HR: 08:15h
AN: IN31C-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: WMS and WFS Standards Implementation of Weather Data
AU: * Armstrong, M
EM: marmstrong@customweather.com
AF: CustomWeather, Inc, 26 South Park, San Francisco, CA 94107 United States
AB: CustomWeather is private weather company that delivers global weather data products. CustomWeather has built a mapping platform according to OGC standards. Currently, both a Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) are supported by CustomWeather. Supporting open geospatial standards has lead to number of positive changes internally to the processes of CustomWeather, along with those of the clients accessing the data. Quite a number of challenges surfaced during this process, particularly with respect to combining a wide variety of raw modeling and sensor data into a single delivery platform. Open standards have, however, made the delivery of very different data products rather seamless. The discussion will address the issues faced in building an OGC-based mapping platform along with the limitations encountered. While the availability of these data products through open standards is still very young, there have already been many adopters in the utility and navigation industries. The discussion will take a closer look at the different approach taken by these two industries as they utilize interoperability standards with existing data. Insight will be given in regards to applications already taking advantage of this new technology and how this is affecting decision-making processes. CustomWeather has observed considerable interest and potential benefit in this technology from developing countries. Weather data is a key element in disaster management. Interoperability is literally opening up a world of data and has the potential to quickly enable functionality that would otherwise take considerable time to implement. The discussion will briefly touch on our experience.
UR: http://www.customweather.com/cw_industry_gis.html
DE: 3346 Planetary meteorology (5445, 5739)
DE: 3354 Precipitation (1854)
DE: 3399 General or miscellaneous
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005