HR: 16:39h
AN: IN44A-04    [Abstracts]
TI: Highlights and Conclusions of the Unidata OGC Interoperability Day
AU: * Domenico, B
EM: ben@unidata.ucar.edu
AF: Unidata/UCAR, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Davis, E
EM: edavis@unidata.ucar.edu
AF: Unidata/UCAR, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Rew, R
EM: russ@unidata.ucar.edu
AF: Unidata/UCAR, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Caron, J
EM: caron@unidata.ucar.edu
AF: Unidata/UCAR, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Nativi, S
EM: nativi@imaa.cnr.it
AF: University of Florence and Italian National Research Council - IMAA, PIN - Polo Universitario di Prato dell'Università di Firenze Piazza dell'Università, Prato, 59100, Italy
AU: Yang, W
EM: wyang1@gmu.edu
AF: Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems George Mason University Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems George Mason University, Suite 620 6301 Ivy Lane, Greenbelt, MD 20770, United States
AU: Falke, S
EM: stefan.falke@ngc.com
AF: Intelligence Group (TASC) Northrop Grumman IT and Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis, Suite 1740 1010 Market Street, Saint Louis, MO 63101, United States
AU: Woolf, A
EM: A.Woolf@rl.ac.uk
AF: e-Science Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Andrew Woolf Chilton, nr Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
AU: Tandy, J
EM: jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk
AF: UK Met Office, Discovery G FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom
AB: At the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Technical Committee meetings, Unidata hosted a special Interoperability Day workshop to address the use of web services via standard interfaces for accessing a broad range of environmental data. These interfaces include: WCS (Web Coverage Service), WFS (Web Feature Service, SOS (Sensor Observation Service, CS-W/ebRIM (Catalog Service for the Web / electronic business Registry Information Model) for providing access to data currently served via THREDDS (THematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services), OPeNDAP (Open source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol), netCDF-CF (network Common Data Form - Climate and Forecast conventions) and IDD/LDM (Internet Data Distribution / Local Data Manager) technologies. The primary data served includes weather, climate and ocean data from the community sometimes referred to as Fluid Earth Sciences (FES). An international set of representatives from industry, government, and academia, spanning many geosciences disciplines participated actively in the workshop and are committed to continued collaboration. The overall objective for the day was to come up with practical and concrete ideas for how to deliver various classes of FES data via web services through the standard interfaces. The primary focus was on gridded datasets (e.g., forecast model output) and station/observation/point datasets (e.g. the observational data collected at weather stations, ocean buoys, river gaging stations. As time allowed, other categories (profile/trajectory, swath, radial, unstructured grids) were addressed. The main objective was to come up with a realistic plan for dealing with gridded and station/observation/point datasets. Then the remaining categories can be addressed incrementally. This presentation summarizes the highlights of the Interoperability Day and the resulting plans for future implementation and testing.
UR: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/events/2007InteroperabilityDay/
DE: 1819 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
DE: 3394 Instruments and techniques
DE: 4594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 6339 System design
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting