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Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal

Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. USDA Forest Service Tim Tolle. Oregon Graduate Institute Lois Delcambre. Partnership. Co-Project Directors. USDA Forest Service Tim Tolle. Oregon Graduate Institute *

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Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal

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  1. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM

  2. USDA Forest Service Tim Tolle Oregon Graduate Institute Lois Delcambre Partnership Co-Project Directors

  3. USDA Forest Service Tim Tolle Oregon Graduate Institute* Lois Delcambre Details… • *On July 1, 2001 • Oregon Graduate Institute  School of Science & Engineering • of the • Oregon Health Sciences University  Oregon Health & Science University

  4. Presentation • Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre • Application Context; Progress to DateTim Tolle • Metadata++ to Exploit Rich StructureMat Weaver

  5. Project Funding • Duration: 3 years • Budget: $1.5 million • Principal financial sponsors • National Science Foundation • Bureau of Land Management (Oregon State Office) • Forest Service (R-6 and PNW Station) • National Park Service (Western Region)

  6. Computer Science Lois Delcambre Dave Maier Mat Weaver Shawn Bowers Management in Science & Tech. Fred Phillips Environmental Science & Engineering Patty Toccalino Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute

  7. Computer Science Lois Delcambre Dave Maier Mat Weaver Shawn Bowers Rupa Tummala Sun Murthy Management in Science & Tech. Fred Phillips Nicole Steckler Two grad. students Environmental Science & Engineering Patty Toccalino Julia Norman Additional Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute

  8. Computer Science Lois Delcambre Dave Maier Mat Weaver Shawn Bowers Rupa Tummala Sun Murthy Management in Science & Tech. Fred Phillips Nicole Steckler Two grad. students Environmental Science & Engineering Patty Toccalino Julia Norman Other Additional Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute Dave Hansen Undergraduate students On-site High school apprentice Kinley Campbell Emily Langston Jordan Wirfs-Brock High school apprentice

  9. Team Members Tim Tolle Regional Coordinator for AMA, US Forest Service Eric Landis Forest Information System Specialist, Consultant Craig Palmer Natural Resources Monitoring Expert, UNLV Fred Phillips Professor, Head, Mgt. of Science and Tech., OGI Patty Toccalino Asst. Prof., Environmental Science and Eng., OGI Lois Delcambre Professor, Computer Science and Eng., OGI David Maier Shawn Bowers Mat Weaver Professor, Computer Science and Eng., OGI PhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGI PhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGI

  10. Advisory Board Co-Inventor of the Topic Map Model Michel Biezunski President, IUFRO, Oxford Forestry Institute, Dept of Plant Sciences Jeff Burley USDA Forest Service, Pacific NW Region Robert Devlin Martin Goebel Sustainable Northwest MD, Asst. Professor, Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research, OHSU Paul Gorman Executive Director, IMFN Secretariat Fred Johnson Chief, Office of Technical Support, Forest Resources, USDI Fish and Wildlife Service Monty Knudsen Communications Director, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station Cynthia L. Miner Science Advisor, USDI, National Park Service Regina Rochefort Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Mark Whiting Forest/environmental expertise Computer science expertise

  11. USDA Forest Service Oregon Graduate Institute A Predisposition for Collaboration application-motivated research interest in seeing results applied science culture holds a PhD

  12. USDA Forest Service Oregon Graduate Institute Predisposition: Safeguards “simplifying assumptions…” “narrow focus…” “deployment?!” “why 3 years?” “..trouble with my C: drive” “…programmers!”

  13. Tactics • Academics “tag along” with Tim…. • Field trips…to Rainier National Park, OSU, … • Monthly, all-hands team lunches • Guest spots…at research meetings • The coffee shop around the corner

  14. About Choosing Partners It’s a miracle

  15. Presentation • Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre • Application Context; Progress to DateTim Tolle • Metadata++ to Exploit Rich StructureMat Weaver

  16. Presentation • Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre • Application Context; Progress to DateTim Tolle • Metadata++ to Exploit Rich StructureMat Weaver

  17. What is Superimposed Information? data “placed over” existing information sources to: • highlight • annotate • elaborate • select • collect • organize • connect • reuse information elements often to support new applications, beyond the original

  18. Examples of Superimposed Information • Non-electronic examples: • Commentaries on religious texts, law, literature • Concordances, citation indexes • Electronic examples: • Your bookmark file in your web browser • RDF metadata

  19. Why work on it now? • Broadening range of digital information • Accessibility/addressability to base information • Reference (e.g., URL) can be resolved quickly • Addressing at various levels of granularity • Emerging Standards: RDF, Topic Maps, Xlink • Emerging Applications: • Third Voice, Multi-Valent Documents, ...

  20. The superimposed and base layers with marks Superimposed Layer marks Base Layer Information Source1 Information Source2 Information Sourcen … Focus: building generic technology

  21. Superimposed Applications superimposed application base application1 web browser (with extra functions such as annotation) ... base application2 enhanced base layer application simultaneous use of base and superimposed applications

  22. Building the Sandbox …to support similarity searchacross multiple domains

  23. Documents • “Document” used very loosely – could be just about anything • Vary in format (text, map, dataset, …) • Vary in purpose (formal assessment, informal letter, …)

  24. Traditional Metadata • Fields with values • May or may not use “controlled vocabulary” • Allows for basic searches Author: Parley Pratt Purpose: Environmental Assessment Location: Wenatchee National Forest Keyword: Interstate 90 Keyword: Snoqualmie Pass

  25. Enhanced Metadata Environmental Assessment • Instead of fields and values, we use explicit properties and terms • Metadata is represented by connecting a document with a term via a property Parley Pratt Purpose Wenatchee National Forest Author Location Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass

  26. Enhanced Metadata Keyword Snoqualmie Pass NEPA Interstate 90 Purpose Environmental Assessment Location Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Author Editor Parley Pratt

  27. Super Enhanced Metadata Keyword Snoqualmie Pass NEPA Explicit hierarchy of properties and terms allows for enhanced searching. Interstate 90 Purpose Environmental Assessment Location Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Author Editor Parley Pratt

  28. Super-Duper Enhanced Metadata Keyword Snoqualmie Pass NEPA Interstate 90 Purpose Environmental Assessment Additional relationships of various types between terms allow for super-duper enhanced searching (i.e. similarity search, …) Location Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Western Hemlock Author Editor Parley Pratt

  29. For More Information • www.cse.ogi.edu/footprints • www.cse.ogi.edu/forest • lmd@cse.ogi.edu Lois Delcambre • maier@cse.ogi.edu Dave Maier • shawn@cse.ogi.edu Shawn Bowers • mweaver@cse.ogi.edu Mat Weaver

  30. Project focuses on the: Adaptive Management Areas USDA Forest Service USDI Bureau of Land Management USDI Fish and Wildlife Service

  31. Adaptive Management Portal:a value-added, Internet-based service • Provide multiple access paths to forest information. • Preserve local autonomy and local focus of each site. • Support diverse users and types of information. • Use proposed, existing, and de facto standards for content, classification, and technology. • Be low-cost, scalable, extensible.

  32. Task 1 – Status • Workshops @ Snoqualmie Pass Adaptive Management Area, Cle Elum, WA (June and July) • Interviews with Forest Service Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab and USGS FRESC, Corvallis (August) • Interviews with Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area, Eugene (August) • Interviews with the Applegate Partnership and its associated agencies (August) • Rainier National Park (planned for October)

  33. Things we’ve learned from Task 1 NSF Digital Government • work is project-based • multiple agencies are involved • each agency serves as information gatherer; information broker; information consumer • primary product is information: assessments, studies, surveys, environmental impact statements • even though information is a primary product, information technology is secondary (stewardship of the land is the primary mission)

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