Document being drafted.
An FDA webinar was conducted in collaboration with WGCapD providing an introduction to the elements of the FDA.
Authoring of the whitepaper has stalled due to insufficient co-author collaboration. WGISS is seeking additional volunteers from a broader range of CEOS agencies to ensure a more complete representation in the authorship. It is anticipated this will be a little easier now that many agenices had conducted at least one major FDA related development and thus have a greater understanding of what the common architecture is.
Progress and structureof the FDA-08 white paper was discussed at WGISS-48. Construction of single FDA architectural view was proving problematic, particularly because the result becomes far more prescriptive on architecture than is intended. A prescriptive approach would not support adoption by CEOS agencies of elements of FDA as is occuring in practice. A revised approach has been agreed and rather than a single white paper there will be a set of underlying papers on the key elements of FDA (e.g. Cloud native data formats, STAC metadata, ODC-API and evolutions, Data Cube interoperability with links to ARD).
It is expected a set of focussed documents will be more accessible and more amenable to adoption to a broader range of agencies.
CLOSED as OBE: awaiting new deliverable on EAIL.
This action is in the process of being split into several smaller, more manageable actions now the agency FDA approaches are more mature and the touch points for interoperability can be seen.