CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004

BNSC OGC Activities

Wyn Cudlip BNSC/QinetiQ

Presentation atJoint WGISS/Subgroup Meeting

Tromso, May 2004

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004

Introduction

As part of its overall International Co-operation Programme in EO, BNSC is supporting a number of small study/technology demonstrators relating to OGC (and GRID):

ICEDS: Integrated CEOS European Data Server EMIR: Environment for Metadata and Image Retrieval Support for the OGC EO SIG Study on the relevance of OGC/GRID for GMES Study on Harmonisation of Met. and EO Data Formats

These are mostly due to finish over the summer. Should be able to make results available at next WGISS meeting

Also Provides partial support for Pilot Ocean Project

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004

ICEDS: Integrated CEOS European Data Server

To provide support for the WGISS Landsat/SRTM Project.

To investigate the issues around using WMS, WFS and WCS to serve global datasets of Landsat and SRTM data.

Presentation to be given on Thursday afternoon.

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004

EMIREnvironment for Metadata and Image Retrieval Provide OGC interfaces into legacy catalogue and data archives

Continuation of GAZE (presented at last meeting)– GML Access from Z39.50 Environments

Access to Z39.50 catalogue systems – (e.g. FGDC Clearing House, UK GI Gateway and UK NERC Data centres).

Requested data is hosted, on the fly, on OGC WMS or WCS

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Gaze Concept

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Metadata in GML displayed in ArcView

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Browse displayed via WMS

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Support for OGC EO SIG

Activity to be carried out by Tom Lancaster of Inforterra.

Attend OGC EO SIG meetings

But also

Try to harmonise use of OGC Standards in the UK.

Including

OGC Common Service

Digital Rights Management

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Relevance OGC and GRID for GMES

Small study by SciSys

Global Monitoring for Environment and Security.– Major initiative of the European Union (EU) and ESA to exploit EO data (and in-situ

data) for the benefit of the citizen.

Many large (and over-lapping) projects to develop new services that can benefit for EO satellite data

Study will aim to emphasis benefits of exploiting open standards and improved harmonisation.

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Harmonisation of Met. and E.O. data formats

Study to look at the current state of the art of Met. and E.O. Data Formats. By LogicaCMG.

Make possible recommendations as to how interoperability may be improved.

Study endorsed by Eumetsat.

Use of OGC Standards for access to Met. data.

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Conclusion

UK (and European) emphasis on the provision of Services based on EO data, rather than the “supply of images”.

OGC Standards can be an essential part of this.

Commercial exploitation of GRID developments is a little further off.