Download LifeWatch - Earth Observations

Contribution of the LifeWatch system
to the GEO BON system of systems
Collaboration
Users
Work flow generator
E-Infrastructure
Composition
Resources
Integration and
Computation
Data
software
Distributed computing power
LifeWatch Research Infrastructure
Enhancing Biodiversity & Ecosystem Science
LifeWatch will provide access to:
• Distributed observatories/sensor networks,
• Interoperable databases, existing (data-)networks, using
accepted standards
• Computional power
• Software & tools voor visualisation,
analysis and modelling
LifeWatch Research Infrastructure
Enhancing Biodiversity & Ecosystem Science
Support research at the system level
• Through a single portal for researchers,
policy makers, NGOs, private companies,
general public
• By supporting ‘collaborative networks’ working on urgent
scientific and societal questions
• Allow for studying complexity on much larger speeds
Facilitating data resources and trust
Users
E-Infrastructure
Composition
Resources
• Promote that related data
providers cooperate to
establish data integrators
• LifeWatch facilitates such
cooperation.
• Cooperating data networks
may establish their own (and
self-controlled) virtual
environment for data storage
and data management etc.
• Cost might be covered by
LifeWatch, but require
negotiation
Much larger speeds
• Advanced modeling algorithms
• Computational capacity
• Speed up data generation
– Sensors
– Empower human observation networks
– Earth observation as a proxy for direct in situ observations
• Earth observation currently mainly on ecological characteristics
• Consider species presence (and not the big species)
• Use the parameters as used in ecological niche modeling to
develop a suite of EO parameters for identifying potential species
presence.
– i.e. combination soil data, humidity fluctuations 5 cm bottom layer, vegetation
types, altidudes, etc)