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Tomorrow is the Kick-off for the Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability initiative testbed activity Phase 5 (OWS-5) in Reston Virginia.

We will be presenting [G]EO-Web: our multi-sensor web-based architecture. Workflows for SensorWeb processing will be heavily debated.

Our Approach:

• BPMN 1.0 for the presentation layer
• XPDL 2.0 for model persistence
• Workflow Chaining Service API for runtime control (loosely based on an harmonized version of SPS/WPS and Transactions)
• Identity 20 with OpenID and SSL-PKI

This will be the first official presentation of GeoBPMS: Our GeoSpatial Business Process Management System to be integrated with our GeoBliki SensorWeb Enabled Data Nodes.

All Open Source and Standards-based: it will feature the OpenWFEru workflow engine, Rools, a ruby rules engine, Community MapBuilder, XForms and Matelot, an upcoming FLEX-based workflow navigator.

This will be interesting and will get us ready for GEOSS International Pilot Program later this year in South Africa… We will need some help!

Please contact me if you are interested.

Great article on Drones Raise Safety Issues as Service Roles Multiply in the Washington Post today. NASA Ames Predator to be flown from Dryden is called the IKHANA and will join the SensorWeb this summer as part of a multi-asset collaboration to fight wild fires. Several NASA satellites will be tasked in a joint effort.

Hot areas on the ground will be detected by the MODIS instruments. These pixels will be matched against reported fires in the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) database.

An analyst will submit fire coverage requests and the system will autonomously task EO-1, ASTER and IKHANA based on asset availability, schedules and predicted cloud coverage.

Work flows will task the assets and process the collected raw data based on precise requirements from the user. Web services provided by JPL and other universities across the Country will be orchestrated to produce final imagery right to the desktop and potentially to the Firefighters on the Ground.

Could not resist and accesss the EO1.Geobliki.com site to get to the EO-1 images using the IPhone… Very Cool!.

Lots of possibilities for the firefighters on the Ground…

Some people can even task that satellite from their IPhone :)

LOL!

Here is a link to an excellent presentation from Mikel Maron. The notes for the slides here. I had the privilege to meet Mikel at FOSS4G & Where 2.0. There is indeed a growing Community of people interested in making a difference. This is very energizing to see this.

Come and Join it. You too can make a difference…

Mikel is very involved with OpenStreetMap and many other Open Source Projects such as WorldKit, Mapstraction, Mapufacture…

Many kudos to Mikel for his relentless energy and dedication!

Our paper “A Web 2.0 and OGC Enabled Sensor Web Architecture for Global Earth Observing System of Systems” was presented at the NSTC 2007 conference on June 20, 2007 by Dan Mandl.

The slides from the presentation are available here