HR: 16:00h
AN: IN44A-01 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: The NASA Forecast Model Web Map Service
AU: * de La Beaujardière, J
EM: jeff2006@svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Software Integration and Visualization Office, Code 610.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AB: The NASA Forecast Model WMS (NFMW) provides on-demand visualizations of Earth science data. The current usage focuses on field campaigns and other projects that use the output of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) and Weather Research Framework (WRF) models, but other models can be supported. The NFMW implements the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) interoperability specification. WMS provisions for handling time and other dimensions are used extensively to support the multi-dimensional nature of the forecast data. Scientists and other interested parties access the WMS using a variety of clients including our own web-based Viewer, Google Earth, a multi-screen Hyperwall installation, or other WMS-compliant applications. We have found that offering an open-standard interface to our data collection has simplified usage of the data and has permitted users to visualize the data from remote locations using only a web browser. The NFMW and Viewer may be accessed at http://map.nasa.gov/tools.html. The NFMW software is available as open source, and is written in a combination of Perl and Interactive Data Language (IDL). This work is supported by the Geosciences Interoperability Office (GIO) and the Modeling and Analysis Program (MAP) at NASA.
UR: http://map.nasa.gov/tools.html
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 0545 Modeling (4255)
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting