CEOS ICS provides a unique forum for the exchange of information and experience related to catalog interoperability for Earth Observation Systems. The combined CEOS Agency inputs return both operational and engineering benefits to the agency.

Task Team Focus:

• Federated Management
• Validate new components before they are made available on an operational basis.
• Monitor operational components of system
• Coordinate help desks among CEOS agency help desks for the users
• Provide a systems level technical team to provide technical consulting for the system wide interoperability interface layer.
• Collections Maintenance
• Valids Maintenance
• Testing Group
• Operations Group
• Move from 2-Tier to 3-Tier architecture
• Clusters of data providers centered around Retrieval Managers
• Interoperability with other Z39.50 federations
• CIP (CEOS Catalogue Interoperable Protocol) Interoperability
• CIP/IMS/IDN Interoperability
• Sharing of CIP based software
• Coordinated testing
• Collections Management
• Protocol Task Team Document Completion and Maintenance
• Complete Order Options, Collections Manual, Valids Document and Guide design
• Establish maintenance of CIP Specification and ICS SDD, e.g., implementors agreements
• Foster CIP Based Implementations Collaborate CIP with other standards bodies: ISO, GEO, OGC
• Review and discuss future technology relevant to Catalogue Interoperability

Projects

Agency programs currently using Task Team results:

• DLR ISIS/DIMS
• ESA MUIS
• EC/CEO INFEO project (responsibility moved to ESA since 2001)
• NASA EOSDIS
• CCRS CEONet Project
• NASDA EOIS
• IGBP

The CIP documentation is maintained at the following URL: http://wgiss.ceos.org/ics/documentation.html

The INFEO project has been subsequently renamed eoPortal, an ESA initiative; the operational interoperable catalogue systems can be accessed through the eoPortal catalogue client at http://catalogues.eoportal.org

A number of agencies have industrial contracts assigned to CIP activities.

Important Dates:

• CIP Release B Interoperability between CEOS agencies
• CIP Client Access to IMS servers
• IMS Client Access to CIP servers
• Ratification of CIP Order Options Amendment
• Ratification of ICS Collections Manual
• Ratification of ICS Valids Document
• Development of ICS Guide Approach

Dependencies:
The task team interfaces with WGISS IDN Task Team for harmonization of information and service methods WGISS Network Task Team for network bandwidth and security needed to support catalog interoperability

Duration of Task Team:
Ongoing

Completed Projects:

• CIP Release B Interoperability between CEOS agencies
• CIP Client Access to IMS servers
• IMS Client Access to CIP servers
• Ratification of CIP Order Options Amendment
• Ratification of ICS Collections Manual
• Ratification of ICS Valids Document
• Development of ICS Guide Approach

Task Team Mailing List:
ics@wgiss.ceos.org

Task Team Lead Name and Contact Information:
Jolyon Martin
ESA ESRIN
Via Galileo Galilei,CP 64
00044 FRASCATI, Italy

(+39)0694180663 (voice)
(+39)0694180612 (fax)
Jolyon.Martin@esa.int (Internet)

Task Team Members:

Name

Kengo Aizawa, RESTEC

Bernhard Buckl, DLR/DFD

Ben Burford, RESTEC

Chao-Hsi Chang, NASA

Meixia Deng, NASA

Yonsook Enloe, NASA/GSFC

Guenther Landgraf, ESA

Jolyon Martin, ESA

Roman M. Parparov, NASA ISA-MEIDA

Ivan Petiteville, ESA

Ananth Rao, NASA/SGT

Lou Reich, NASA

Ivan Petiteville, ESA

Jean-Marie Wallut, CNES

Archie Warnock, NASA

Jingli Yang, NASA