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3. IT needs and Capabilities: Web Services Community interaction during events through virtual workgroup sites; quantitative now-casting and observation-augmented forecasting Smoke event summary and forecast suitably packaged and delivered for agency and public decision makers Uncoordinated event monitoring, serendipitous and limited analysis. Event summary by qualitative description and illustration Smoke event summary and forecast for managers (air quality, aviation safety) and the public Services linking tools Service chaining languages for building web applications; Data browsers, data processing chains; Tools for navigating spatio-temporal data; User-defined views of the smoke; Conceptual framework for merging satellite, surface and modeling data Most tools are personal, dataset specific and ‘hand made’ Analysis tools for data browsing, fusion and data/model integration Web services for data registration, geo-time-parameter referencing, non-intrusive addition of ad hoc data; communal tools for data finding, extracting Agents (services) to seamlessly access distributed data and provide uniformly presented views of the smoke. Human analysts access a fraction of a subset of qualitative satellite images and some surface monitoring data, Limited real-time data downloaded from providers, extracted, geo-time-param-coded, etc. by each analyst Real-time access to routine and ad-hoc fire, smoke, transport data/ and models How to get there New capabilities Current state IT need vision

7. Generic Data Flow and Processing for Browsing DataView 1 Data Processed Data Portrayed Data Process Data Portrayal/ Render Abstract Data Access View Wrapper Physical Data Abstract Data Physical Data Resides in autonomous servers; accessed non-intrusively by data and view-specific wrappers Abstract Data Abstract data slices are requested by viewers; uniform data are delivered by wrapper services DataView 2 DataView 3 View Data Processed data are delivered to the user as multi-layer views by portrayal and overlay web services Processed Data Data passed through filtering, aggregation, fusion and other processing web services