GI&S Employment: Standards and Issues CEISC 12 Dec 05

1. GI&S Employment: Standards and IssuesCEISC 12 Dec 05 Mr. Mike HowlandAFWA Technical Director/CIO

2. Geospatial Information and Services (GI&S) Issues • Explosive demand for weather information in geospatial formats and geospatial applications • Extended to end-user via web pages and web services • Need weather and effects overlays on user selected geospatial displays and within user’s application • Stand alone images losing relevance • Weather data has always been geo-referenced in time and space • GI&S tools offer whole new range of information delivery capabilities • Federal weather suppliers are all rolling out geospatial information services • Competing open and de facto standards a challenge

3. Issues (cont) • Numerous Standards/Governing Bodies: • Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) • Worldwide Web Consortium (WWC) • Federal Enterprise Architecture • Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) • National Geospatial Intelligence Agency • National Geospatial Programs Office (NGPO) • Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG) Feature Data Dictionary (FDD) (DFDD) • National Systems for Geospatial Intelligence FDD (NFDD) • Department of Defense (DoD) Information Technology Standards Registry (DISR)

4. Issues (cont) • WWC and OGC web services standards are different • Which geospatial data formats to support? • Geotiff • Shape • SVG • NITF • JPEG 2000 • Others?

5. Air Force Weather GI&S Implementation

6. Enterprise ArchitectureAir Force Weather (AFW) GI&S (revised) Awaiting ‘formal’ AFW Arch Council approval

7. Summary • Federal weather providers are rapidly moving to GI&S • Which geospatial data formats and standards to use? • Is weather information subordinate to FGDC? • Recommend we task CIDE WG to assess need for common national practices/standards for weather GI&S • Discussion

8. Backup Slides

9. ArchitectureAFWA Web Mapping Service (WMS)

10. ArchitectureExample of NGA WMS Request