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.

行星地球的可居住性取决于内部区域、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，对这个太阳-地球系统的研究传统上被分解为独立的地球科学学科，因此在共享共同语言和知识基础的合理规模的社区中工作的科学家可以取得进展。为了解决不同群体所研究的子系统之间相互作用的更大问题，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，它创建了一个在线平台，将不同地球科学研究团体提供的数据和相关软件工具整合到一个统一的工具集，将它们汇集在一起。其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，并在此过程中揭示对地球可居住性至关重要的系统水平效应。EarthCube旨在开发一个框架，以帮助研究人员了解地球系统。太阳和空间物理学十年调查[2012年]认识到了这一系统科学挑战，并得出结论：“来自各种空间和地面仪器的数据需要定期合并，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，通过侧重于地球空间研究的有限背景，探索实现这一愿景。该观测站创建了一个由具有特定能力的研究人员提供的软件工具综合包，旨在整合各种观测数据。该工具包的特点包括：（A）将来自多个数据储存库的各种数据集连接起来，并自动将其映射到用户指定的共同坐标网格;（B）执行众所周知的电离层电动力学同化映射程序，以同化这些数据，生成全球图像;以及（C）利用EarthCube构建块GeoSoft，用于传送本体，以及利用GeoDataspace，用于通过发布处理的数据来将功劳归于贡献者。该工具集可以通过基于Web的计算环境访问和使用，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。