrez and Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (and NOAA Administrator) Retired Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher attended the Global Earth Observation Summit February 16 in Brussels, Belgium, and presented the United States’ plan for an integrated U.S. Earth Observation system during the summit’s keynote speech. A description of his speech can be seen at this link.

Hopefully, our coral integration efforts will be in line with the Secretary's vision.

IOOS-Industry Day

I would suggest that some of us from each principal agency and academic institution consider attending this meeting, posted at http://67.94.7.39/index.php?p=43

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IOOS-Industry Day

Ocean.US announces the opportunity to attend a briefing for interested organizations concerning plans to design, develop, fabricate, install and operate the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).

At the Industry Day, to be held 18 March 2005 in the Hall of Flags at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building in Washington, D.C., all interested parties are invited to provide input, ideas, concepts and suggestions toward ensuring effective IOOS development. Admission is controlled and the material to be presented will be unclassified.

Attendance at the Industry Day is by pre-registration only. For further information, visit the meeting website. Include names of all attendees (3 maximum). Attendance is limited to three per company/organization.

Suggested attendees: Senior Technologist, Business Development, Government Relations. Upon receipt of the completed IOOS Registration Package, potential attendees will receive a confirmation notice and other relevant information. Interested parties are reminded that no one will be admitted to the industry brief without this confirmation. Requests to attend this briefing must be received no later than 1600 EDT Friday 11 March 2005. Only individuals who have submitted their registration and clearance information by 1600 EDT on 11 March 2005 and have received approval will be allowed to attend the IOOS Industry Day on 18 March 2005.

SEACOOS remote sensing site

The SEACOOS remote sensing site integrates a wide range of the observations collected under the SEACOOS program, in one mapserver site:

http://seacoos.org/Data%20Access%20and%20Mapping/BetaMap

The web page allows you to actually measure temperature, chlorophyll from satellite (or temperatures from buoys) and build time series, which are returned as ASCII and also graphs.

Much or our satellite data are available via opendap through here or our web site (http://imars.usf.edu)

Frank

SEACOOS

The SEACOOS Web site has a good model for us to consider in building coral data integrating efforts for each of our regions. As part of the analysis phase before extensive building of applications and Webs, this site should be considered in the way of structure and reporting of data and information products. The ocean circulation model, for instance, is a nice piece of work.

MPA Technology Needs Assessment report

Here's the link for the MPA Technology Needs Assessment report, put together by the NOAA Coastal Services Center. This should serve as a Big Step Forward for the development of any requirements analysis for use of all our data.

Chesapeake Bio Lab and IOOS?

From this article, you'd think the Chesapeake Biological Lab was overseeing the IOOS for NOAA. What's the scoop? Has anybody heard about this?

OPeNDAP Architecture

You can find out more information on the OPeNDAP architecture for sharing data by clicking here. Louis Florit and Mike Jankulak are currently in the process of setting up our IMN database to make all our near real-time as well as archived data available via the CHAMP/IMN site, and we will also place an OPeNDAP interface outside the database to enable Russell Moffitt to access the data for use by Ocean Atlas so that you can graph the data, etc. using those cool routines. Also, we'll be asking Gensym to construct a bridge for OPeNDAP for G2 or us.

Take care...Jim

IOOS and Coral Observing Funds

NOAA ADMINISTRATOR ANNOUNCES FISCAL YEAR 2006 BUDGET REQUEST

* The FY 2006 request includes significant resources for NOAA's ocean and coastal programs and fisheries and protected species activities in support of the president's U.S. Ocean Action Plan. More than $1 billion is requested for these ongoing programs, including $61.2 million to address regional ecosystem research priorities at NOAA's Sea Grants, $22.7 million in support of the NOAA Ocean Exploration program, $32.5 million for building a fourth new fisheries research vessel and $25.4 million for fisheries stock assessment.

* The FY 2006 request also includes increases of $1.5 million for the NOAA Coral Program and $1.5 million for the Coastal Global Ocean Observing System.

See more at http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2386.htm

Jim

We talked about "forward-chaining" vs. "backward chaining" expert systems. Here's a little more explanation.

Forward chaining--data-driven inference strategy in which the system begins with known data and works forward to see if any conclusions can be drawn.

Backward chaining--goal-driven inference strategy in which the system works backward from the goal to find supporting data; working "backward" through a chain of rules in an attempt to find a verifiable set of condition clauses.

Also, here's a little table that should help:

cheers...Jim