EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Integrated GeoScience Observatory

EarthCube IA：协作提案：综合地球科学观测站

• 批准号: 1541007
• 负责人: J Michael Ruohoniemi
• 金额: $ 7.21万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541007&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; IA; Collaborative; Proposal; Integrated

The habitability of planet Earth depends on a complex interaction between interior regions, solid surface, oceans, atmosphere, near-earth space environment, and Sun. Yet, study of this Sun-Earth system is traditionally broken up into separate geoscience disciplines, so that progress can be made by scientists working in reasonably-sized communities that share a common language and base of knowledge. To broach the bigger question of the interaction of the subsystems studied by the separate communities, it is necessary to overcome the barriers of communication posed by different observational instruments, software tools for interpreting data, and modeling methods. In answer to this challenge, the Integrated Geoscience Observatory is a pilot project that creates an online platform for integrating data and associated software tools contributed by separate geoscience research communities, into a unified toolset that brings them together. The vision is to expand the individual domains of geoscience research toward study of the whole Sun-Earth system, and in so doing to uncover the system level effects critical to the habitability of planet Earth.EarthCube aims to develop a framework for assisting researchers in understanding the Earth system. This systems science challenge is recognized in the Decadal Survey in Solar and Space Physics [2012], with the conclusion "Data from diverse space- and ground-based instruments need to be routinely combined in order to maximize their multi-scale potential." The Integrated Geoscience Observatory is a pilot project that explores realization of this vision by focusing on the limited context of geospace research. The observatory creates an integrated package of software tools contributed by researchers with specific capabilities, and designed to enable integration of diverse observational data. Features of the toolkit include: (A) linking diverse data sets from multiple data repositories and automatically mapping them to a common user-specified coordinate grid; (B) implementing the well-known Assimilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics (AMIE) procedure for assimilation of this data to yield a global picture; and (C) utilization of the EarthCube building blocks GeoSoft, for communicating ontology, and GeoDataspace, for attributing credit to contributors through publication of processed data. The toolset can be accessed and used either through a web-based computing environment, or through download packages for local installation, with a nearly seamless transition between the two.

地球的宜居性取决于内部区域，固体表面，海洋，大气，近地太空环境和太阳之间的复杂相互作用。然而，对这个日光浴系统的研究传统上被分解为单独的地球科学学科，因此在具有共同语言和知识基础的合理社区工作的科学家可以取得进展。为了提出单独社区研究的子系统相互作用的更大问题，有必要克服不同观测工具，用于解释数据的软件工具以及建模方法所带来的通信障碍。为了应对这一挑战，集成的地球科学天文台是一个试点项目，该项目创建了一个在线平台，用于将单独的地球科学研究社区贡献的数据和相关的软件工具集成到将它们融合在一起的统一工具集中。愿景是将地球科学研究的各个领域扩展到整个太阳 - 地球系统的研究，并因此揭示了对地球地球可居住性至关重要的系统级别的影响。地铁旨在开发一个框架，以帮助研究人员了解地球系统。这项系统科学挑战在太阳能和太空物理学的十年调查中得到了认可，得出的结论是“需要常规组合来自不同空间和地面仪器的数据，以最大程度地发挥其多尺度潜力”。综合地球科学天文台是一个试点项目，它通过关注地理空间研究的有限背景来探讨这种愿景的实现。天文台创建了由具有特定功能的研究人员贡献的集成软件工具包，旨在使各种观察数据的集成。该工具包的功能包括：（a）链接来自多个数据存储库的各种数据集，并将它们自动映射到常见的用户指定的坐标网格； （b）实施众所周知的电离层电动力学（AMIE）程序的同化图，以同化该数据以产生全球图像； （c）利用EarthCube构建块Geosoft在本体论和Geodataspace进行交流，将信用归因于贡献者，通过发布处理的数据。可以通过基于Web的计算环境访问和使用该工具集，也可以通过下载软件包进行本地安装，两者之间几乎无缝过渡。