The GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot, Phase 2 has been completed with leadership by the Open Geospatial Consortium. The AIP-2 Pilot activity, which began in September 2008, is a project of the GEO AR-09-01b Task Team. OGC’s activities in AIP-2 were sponsored in part by the USGS, ERDAS, Northrop Grumman and the European Space Agency. AIP-1 demonstrated GEO Portal and Clearinghouse solutions. AIP-2 established "operational, research and technical exemplars", services that support several of the GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas: Disaster Management, Biodiversity and Climate Change, Air Quality and Health, and Renewable Energy.
AIP-2 Engineering Reports are available for use by organizations in and outside of GEOSS. Videos of demonstrations developed in AIP-2 for six Communities of Practice are posted on the OGC website.
GEO Members and Participating Organizations provided components and services relevant to SBAs. They also participated in interoperability testing of the services to validate the architecture and in the collaborative refinement of societal benefit scenarios to guide testing, demonstrations and operations of interoperable services.
AIP-2 developed a reusable process for Societal Benefit Areas to utilize the GEOSS Common Infrastructure. This process supports efficient communication and also implementation of SBA requirements and work processes into the informatics technology of the GCI. GCI is built upon GEOSS Interoperability Arrangements, including several OGC standards. As a result of AIP-2, the number and quality of GEOSS components has increased, and these will be exhibited at the GEO Plenary in November 2009.
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