US Water Partnership Data Integration Meeting:Harnessing emerging advances in data collection and knowledge management to serve the developing world

Reston, VA | 19 June 2013

USWP Data Integration MeetingBreakout 3: Integration Case Studies

David K Arctur, ModeratorUniversity of Texas at Austin

David L Toll, ModeratorNASA Hydrological Sciences

Sarah Hemmings, RapporteurNASA

Overall Meeting GoalsProvide critical input on meeting the data requirements of the USWP web

portal, including how to manage and synthesize the water knowledge accessed through the portal.

Develop an understanding of the U.S. “data landscape”, including both U.S.-based water data and information delivery platforms, as well as global water-related datasets, information and knowledge products that USWP members and other water stakeholder organizations host and/or utilize.

Share initial survey results of potential developing world users regarding their data and information requirements and solicit feedback from partners.

Discuss how to translate data into information that is relevant to end-users.

Explore how to best organize and deliver relevant information to developing countries to help manage water resources within the current scope of the portal.

Discuss a possible path forward for future development of the web portal.

Working Group Goals What are the most successful integrative platforms?

How can they be leveraged?

What are the recommended actions for managing and sharing U.S. water information?

- Also outline for developing countries

How can our group's activity assist the overall meeting goals?

Successful Integrative Case Study Examples GEOSS Water Data Online (David Arctur/U Texas)

NASA Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS), Data Distribution & Data Rods, David Arctur/U. Texas

NASA SERVIR Geoportal and Data Integration (SERVIR), Sarah Hemmings/NASA

Water Innovation Collaboratory, Dave White/ASU

Land and Water Data Assimilation and Integration Systems (Paul Houser/GMU)

USDOI Water Smart, Kendra Russell/DOI

USGS Climate Geo Data Portal, Nate Booth/USGS

WRI Aqueduct Data Integration for Water Risk Mapping, Betsy Otto/WRI

? Global Energy Solutions Center, Victoria Healey/Global Energy Solutions Center

? NASA Global Change Master Directory, Lola Olsen/NASA

? World Bank Geo Portal Developments, TBD

? World Wildlife Fund HydroSHEDS & Water Risk Filter, TBD

NOAA Climate Data Program Data Integration, Kristen Koyama/NOAA (contact)

USACE Federal Toolbox (Ada Benavides/USACE) {See Lightning Talk}

Sensor Web: Global Streamflow Data Services

Global Runoff Data Centre

USANew Zealand

Dominican Republic

Building a national system federating regions . . .. . . builds a global system federating countries

http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=87ab07e2aba840828033e80b15fd6727

Italy

New Zealand

Sensor to Model Web: World Soil Moisture

A dryer region with significant seasonality

Popup on point links to data and chart

from the NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS)

A very wet region with little seasonality

Charts show 3-hourly variation (37,000 values) of soil water content of the top 1m of soil from 2000 to 2012

http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=7d6cefdf3f324b55b08c136654e91612

A dryer region with distinct seasonality

Other systems overview slides here…

Successful integrative platforms?

GEOSS: catalog of catalogs with discovery, access and semantics broker framework- Needs improvement of search interface- Needs streamlining of integration framework

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What is role of USWP portal in global context?

Data requirements: managing and sharing water knowledge Enable distributed discovery and access, with semantics mediation

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Key Recommendations

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Add-On Slides