Comments on: AIRNow-International: The Future of the United States Real-time Air Quality Reporting and Forecasting Program with GEOSS participation http://www.earthzine.org/2010/01/25/airnow-international-the-future-of-the-united-states-real-time-air-quality-reporting-and-forecasting-program-with-geoss-participation/ Fostering Earth Observation and Global Awareness Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:04:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John E. White http://www.earthzine.org/2010/01/25/airnow-international-the-future-of-the-united-states-real-time-air-quality-reporting-and-forecasting-program-with-geoss-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-21288 John E. White Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:02:39 +0000 http://www.earthzine.org/?p=209472#comment-21288 Hi Eliot. CAP was not created in GEO. It looks like it was created by a group called OASIS, which appears to be similar to OGC. CAP was being pushed within GEO by NOAA. EPA then asked if AIRNow could support it. So, it's not a GEO initiative per se....but CAP is referenced in the GEOSS Standards Registry: http://seabass.ieee.org/groups/geoss/index.php?option=com_sir_200&Itemid=157&ID=46 Hi Eliot. CAP was not created in GEO. It looks like it was created by a group called OASIS, which appears to be similar to OGC. CAP was being pushed within GEO by NOAA. EPA then asked if AIRNow could support it.

So, it’s not a GEO initiative per se….but CAP is referenced in the GEOSS Standards Registry:

http://seabass.ieee.org/groups/geoss/index.php?option=com_sir_200&Itemid=157&ID=46

]]> By: Tim Hewison http://www.earthzine.org/2010/01/25/airnow-international-the-future-of-the-united-states-real-time-air-quality-reporting-and-forecasting-program-with-geoss-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-21274 Tim Hewison Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:52:56 +0000 http://www.earthzine.org/?p=209472#comment-21274 I think the GEO involvement is through GEONETCast. There are currently plans to distribute CAP alerts through the alert channels of GEONETCast: http://www.earthobservations.org/geonetcast.shtml Tim I think the GEO involvement is through GEONETCast. There are currently plans to distribute CAP alerts through the alert channels of GEONETCast:
http://www.earthobservations.org/geonetcast.shtml

Tim

]]> By: Eliot Christian http://www.earthzine.org/2010/01/25/airnow-international-the-future-of-the-united-states-real-time-air-quality-reporting-and-forecasting-program-with-geoss-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-21240 Eliot Christian Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:00:10 +0000 http://www.earthzine.org/?p=209472#comment-21240 Interesting quote: the AIRNow-International program will support the GEO initiative of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) to integrate air quality alerts into CAP’s all-hazards, all-media approach. CAP is a standardized format for exchanging public warnings, which can be consistently disseminated simultaneously over various warning systems and applications. Can someone point me to where in GEO there is a CAP initiative? Interesting quote:

the AIRNow-International program will support the GEO initiative of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) to integrate air quality alerts into CAP’s all-hazards, all-media approach. CAP is a standardized format for exchanging public warnings, which can be consistently disseminated simultaneously over various warning systems and applications.

Can someone point me to where in GEO there is a CAP initiative?

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