= UK e-Science All-hands Meeting, Nottingham, 10-12 Sep. 2007 =
 * Peter's notes.
 * [http://www.allhands.org.uk/programme/index.cfm Programme and links to proceedings]
 * [http://www.allhands.org.uk/2007/proceedings/programme.htm Index to proceedings]

== Future of e-Science - Prof. Ken Brodie, UK e-Science Envoy ==
 * Summary of activity last year, e.g. National Grid Service, meetings, etc.
 * Recommended article: [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/publications/Wing06.pdf Computational thinking] by Jeanette Wing.
 * Swedish meeting: [http://www.vr.se/mainmenu/pressandnews/newsarchive/news/howcansciencebeimprovedbyescience.5.315d803911100fdce718000382.html How can science be improved by e-Science?]
 * Little on the future of e-Science.

== GEO Grid: Systems federating Geospatial Data and Services, Mr Satoshi Sekiguchi, Japan ==
 * Using ASTER data on Terra - archive 2000-date, 1.4 million images, 140 TB. VNIR 3 bands, SWIR several, TIR several. Together with 15m DEM.
 * e.g. Landslide volume estimation, volcano prediction, etc.
 * Uses OGC interfaces, simple workflow engines and user services e.g. thumbnail pages.

== Sharing and visualizing environmental data using Virtual Globes, Jon Blower, Reading e-Science Centre ==
 * [http://www.nesc.ac.uk/talks/ahm2007/792.ppt Presentation] and [http://www.allhands.org.uk/2007/proceedings/papers/792.pdf paper].
 * Virtual Globes - there are 30 of these (incl. GE, MS Virtual Earth, !FreeEarth, !ArcGIS Explorer, NASAS !WorldWind), many free!
 * Movie of Hurricane Katrina, cooling SST as intensifies, also CASIX, etc. 
 * BODC use GE as Discovery/Browse tool.
 * BAS use GE for King Penguin tracks overlaid on NEODAAS chl-a imagery.
 * Can extend the VG if open source, e.g. ArcGIS Explorer, NASA !WorldWind using .NET API.
 * OceanDIVA: Ocean data assimilation for ESSC using GE.
 * Vertical structure of ocean, tried 4 layers above ground(!) using GE, need extension.
 * GML for more complex datasets than KML can handle, a la NDG, though not many tools available yet. Should be used to encode data for true interoperability, needs concerted effort on feature types.
 * WebGIS are alternatives to VG, e.g. !GoogleMaps.
 * EU INSPIRE mandate - all public bodies must provide discovery/view/download services. 80% of all business/gov info has reference to location.


== Interoperability Session ==

=== JSDL Application Repository and Artefact Sharing Portal for Heterogeneous Grids and the NGS, David Meredith ===
 * JSDL is an XML language for describing requirements of computational nodes for submission to a grid.
 * Sits above middleware-specific job desc. languages, copes with grid heterogeneity.
 * Online demo of NGS Job Portal.

Two other talks in this session, not very relevant.

== Chat with Keith Haynes, Reading e-Science Centre ==
 * He demo'd Godiva2, nice Ajax-driven interface with clear date display/selection, nice 'fit data to window' and 'auto-colour-scale' buttons, automatic display of same region/closest time when switching datasets. We should learn from it.
 * [http://lovejoy.nerc-essc.ac.uk:8080/Godiva2/ Godiva2], [http://lovejoy.nerc-essc.ac.uk:8080/ncWMS/godiva2.html DEWS NetCDF version], [http://lovejoy.nerc-essc.ac.uk:8080/ncWMS/mersea.html MERSEA version].
 * Keith would like to have an NCOF version, also biological data from PML - I said this should be done through Tim's WCO, could go in other WMS servers in addition to the PML one.
 * I asked about Godiva2 for NDG visualisation, he said this should be possible if served as CF-netCDF by WMS.
 * I demo'd the PML WMS client, he thought it was quite fast and wondered if the images are pre-generated or on the fly, e.g. can we change colour scale?


== The Grand Challenge of Population Ageing: e-Science to the Rescue, Prof Thomas Kirkwood: University of Newcastle ==
 * Modelling cell development, web services, databases, FuGE-OM?


== Visualisation Session ==

=== A user interface framework for Grid-based computational steering and visualization.	Jason Wood ===
 * Quite interesting, uses Java tool eViz and extended skML to describe visualisation components and controls, generates user interface with minimal coding.
 * http://www.eviz.org/ 
 * Could be used in NDG?

=== Driving Google Earth from Fortran, Gen-Tao Chiang	===
 * Simple KML library, e.g. kmlBeginFile(...), kmlCreatePoints, ...Line, ...Contour, ...Cells (for 2D grid), can plot 2D grid by colour, contour or height, e.g. Greenland ice thickness
 * http://www.niees.ac.uk/wkml
 * Could wrap it into C, IDL, etc. Jon Blower suggested an IDL kml_write function for any generic data type as if a file format like GIF.

=== A Service Agreement Framework for Grid based Distributed Rendering, John T OBrien ===
 * e.g. RAVE, GVK, StreamAR.

== Data Handling and Service Deployment Session ==

=== Deploying visualization applications as remote services, Mark Riding ===
 * More on eViz, nice example of how to register a new visualisation tool.


== Booth demonstation sessions ==

=== BAS Research real-time display in GE, Peter xxx and Nathan ===
 * I added in near-real time EO data.
 * Nathan is coordinating GEO-Ocean user group, including me and Tim.

=== OceanDIVA - tools for presenting datasets in GE ===
 * Nice plots of model skill vs in situ

=== gSomething? - cluster submission & retrieval of data files ===
 * Transfers and deletes model output files from cluster to local computer.
 * This looks useful, and saves you needing your own login on the cluster.
 * Reading e-Science centre, can't remember what it was called.

== Evening ==
 * Chats with BAS people: Helen Campbell (Manager Antarctic Env. Data Centre), Nathan Cunningham; Peter Kirsch (Computer Applications).
 * We '''can''' have !GoogleEarth for internal use at work following clarified terms of service, see [http://www.ogleearth.com/2007/09/new_eula_for_go.html Ogle Earth blog]. What you can't do is sell products based on GE technology e.g. satnav for a car, or bulk downloads of GE layers.
 * Jon Blower recommends GE over the other virtual globes due to its handling of large datasets.
 * Ned Garnett, Coordinate of NERC part of e-Science programme, also involved in new 5-year NERC strategy. He referred to small continuation for NDG until Mar. 2008 for certain groups such as BAS to get their data discoverable, and get NDG tools operational.

== Medical Visualization Beyond 2D Images, Prof Anders Ynnerman: Linkoping University, Sweden ==
 * Excellent visualisations.
 * Transfer Function (TF) is used to control colouring/transparency of different tissues/blood/bone/air/foreign objects along path of CT scan. These colours then used in ray tracing for 3D volume rendering.
 * TF-based decompression of volume data: transparent data block can be ignored, uniform colour can be vis at lower-res. Allows 64:1 reduction of data volume with small errors, allows real-time vis on smaller computers or bigger volumes on big computers.
 * Virtual autopsy for investigating whole-body CT without need for real autopsy or more information, e.g. bullet fragments.
 * Haptic pen for use on transparent mirror projection screen on animated sequences, pen is moved by beating heart and blood flows.


== JISC's role in building a UK e-Infrastructure, Prof John Wood: Imperial College London ==