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: 1540937
• 负责人: Yolanda Gil
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 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 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1540937&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、近地空间环境和太阳之间的复杂相互作用。然而，对这个日地系统的研究传统上被分成不同的地球科学学科，因此在规模合理、共享共同语言和知识基础的社区中工作的科学家可以取得进展。为了提出不同群体研究的子系统相互作用这一更大的问题，有必要克服不同观测仪器、解释数据的软件工具和建模方法所造成的沟通障碍。为了应对这一挑战，综合地球科学观测站是一个试点项目，该项目创建了一个在线平台，用于将不同地球科学研究社区提供的数据和相关软件工具集成到一个将它们聚集在一起的统一工具集中。其愿景是将地球科学研究的各个领域扩展到整个日地系统的研究，从而揭示对地球宜居性至关重要的系统水平影响。EarthCube 旨在开发一个框架，帮助研究人员理解地球系统。这项系统科学挑战在《太阳和空间物理学十年调查》[2012] 中得到了认可，其结论是“需要定期组合来自不同空间和地面仪器的数据，以最大限度地发挥其多尺度潜力。”综合地球科学观测站是一个试点项目，旨在通过关注地球空间研究的有限背景来探索实现这一愿景。该天文台创建了一个由具有特定能力的研究人员贡献的集成软件工具包，旨在实现不同观测数据的集成。该工具包的功能包括：（A）链接来自多个数据存储库的不同数据集，并自动将它们映射到用户指定的通用坐标网格； (B) 实施众所周知的电离层电动力学同化绘图（AMIE）程序，同化这些数据以生成全球图景； (C) 利用 EarthCube 构建模块 GeoSoft 来传达本体论，以及利用 GeoDataspace 来通过发布处理后的数据来将功劳归于贡献者。该工具集可以通过基于 Web 的计算环境或通过下载包进行本地安装来访问和使用，两者之间几乎无缝过渡。