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IN33E-07: Collaboration Portals for NASA’s Airborne Field Campaigns

IN33E-07: Collaboration Portals for NASA’s Airborne Field Campaigns . Helen Conover; Ajinkya Kulkarni; Michele Garrett; Michael Goodman; Walter A. Petersen; Marilyn Drewry; Danny M. Hardin; Matt He The University of Alabama in Huntsville Presented by Danny Hardin.

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IN33E-07: Collaboration Portals for NASA’s Airborne Field Campaigns

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  1. IN33E-07: Collaboration Portals for NASA’s Airborne Field Campaigns Helen Conover; Ajinkya Kulkarni; Michele Garrett; Michael Goodman; Walter A. Petersen; Marilyn Drewry; Danny M. Hardin; Matt He The University of Alabama in Huntsville Presented by Danny Hardin

  2. NASA’s Hurricane Science Field Campaigns 1998 2006 2010 2001 2002 2011 2007 2008 2005

  3. NASA Research Aircraft & Instruments in GRIP 2010

  4. Pre Mission Activities • Procure and install hardware/software • Collect instrument and data descriptions from PI’s and Instrument Scientists • Begin with questionnaire • Follow up with email and phone • Make special arrangements required by science/instrument team • E.g. Access to restricted data; collect subset and post data for forecasters • Update database schema for data delivered during and after mission • Develop/Modify On-Line Collaboration Portal • Participate in planning conference calls and meetings • Train PI’s and Scientists (or their assistants) • Logging into the portal • Finding things on the portal • How to upload documents, data and images • How to create and save reports

  5. Activities During a Mission • Deploy personnel to mission site(s) • System Administrators • Data engineers • Programmers • Work directly with team to “encourage” • them to use the provided tools • Ensure that tools work on all team member’s laptops • Troubleshoot connectivity and other problems • Gather information from PI’s and enter it ourselves if necessary • Coordinate with Huntsville based team to ensure smooth operations • Monitor FTP server, database activity, and portal operations • Respond to requested changes to the portal and tools – Yes, during the mission • Fly onboard research aircraft to support aircraft – ground communications

  6. ActivitiesAfter a Mission • Work with scientists to transition their finalized data products to GHRC • Maintain preliminary data holdings for scientist’s use • Populate metadata catalogs • Transition active portal to post mission usage • Deactivate functionality that was designed only for the active mission e.g. entry of reports, new account requests • Check to make sure all field data are transitioned to GHRC systems • Support post mission meetings • Acquire official aircraft flight tracks to fill gaps

  7. Collaborative Environment for the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Mission

  8. All Reports Archived at GHRC Reports are exported to the GHRC following the mission and treated as an ancillary data set. GHRC Catalog & ECHO/Reverb

  9. Field Campaign Data is Available from the GHRC Convection and Moisture Experiment - 4 Data From Instruments Aboard the DC-8

  10. The Collaborative Environment for theMid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment

  11. Instrument/Platform Scientist Reports

  12. Data Calendar

  13. “Quicklook” Data May be Accessed

  14. RTMM Flight Tracker Aircraft locations and flight tracks are drawn over the map here and updated as the aircraft move. The aircraft tracks and waypoints are selected here.

  15. GOES IR Overlay Imagery can be toggled on and off. This image shows an overlay of GOES IR.

  16. NEXRAD Radar and Sea Surface Temperature Data These layers can be added to imagers as desired. This shows NEXRAD data near Houston TX, where the WB 57 is based, and SST data in the Gulf of Mexico

  17. Abstract ABSTRACT BODY: The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), in collaboration with the Global Hydrology Resource Center, a NASA Earth Science Data Center, has provided information management for a number of NASA Airborne Field campaigns, both hurricane science investigations and satellite instrument validation. Effective field campaign management requires communication and coordination tools, including utilities for personnel to upload and share flight plans, weather forecasts, a variety of mission reports, preliminary science data, and personal photos. Beginning with the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) hurricane field campaign in 2010, we have provided these capabilities via a Drupal-based collaboration portal. This portal was reused and modified for the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), part of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission ground validation program. An end goal of these development efforts is the creation of a Drupal profile for field campaign management. This presentation will discuss experiences with Drupal in developing and using these collaboration portals. Topics will include Drupal modules used, advantages and disadvantages of working with Drupal in this context, and how the science teams used the portals in comparison with other communication and collaboration tools.

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