The Standards Committee is responsible for defining and advising the development of data products and access protocols for the ARPA-E TERRA program. The committee consists of twelve core participants: one representative from each of the six funded projects and six independent experts. The committee will meet virtually each month and in person each year to discuss, develop, and revise data products, interfaces, and computing infrastructure.
TERRA Project Standards Committee representatives are expected to represent the interests of their TERRA team, their research community, and the institutions for which they work. External participants were chosen to represent specific areas of expertise and will provide feedback and guidance to help make the TERRA platform interoperable with existing and emerging sensing, informatics, and computing platforms.
Participate in monthly to quarterly teleconferences with the committee.
Provide expert advice.
Provide feedback from other intersted parties.
Participate in, or send delegate to, annual two-day workshops.
If we can efficiently agree on and adopt conventions, we will have more flexibility to use these workshops to train researchers, remove obstacles, and identify opportunities. This will be an opportunity for researchers to work with developers at NCSA and from the broader TERRA informatics and computing teams to identify what works, prioritize features, and move forward on research questions that require advanced computing.
August 2015: Establish committee, form a data plan
January 2016: v0 file standards
January 2017: v1 file standards, sample data sets
January 2018: mock data cube generator, standardized data products, simulated data
January 2019: standardized data products, simulated data
TERRA Project Representatives (6)
ARPA-E Program Representatives (2)
Board of External Advisors (6)
(numbers in parentheses are targets, for which we have funding)
Name
Institution
Coordinators
David Lee
ARPA-E
david.lee2_at_hq.doe.gov
David LeBauer
UIUC / NCSA
dlebauer_at_illinois.edu
TERRA Project Representatives
Paul Bartlett
Near Earth Autonomy
paul_at_nearearthautonomy.com
Jeff White
USDA ALARC
Jeffrey.White_at_ars.usda.gov
Melba Crawford
Purdue
melbac_at_purdue.edu
Mike Gore
Cornell
mag87_at_cornell.edu
Matt Colgan
Blue River
matt.c_at_bluerivert.com
Christer Janssen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
georg.jansson_at_pnnl.gov
Barnabas Poczos
Carnegie Mellon
bapoczos_at_cs.cmu.edu
Alex Thomasson
Texas A&M University
thomasson_at_tamu.edu
External Advisors
Cheryl Porter
ICASA / AgMIP / USDA
Shawn Serbin
Brookhaven National Lab
sserbin_at_bnl.gov
Shelly Petroy
NEON
spetroy_at_neoninc.org
Christine Laney
NEON
claney_at_neoninc.org
Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill
Iowa State
triffid_at_iastate.edu
Eric Lyons
University of Arizona / iPlant
ericlyons_at_email.arizona.edu