CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 BNSC OGC Activities Wyn Cudlip BNSC/QinetiQ Presentation at Joint WGISS/Subgroup Meeting Tromso, May 2004

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 Introduction zAs 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): zICEDS: Integrated CEOS European Data Server zEMIR: Environment for Metadata and Image Retrieval zSupport for the OGC EO SIG zStudy on the relevance of OGC/GRID for GMES zStudy on Harmonisation of Met. and EO Data Formats zThese are mostly due to finish over the summer. zShould be able to make results available at next WGISS meeting Also zProvides partial support for Pilot Ocean Project

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 ICEDS: Integrated CEOS European Data Server zTo provide support for the WGISS Landsat/SRTM Project. zTo investigate the issues around using WMS, WFS and WCS to serve global datasets of Landsat and SRTM data. zPresentation to be given on Thursday afternoon.

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 EMIR Environment for Metadata and Image Retrieval zProvide OGC interfaces into legacy catalogue and data archives zContinuation of GAZE (presented at last meeting) –GML Access from Z39.50 Environments zAccess to Z39.50 catalogue systems –(e.g. FGDC Clearing House, UK GI Gateway and UK NERC Data centres). zRequested data is hosted, on the fly, on OGC WMS or WCS

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 Gaze Concept

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 Metadata in GML displayed in ArcView

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 Browse displayed via WMS

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 Support for OGC EO SIG zActivity to be carried out by Tom Lancaster of Inforterra. zAttend OGC EO SIG meetings But also zTry to harmonise use of OGC Standards in the UK. Including zOGC Common Service zDigital Rights Management

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 Relevance OGC and GRID for GMES zSmall study by SciSys zGlobal 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. zMany large (and over-lapping) projects to develop new services that can benefit for EO satellite data zStudy will aim to emphasis benefits of exploiting open standards and improved harmonisation.

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 Harmonisation of Met. and E.O. data formats zStudy to look at the current state of the art of Met. and E.O. Data Formats. By LogicaCMG. zMake possible recommendations as to how interoperability may be improved. zStudy endorsed by Eumetsat. zUse of OGC Standards for access to Met. data.

CEOS WGISS & Subgroup Meeting, Tromso, May, 2004 Conclusion zUK (and European) emphasis on the provision of Services based on EO data, rather than the “supply of images”. zOGC Standards can be an essential part of this. zCommercial exploitation of GRID developments is a little further off.