Department:	R&D Information and Observation Technology
Room:	B2.18
Phone:	+31 30 2206871
Alt. phone:	+31 30 2206870

Expertise and Achievements 2006-2008

Expertise:

• Design of ICT architectures
• Data infrastructures
• (Data)Grid applications
• Databases (MySQL/PostGreSQL)

Achievements 2007-2008

• Organisation of 3rd DEGREE workshop (May 8-9, KNMI)
• Convener of 'Grids for Geosciences Applications' at the EGU 2008, Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) program group (April 2008)
• INSPIRE: Impact analysis for KNMI (December 2007)
• DEGREE project: Test suite design (September 2007)

Task

As a 'senior consultant/specialist', aka researcher my mayor tasks are to run projects in small teams, aimed at improving the KNMI data infrastructure.

Projecs

• Internal KNMI
• INSPIRE workgroup (teamleader)
• External
• Netherlands Sciamachy Data Center, NL-SCIA-DC
  in three projects: SciaMAX, SciaGRID, SciaVisie (NIVR projects)
• PROMOTE (ESA project)
• Dissemination and Exploitation of Grids in Earth Science, DEGREE (EU FP6 project)
• Atmospheric Data Access for the Geospatial User Community, ADAGUC (Dutch RGI project)

Publications, Reports and Presentations

Publications:

Dissemination and exploitation of Grids in Earth Science
European Geophysical Union Conference, Vienna, Austria, 14-18 April, 2008
Hluchy, L., M. Petitdidier, W. Som de Cerff, H. Schwichtenberg, V. Tran, J. Linford, L. Fusco

Earth Science requirements tracing using test suites,
EGEE'07, Budapest 1-5 October, Hungary
Som de Cerff W., M. Petitdidier, H. Schwichtenberg, V. Tran,

Using Grid services for Sciamachy data sharing and processing
EGEE User Forum 9-11 May 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom
Mr. VAN DE VEGTE, John (KNMI), Mr. SOM DE CERFF, Wim (KNMI), Dr. VAN HEES, Richard (SRON), Mr. VAN DER NEUT, Ian (KNMI), Dr. WOLFRAT, Jules (SARA), Dr. GROEP, David (NIKHEF), Mr. COLIN, Olivier (ESA-ESRIN), Dr. PITERS, Ankie (KNMI)
abstract

Earth Science family of applications and their Grid requirements,
European Geophysical Union Conference, Vienna, Austria, 16-20 April, 2007.
Som de Cerff, W,

Grid infrastructure for geosciences data services,
European Geophysical Union Conference, Vienna, Austria, 16-20 April, 2007
Petitdidier, M., D. Weissenbach, W. Som de Cerff, and H. Schwichtenberg

Dissemination and exploitation of grids in Earth Science.
W. Som de Cerff, M. Petitdidier, M. Lonjaret, L. Fusco, J. Linford, L. Hluchy, M. Dobrucky, V. Tran, H. Schwichtenberg, J. van de Vegte, C. Plevier, M. Zhinzhin
Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XI, R.Meynart, S.P.Neeck, H.Shimodal, S.Habib, Eds., Proceedings of the SPIE Europe remote sensing Conference, 17-20 September, Firenze, Italy. pp. 67442F-1 to 67442F-7, ISBN 978-0-8194-69021 paper

Development of the KNMI Operational Data Center (KODAC)
W.J. Som de Cerff, F. van der Wel, John van de Vegte, I.A. van der Neut, Maarten van der Hoeven
"5th EMS/ECAM, September, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Development of the KNMI Operational data Center
W.J. Som de Cerff, F. van der Wel, John van de Vegte, I.A. van der Neut, Maarten van der Hoeven
"11th EC-GI&GIS Workshop",July 2005, Alghero, Sardinia

The NL-SCIA-DC status and future [abstact | poster]
W.J. Som de Cerff, J. van de Vegte, I.A. van der Neut, R.M. van Hees
"Aardobservatie Toegepast", Symposium Nationaal Programm Gebruikersondersteuning (GO), 12 november 2004, Utrecht
Abstracts posterpresentaties
*NOTE* winning poster of the poster competition (price: 5,000 euro for travel

OMI Dutch Processing System (ODPS) [abstact | poster]
J. van de Vegte, I.A. van der Neut, A.W. Potman, G.H.J van der Oord, W.J. Som de Cerff
"Aardobservatie Toegepast", Symposium Nationaal Programm Gebruikersondersteuning (GO), 12 november 2004, Utrecht

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument on EOS-Aura
P.F. Levelt, J.P. Veefkind, R.J. Dirksen, M. Kroon, M. Dobber, J. Claas, J.F. de Haan, G.H.J. van den Oord, R.H.M. Voors, I.A. van der Neut, J. van de Vegte, K.F. Boersma, W.J. Som de Cerff, J. de Vries, E.J. Briksma

"Aardobservatie Toegepast", Symposium Nationaal Programm Gebruikersondersteuning (GO), 12 november 2004, Utrecht

Autonomic Management of Large Clusters and their Integration into the Grid
Thomas R¨oblitz, Florian Schintke and Alexander Reinefeld, Olof B¨arring, Maite Barroso Lopez, German Cancio, Sylvain Chapeland, Karim Chouikh, Lionel Cons, Piotr Pozna´nski, Philippe Defert, Jan Iven, Thorsten Kleinwort, Bernd Panzer-Steindel, Jaroslaw Polok, Catherine Rafflin, Alan Silverman, Tim Smith and Jan Van EldikDavid Groep, Martijn Steenbakkers, Oscar Koeroo, Wim Som de Cerff and Gerben Venekamp,David Front, Massimo Biasotto, Cristina Aiftimiei, Enrico Ferro and Gaetano Maron, Andrea Chierici and Luca Dell agnello, Marco Serra, Michele Michelotto, Lord Hess, Volker Lindenstruth, Frank Pister and Timm Morten Steinbeck, Paul Anderson, Tim Colles, Alexander Holt and Alastair Scobie, Michael George and Andrew Washbrook, Rafael A. Garc´1a Leiva.
Jounal of GRID Computing, 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. (to be published)

Dynamic User Communities in a Grid of Autonomous Resources
R. Alfieri, R. Cecchini, V. Ciaschini, L. dell'Agnello, A. Gianoli, F. Spataro, Franck Bonnassieux, Philippa J. Broadfoot, Gavin Lowe, Linda Cornwall, J. Jensen, D. Kelsey, Ákos Frohner, David L. Groep, W. Som de Cerff, M. Steenbakkers, G. Venekamp, D. Kouril, A. McNab, O. Mulmo, M. Silander, J. Hahkala, K. Lhorentey: Managing CoRR cs.DC/0306004: (2003)

Using Virtual Organizations Membership System with EDG's Grid Security and Database Access
Marco Niinimaki, John White, Wim Som de Cerff, Joni Hahkala, Tapio Niemi, Mikko Pitkanen
Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing Impacts on Large Scale Heterogoneous Distributed Database Systems, GLOBE'2004, Zaragoza, Spain
Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Science Press

Deployment of Earth Observation Applications on the European DataGrid Testbed
L. Fusco, J.Linford, W. Som de Cerff, C. Boonne, C. Leroy, M. Petitdidier
Global Grid Forum 10, The Future of Data Grid Environments Workshop,2004, Birlin

Data access for atmospheric research
W.J. Som de Cerff, J. van de Vegte , R.M. van Hees
Dealing with the data flood [p85-93] STT study centre for technology trends, 2002, The Hague, The Netherlands. ISBN-90-804496-6-0

De infrastructuur achter het atmosfeeronderzoek
S. Barlag, J. van de Vegte, W.J. Som de Cerff
RS&GI No 3 Oktober 2001 page 14-16, Delft, the Netherlands

Design of the Netherlands Sciamachy Data Center
S. Barlag, J.A. Beysens, R.M. van Hees, R.B.A. Koelemeijer, A.J.M. Piters, H. Schrijver, P. Stammes, W.J. Som de Cerff, P. Valks, J van de Vegte
ERS - ENVISAT SYMPOSIUM 2000, Gothenborg

Designing a distributed data Center
W.J. Som de Cerff, J. van de Vegte
DASIA 2000, ESA SP457, Montreal

a dynamic GUI for accessing the Netherlands Sciamachy Data Center
J. van de Vegte, W.J. Som de Cerff,
DASIA 2000, ESA SP457, Montreal

The Netherlands Sciamachy Data Center
W.J. Som de Cerff, J. van de Vegte , R.M. van Hees
2nd International Symposium on Operationalization of Remote Sensing, 1999, Enschede.

Reports:

• Results of running EO applications on EDG 2.0, EO application testbed assesment and final report, December 2003, EU deliverable.
• Join list of Usecases (WP8-9-10), Applications Working Group, September 2003, Datagrid milestone document
• Joint list of recommandations (WP8-9-10), Applications Working Group, May 2003, Datagrid milestone document.
• Earth observation applications testbed assessment evaluation report, Datagrid wp9 EO, March 2003, EU deliverable.
• DataGrid Wp9 GOME Use Case UseCase (KNMI IPSL ESA), WP9.4 Use Case Annex to Requirements specification: EO application requirements for Grid, May 2002, annex to EU deliverable D9.1
• Earth Observation application requirements specification.,DataGrid WP9 Deliverable Document D9.1, December 2001, EU deliverable
• System Specification document, TEMIS, 2002, ESA-DUP, TEM/SDD/003,
• Service Definition Documentand Service Development Plan, TEMIS, 2002, ESA-DUP TEM/SDD/003
• Bridging NADC, project end report, SRON EO-056, October 2002
• The Netherlands Sciamachy Data Center, Project report USP, SRON project, SRON-EO-00/023, December 2001

Presentations:

Production and validation of the satellite data, GOME. 2nd DEGREE Worshop on data management and portals, CRS4, Pula, Sardegna, 14-15 June 2007.
Som de Cerff, W., M. Petitdidier,

Earth Science requirements for job management. 1st DEGREE Workshop, IISAS, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1-2 March 2007.
W.J. Som de Cerff

Near-real time applications at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. 1st DEGREE Workshop, IISAS, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1-2 March 2007.
W.J. Som de Cerff

Data infrastructuur voor Klimaat, Ozon-monitoring & Luchtkwaliteit
W.J. Som de Cerff
GO symposium, 12 november 2004

Metadata usage in Earth Observation Applications
M. Petitdidier, W. Som de Cerff
DataGrid 3rd EU review, February 2004

AWG Report (plenary session)
Wim Som de Cerff
Datagrid Workshop Barcalona, May 2003

Computers en computing op het KNMI
Wim Som de Cerff
HCC afdeling Hilversum, Hilversum, March 2003

DataGrid EU review presentations (WP9: Progress and testbed evaluation) (WP9 Demo)
Luigi Fusco, Monique Petitidier, Christine Leroy, Pedro Goncalves, Wim Som de Cerff
DataGrid 2nd EU review, Geneve, February 2003

Earth Observation and Bio Informatics Applications
Wim Som de Cerff
DataGrid Tutorial, Amsterdam, December 2002

The Netherlands Sciamachy Data Center
Wim Som de Cerff, Richard van Hees, John van de Vegte
KNMI Colloquium, De Bilt, October 2002

KNMI as Data Center
Wim Som de Cerff, Richard van Hees, John van de Vegte
OMI-Sciamachy user meeting, KNMI de Bilt, September 2001

Toegankelijk maken van KNMI data
Wim Som de Cerff, John van de Vegte
KODAC workshop, KNMI de Bilt, November 2001

DataGrid: KNMI activities in WP9
Wim Som de Cerff
Global Grid Forum 1, Amsterdam, 2001