Robert Sohlberg

Awarding Institution: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Total Funding: 359,872.00
3 Year Project Study, 04/15/09 – 04/14/09

SensorWeb 3G to Provide Cost-Effective Customized Data Products for Decadal Mission

The focus of this research effort is to dramatically improve the efficiency of how a wide variety of sensors are integrated together to measure climate change and aid in disaster management. New decadal survey missions such as HyspIRI will produce an overwhelming amount of raw data. Effective data reduction and data fusion can be realized through the use of sensor web technology both onboard the satellites airborne instruments and on the ground. Thus survey satellite data can be integrated into a sensor web over the internet where virtual data products can be instantiated on the fly, assembled quickly by scientists, neo-geographers, emergency workers or even students and visualized as mashups using Google Earth.

We intend to demonstrate an open toolset, based upon our award winning 1 SnsorWeb 2.0, which will provide non-programmers easy access to decadal mission satellite data via visual tools. This toolset will be built upon internationally recognized Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, which will be integrated into a service-oriented architecture and further enhanced using a Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) approach. We call the new architecture SensorWeb 3G, to indicate 3rd generation maturity. Our group began to experiment with various aspects of ROA during our SensorWeb 2.0 effort and integrated some initial capability. However, for SensorWeb 3G, we intend to demonstrate an extensive ROA capability in order to provide a higher level of simplicity and thus enable user mashup capabilities to instantiate custom products on the fly with visual tools.