Integrating Seismic Events Focal Mechanisms with Image Services in Kepler

Geosciences Network (GEON) is a grand-challenge project to prototype cyberinfrastructure for the Earth Sciences. GEON is building a mechanism for integration and visualization of seismic events and their related fault orientations--referred by seismologists as focal mechanisms (or "beach balls") with other image (map) services using a service oriented architecture (SOA). The Kepler scientific workflow system provides capabilities to harvest and query datasets and services and process data using local and remote services. Using a workflow, we can combine the harvested datasets (such as seismic event locations) or map services of various formats with matching beach ball symbols, retrieved from a beach ball images database, for seismic events. The result is processed into a new dataset, using an ASCII to shapefile service, and integrated and visualized with other image services using ArcIMS. The new dataset can also be registered and searched within the GEONsearch registry.