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This is the trademark of Transformation + Innovation. i had the priviledge to present a few slides during a breakfast presentation on a RESTful WfXML: A User Centric Resource-Oriented Approach to Workflows as they apply to the orchestration of OGC services with some examples taken during the recent South California fires.

A very interesting talk from Dennis Wisnosky, CTO of the DoD Business Mission Area on Agile Architectures…talking about a challenge for DoD!

This current work is sponsored by the OGC (as part of OWS-5) and NASA. It is also getting a lot of attention from the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) as a complementary approach to the existing SOAP-based WfXML API for Workflow Interoperability.

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“…Right now, in addition to Ikhana, that network includes two high-tech satellites that are also being used to monitor the wildfires. The Terra and Earth Observing-1 (EO1) satellites have sensors that use telescopes and cameras to scan the planet for natural disasters and send data back for scientists to review. The Terra’s sensor has a one-kilometer range—large enough to locate hotspots from space but too huge to focus in on specific sites. The EO1 has a 30-meter range for closer views of natural disasters, and the UAV delivers even more detailed information. NASA is working to combine these tools to create a web of sensors that rescue workers could use to find the information they needed quickly and efficiently…”

The EO-1 SensorWeb Enabled Data Node GeoBliki is at the center of the EO-1 tasking and data publishing using GeoRSS Feeds. Using OpenGeoSpatial (OGC) standards, the satellite can be tasked and the data custom processed using workflows. Products are then distributed via a subscription mechanism.

The framework is open-source and based on Ruby-on-rails. Integrating sensors for the SensorWeb is a matter of quickly duplicating those data nodes with some minor customization for the sensor itself.

Article in cnn.com/technology

Updated 1:55 p.m. EDT, Fri October 26, 2007

“It’s kind of like going to the weather channel for fire,” says Dan Mandl, the EO-1 mission manager at NASA. “Every sensor in the world becomes a data feed, and we’re using RSS technology [so] anyone can locate and subscribe to it.”

Instead of having people intercept the data, the process has become automated, which speeds up the information-gathering process, Mandl says. An image from the EO1 used to take two weeks to analyze, but the first images from the fire in Southern California were analyzed in less than 10 hours.

“The fire workers need to have as much data as possible about the location of the fires,” Mandl says, “because the big problem is that fires don’t stay still.”

The GeoBliki workflow kicked off this morning after the the Level 1G data was processed by JPL. Many OGC services were orchestrated using our GeoBusiness Management Process (GeoBPMS): Sensor Planning Service(SPS), Sensor Observation Service(SOS), Web Feature Server(WFS) from GeoBliki; Web Processing Service from JPL WPS; Web Coverage Service(WCS) from GMU. This workflow produced a new data product for the thermal overlay of task #73.

Here is the Google Earth kmz file .

If you want to know about new data products as they happen, then follow EO-1 GeoBliki on twitter.

A new PubSub service will be coming online soon!

Stay tuned.

NASA support has been requested in for a state of emergency so we are all trying to help as we can. We have modified our GEOSS workflows to monitor the situation in the San Diego area. Fire threats are being detected based on MODIS data and EO-1 is being tasked twice a day to image the area.

RESTful workflows implemented using OpenWFERu are being used to process the imagery to deliver the data to the first responders. First thermal imagery processed onboard the satellite has been downlinked and is available on http://eo1.geobliki.com. Higher resolution data will be available as soon as possible.

As more than 500,000 people are being evacuated and many are loosing their homes, our prayers and thoughts are with you.