Presented at AIAA InfoTech Aerospace Conference 7 - 10 May 2007 Doubletree Hotel Sonoma Wine Country Rohnert Park, California

1. Improving Operational Space Responsiveness
Pat G. Cappelaere (pat@vightel.com)
D. Mandl
L. Derezinski
S. Frye
EO-1
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2. Responsive Space
A Better Question To Ask:
Has Rapid Space Deployment
Generated A Better
Operational Response From A
User’s Perspective
Magritte
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3. Operationally
Responsive Space
A New Business
Model
“This model designs military capabilities directly for the operational
commander. The key attribute of the Operationally Responsive Space business
model is that the field commanders drive the demand…”
Adm A. K. Cebrowski, OFT Director, 25 Mar, 2004
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4. TACSATs
TACSAT-1
TACSAT-2
TACSAT-3
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5. YASP (Yet Another Stove Pipe)
TACSAT-1
Tacsat-1 Copperfield
Tacsat-2 TIE
USCG D7 Matagorda, 110’
But: Where is the Don Matilde?
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6. NASA
Aura
Terra
EO-1
Aqua
IceSat
CALIPSO
ALTAIR
SOPHISTICATED PAYLOADS...
SO WE ARE GETTING DATA...
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7. Reality
Shortly after…
Sept 11
... about 2 weeks
Hurricane Katrina
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8. Know your Customer
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9. Problem Statement
• Restricted Data Access
• Science Data Rights
• We want to charge you (USGS)
• They Won’t Let You Have Access to It
• You Don’t Know Where the Data Is
• You Know Where it is But Don’t Know How to Get It
• Or You Can’t Have Access to It
• You Got It but Data Is Not in Right Format
• And It is Too Complicated to Process It Right
• Do Not Have a Scientist in the Trunk
• You Have Access to Satellite but It is Too
Complicated to Task From the Field
• Data/User Mismatch
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10. What Happened?
• Broader Audience
• Not just the engineers/scientists
• Many New Organizations Involved
• Broader Needs For Humanitarian Assistance/Emergency Response
• Plume, Contaminants, Oil Spills, Water..
• Those Users are Focused on Specific Products & Realtime Delivery
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11. They Do Not Care About Infrastructure Or Plumbing
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12. SensorWeb Enablement Concept
• Many SWE Data Nodes
SD
SD SD
• One or more Decision Support
Node
System
SD
SD
SD SD
• Standard OGC Interfaces
Node Node
SD SD
Decision Support System
Data Center
Public
User
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13. SensorWeb Enablement
EO-1 General Atomics Altair UAS Stilleto
SWE SWE SWE
• Users are shielded from
Implementation Specifics
Catalog
DSS
Service
• Assets are Discoverable
Using Catalog Services
User
Transparent User Access To Assets
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14. SWE Data Node OGC Components
• Sensor Planning Service (SPS)
• Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
• Web Feature Service (WFS)
• Sensor Alert Service (SAS)
• Auxiliary Services
• Web Mapping Service (WMS)
• Web Coverage Service (WCS)
• Web Coordinate Transformation Service (WCTS)
• Catalog Service (CS-W)
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15. DSS Easy Data Aggregation
• WFS-Basic / OpenSearch
• www.opengeospatial.org
• www.opensearch.org (Amazon)
• http://a9.com/
• GeoRSS Data Publishing & Mashup
• www.georss.org
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16. SensorWeb Today
• Many Specifications... Still Evolving... OGC OWS-5: Next Iteration
• Good News:
• Open Source Reference Implementation: Ruby on Rails, GeoBliki
• We Are Producing Data
• We Are Delivering Data Products to Our Customers Based on Subscriptions
(Pubsub)
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17. OWS-4
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18. OWS-4 EO Demo Participants
GeoBliki Vightel
Innovative
Corporation
Solutions
UAH VAST
GMU
Demis
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19. [Geo-Data] Mass Production
This is What We Achieved...
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20. But What Do We Really Need?
A Perfect Fit!
Custom Tailored Data Products For Customer Size=1 20

21. How Can We Get There?
• Automated Workflows
• Service-chains
• Bad News:
• BPEL, BPEL4WS, BPEL2.0…
• SOAP, WS-*
What Did We Do For OWS-4?
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22. GeoBrain
Still A Good Option
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23. A New and Lighter Alternative Using Standards
<process-definition
BPMN
xmlns:xsi=quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instancequot;
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=quot;http://www.openwfe.org/flowdef.xsdquot;
name=quot;EO1 Tasking Workflowquot;
revision=quot;0.1quot;
theme=quot;n/aquot;
security=quot;restrictedquot; >
<sequence>
<participant ref='XForms' task='RequestTasking’ comments='Enter EO-1
Tasking Parameters' />
<participant ref=quot;SPSquot; task='GetFeasibilities’ comments='Check EO-1
Tasking Feasibilities'/>
<participant ref='XForms' task='SelectFeasibility' comments='Select
Desired Feasibility' />
<cancel-process if=quot;${f:status} == 'cancelled'quot; />
<participant ref=quot;SPSquot; task='Submit'
comments='Submit Task to
JPL'/>
<cancel-process if=quot;${f:status} == 'cancelled'quot; />
<participant ref=quot;SOSquot; task='Publish' comments=quot;SOS will make raw
data availablequot;/>
<set field=quot;msgquot; value=quot;You've got dataquot; />
<participant ref=quot;WNS” task='Email' />
</sequence>
</process-definition>
To XML via XPDL 2.0 23

24. With Other Open Tools
• OpenWFEru
• Process Engine
• Ruby Rools
Ruby Rools
• Inference Engine
• XForms
• User Interface
And a RESTFul Approach… 24

25. Last Problem But Not The Least
And You Want Me to Let People I Do Not Know Task My Satellite?
• Identity 2.0
• Decentralized User Authentication
• Easy and Cheap to Implement
• User Centric/Open Source
• Relies on Trust among Cooperating Organizations/Entities
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26. / PKI Approach
SWE
IdP
https
DSS
Identity Propagation
Email Organization Access Rights
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27. Our Next Target: This Summer
For a More Operationally Responsive Space 27

28. Thank You!
• Pat Cappelaere, Vightel Corporation, MD
• pat@cappelaere.com
• Dan Mandl, NASA GSFC, MD
• dan.mandl@gsfc.nasa.gov
• Linda Derezinski, Innovative Solution, MD
• linda@i-sol.biz
• Stu Frye, Noblis, VA
• sfrye@noblis.org
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