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Russ Dengel and Dave Parker 27 th Satellites and Education Conference July 31, 2014. SSEC RealEarth TM : Accessing Real-time Geospatial Data Using a Web Map Service realearth.ssec.wisc.edu. Web Map Service (WMS). What is a WMS?
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Russ Dengel and Dave Parker 27th Satellites and Education Conference July 31, 2014 SSEC RealEarthTM: Accessing Real-time Geospatial Data Using a Web Map Servicerealearth.ssec.wisc.edu
Web Map Service (WMS) • What is a WMS? • OGC-compliant method for serving geo-referenced images and data to many different client types • OGC = Open Geospatial Consortium • Clients • Tile services: Google Maps, iOS App, Android App • GIS software • KML(Google Earth) • THREDDS (McIDAS-V)
Overview • Upload • Researchers send products to the map server • Management • RealEarth saves products for a set time range • Serving • Many formats to many types of clients Ingestor/Server
Serves • Rasters: images
Serves • Rasters: images • Vectors: points lines and polygons
Serves • Rasters: images • Vectors: points lines and polygons • Metadata: text and layer values
Data Sources • CIMSS/SSEC • Unidata • NESDIS • NCEP – AWC, SPC, NHC & WPC • and many more!
Proxy to Other RealEarth VMs Requests made to gateway on port 80 product1 product2 product5 product7 :80 :80 product6 Proxy VM :8001 :8003 product1 product2 :8002 Proxy collects and combines information (tiles, shapes, metadata, etc) from the appropriate host and returns the result to the client product5 :80 product3 product4 product7 VM Host
Sharing and Exporting • Easy sharing with other software • Facebook and Twitter integration
Serving Tiles • NWS Enhanced Data Display (EDD)
Selector … our User Interface • Access to over 200 layers • Control Animations • Zoom and Roam • Transparency • Mashups
Animations … its all about time • Absolute, Relative or Product • Time intervals based on Product • Past and/or Forecast