Climate Change is an extraordinary challenge for the development of our socioeconomic environment. The compilation of comprehensive knowledge about our physical environment is a key importance for implementing of mitigation strategies. Long- term terrestrial observatories are supporting the systematic monitoring of environmental parameters. They are responsible for data collection, data analysis and subsequently for decision support. Not only the complex structure and the large volume of data streams but also the necessary integration of existing monitoring infrastructures for such observatories imply special technological challenges for today’s scientific data and information management. Recent developments of Information and Communication Technology provide important conceptual and technological input for the proper design and implementation of underlying monitoring and data infrastructures. To avoid constantly recurring system developments for such infrastructures, a general and integrated approach for a reference architecture concept is needed.

1. The Design of Monitoring and Data Infrastructures – Applying a forward-thinking Reference Architecture
Matthias Schroeder, Vivien Stender, Jens Klump, and Joachim Wächter
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Ralf Kunkel
Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG), Research Centre Jülich, Germany

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•Introduction
•Challenges for TERENO Northeast (NE)
•General Architecture Concept
•Integrated Reference Architecture Model
•Perspectives
•Closing Up
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INTRODUCTION
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TERENO NORTHEAST
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6. Establishing a monitoring infrastructure for:
•Data Management,
•Data Workflows,
•Data Modeling,
•and Visualizations.
Special challenges are:
•Heterogeneous data sources
•Large volumes of data streams
•Integration in existing infrastructures
•Various tasks like acquisition, processing, visualization, and archiving
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CHALLENGES FOR TERENO (NE)
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10. •Use SOA principles and Enter- prise Service Bus (ESB) tech- nologies
•Use of Observation & Measure- ment (O&M)
•Use Sensor Model Language (SensorML)
•Use of Sensor Web Enablement and OGC Web Services like
–SOS
–WMS/WFS
–CSW
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12. •Need of Integrated Reference Architecture (IRA) for similar sensor integration purposes
•The SSB-component has to be simplified to exclude real-time applications
•SSB has to be enlarged for purposes of long term archiving
•In future: Need of easy to use tools for pre-selecting and downloading specific content of data infrastructure
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PERSPECTIVES
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13. •Five environmental observatories within TERENO NE
•Data management group objective is an integrated and general reference architecture as reference model
•Data of all observatories are published through standardized web services
•It allows the reuse and interoperability of the architecture
•Refinement of single design steps and full implementation
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CLOSING UP
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