Title
GEOSS Component and Service Registry: Design, Implementation and Lessons Learned
Abstract
Petabytes of Earth science data have been accumulated through space- and air-borne Earth observation programs during the last several decades. The data are valuable both scientifically and socioeconomically. The value of these data could be further increased significantly if the data from these programs can be easily discovered, accessed, integrated, and analyzed. The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is addressing this need. In particular, the GEOSS Component and Service Registry maintains the descriptive information about available Earth Observation resources that are self-nominated by providers. This registry provides the following capabilities for data providers: user registration, resource registration, and service interface registration. It enables data users to discover these resources through the dedicated graphical user interfaces. It also exposes machine-to-machine interfaces to other GEOSS core components. The captured functional requirements, system design and implementation details of this registry are introduced in this paper, followed by the analysis of the registered resources and the system accessing information. The discussion on the strengths of this registry, the limitations in its current form, and the lessons learned from the system maintenance and upgrade over the last five years may be useful to others building a centralized managed resource catalog to enable a large-scale integrated system following a system-of-systems approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2215914
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of
Keywords
Field
DocType
geophysics computing,geoss component,system-of-systems approach,global earth observation system of systems (geoss),service interface registration,earth observation resources,earth science data,geographic information systems,data analysis,component and service registry,descriptive information,data acquisition,resource registration,graphical user interfaces,machine-to-machine interfaces,user registration,metadata,space-borne earth observation programs,air-borne earth observation programs,global earth observation system of systems,geoss service registry
Functional requirement,Geographic information system,World Wide Web,Petabyte,Remote sensing,Systems design,Upgrade,Graphical user interface,Earth observation,Global Earth Observation System of Systems,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
6
1939-1404
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
2
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuqi Bai110614.75
Liping Di281198.92
Douglas D. Nebert340.52
Aijun Chen411911.17
Yaxing Wei520217.42
Xuanang Cheng640.52
Yuanzheng Shao7455.33
Dayong Shen8331.72
Ranjay M. Shrestha940.52
Huilin Wang10161.92