Soils to Satellites Soils to Satellites NCRIS Capabilities

Soils to Satellites

Soils to Satellites NCRIS Capabilities Well Placed NCRIS capabilities have access to: • Vast volumes of Data (uniformly and non-uniformly structured) • High levels of Technical Expertise • Advanced Technology & Technical Infrastructure.

ALA and ÆKOS – data comparison AEKOS supports rich, plot-based ecological data and leverages ALA complementary expertise in systematics, biodiversity and spatial platforms Biodiversity Data - ALA • Systematics – classification • Breadth of life domains • Rich spatial layers for location and environmental context and analysis • 36 m records - Museums and Herbaria, State agencies, NRMs, Citizen science • Concentrates on species and specimen data and profiles Ecological Data – ÆKOS • Rich plot-based data • Depth of single domain • Contextual environmental observations • Semantically federated and integrated complex data • Output flexibility (first pass to greater detail) • Describes biodiversity ‘look & feel’ (ecosystem dynamics)

Soils to Satellites Greater Synergies Possible Greater synergies between NCRIS capabilities possible by: • Increasing cross-capability collaboration and communication • Improving interoperability between NCRIS systems (including integration with nonuniformly structured data e. g. ecological & biodiversity data) • Gaining familiarity of each other’s capabilities. • Leverages existing and mature ALA web services infrastructure

Soils to Satellites addresses these needs Incubator project to: • demonstrate • • • integration of disparate data independent of structure and standards collaboration and cooperation between NCRIS capabilities Value and power of ALA web services contribute to and enrich ANDS Research Data Australia platform generate ‘real world’ feedback for future iterations.

Soils to Satellites Project Overview • Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Applications Project • July 2012 – June 2013 • Project Partners: • TERN Eco-informatics • Atlas of Living Australia (CSIRO) • Collaborators: • TERN MSPN/TREND • TERN Aus. Cover

Soils to Satellites Integration of disparate data TREND & Ausplots ecological data (ÆKOS, CSIRO NSA) • Plot-based plant community data • Soil characterisation data - structure, p. H , nutrients, carbon etc Atlas of Living Australia (spatially represented data) • Species occurrence and distribution data • Environmental characteristics TERN Aus. Cover (biophysical remote sensing data) • multi-spectral characteristics of site. TREND genomics data (BPA, SARDI, BGI, BOLD) • Opaque “blobs” of genomics data including barcode sequences, Soil Metagenomics data , isotope data

Soils to Satellites Collaboration & Co-operation - bringing together technical expertise and technological infrastructure for mutual benefit.

Soils to Satellites Benefits • Enables plot and data to be explored in new ways • Exposes relationships not previously possible. • Addresses science questions • Community composition and turn-over along environmental gradients • Genetic differentiation and flow • Understanding environmental drivers • Current and predicted future species distributions • Climate resilient and sensitive communities/refugia. Now 2050

Soils to Satellites Specific System Capabilities • • • Discover study locations using a wide range of criteria Explore data from these locations, including data from multiple site visits Compare survey, biodiversity and environmental data between study locations and visits Extract data for offline analysis Provide assistance to researchers in selecting relevant data depending on the research question

Visualisation Outputs Single Study Location Summary

Visualisation Outputs Multiple Study Location Comparison Number of distinct plant species (67 study locations - Ausplots) With corresponding rainfall comparison (ALA)

Visualisation Outputs Multiple Study Location Summary

Visualisation Outputs Single Study Location Visit Summary

Visualisation Outputs Multiple Study Location Visit Comparisons

Soils to Satellites A “live” system!

This project is supported by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program and the Education Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative