Elements: Software: The Integrated Geoscience Observatory (InGeO)

该合同将支持综合地球科学观测站（InGeO）的发展。InGeO是一个在线平台，它将研究人员提供的数据和相关软件工具集成到一个统一的工具集中，以实现对融合系统科学的研究。日地系统的复杂过程影响着地球的宜居性。随着技术的不断进步，我们的社会也变得越来越容易受到这些复杂过程所带来的破坏。太阳-地球系统的研究传统上被分成不同的地球科学学科，通常集中在系统的一个特定区域。然而，几个区域之间的相互作用往往最终对地面系统产生重大影响。例如，在太阳、磁层和电离层之间发生的一系列过程经常导致GPS信号的丢失，从而严重影响依赖该技术的所有通信/导航和基础设施。为了解决由不同群体研究的子系统之间的相互作用这一更大的问题，有必要克服由不同的观测仪器、解释数据的软件工具和建模方法造成的交流障碍。为了促进系统科学，InGeO创建了一个集成的软件工具包，专门用于帮助研究人员发现和整合各种观测数据，并以最灵活的方式将该工具包分发给社区。在国家科学基金会EarthCube项目支持的试点项目的基础上，该工具包的具体功能包括：(a)链接来自多个观测数据存储库的不同数据集；(b)在可共享的计算环境中使用这些数据，并配备全套标准数值和数据处理工具；(c)使越来越多的有针对性的、用户贡献的工具，如同化模型或插值方法成为可能。该工具包既可以通过基于web的计算环境访问和使用，也可以通过下载Docker容器进行本地安装，两者之间的转换几乎是无缝的。该工具包是开源的，并确保数据和软件贡献者的信用归属，InGeO团队与科学界成员（特别是学生和早期职业研究人员）合作，改进工具包并建立一个可持续的，更紧密的用户基础。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会高级网络基础设施办公室颁发，由美国国家科学基金会地球科学理事会的跨领域活动计划联合支持。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support the development of the Integrated Geoscience Observatory (InGeO). InGeO is an online platform that integrates data and associated software tools contributed by researchers into a unified toolset to enable studying the convergent, systems science. Complex processes in the Sun-Earth system affect the habitability of earth. As technological progress continues, our society also becomes increasingly vulnerable to the disruptions introduced by these complex processes. Study of the Sun-Earth system is traditionally broken-up into separate geoscience disciplines, typically focusing on a specific region of the system. However, often the interaction between several regions end up significantly affecting terrestrial systems. For example, a chain of processes occurring between the Sun, magnetosphere, and ionosphere often result in loss of GPS signal that severely affects all the communication/navigation and infrastructure that depends on this technology. To broach the larger 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.To promote systems science, InGeO creates an integrated package of software tools specifically designed to help researchers find and integrate diverse observational data and distributes this toolkit to the community in the most flexible way possible. Building on the pilot project supported by the NSF EarthCube program, the specific features of the toolkit include: (a) linking diverse data sets from multiple observational data repositories; (b) using these data within a shareable computing environment, complete with a full selection of standard numerical and data-processing tools; and (c) enabling an ever growing assortment of targeted, user-contributed tools, such as assimilative models or interpolation methods. The toolkit can be accessed and used either through a web-based computing environment or by downloading Docker containers for local installation, with a nearly seamless transition between the two. The toolkit is open-source and ensures credit attribution to data and software contributors, and the InGeO team works with members of scientific community (especially students and early career researchers) to improve the toolkit and build a sustainable, more connected user-base.This award by the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure is jointly supported by the Cross-Cutting Activities Program within the NSF Directorate for Geosciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.