Presented by:Robert Thomas Marketing Manager, Compusult August, 2007 GeoWeb Portal Candidate Presentation GEOSS Workshop Demonstration IPY GeoNorth Yellowknife, Canada 20 August 2007

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Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved Committed to Standards –ISO/IEC Specification and Standardization of Data Elements –ISO/TC CD Geographic Information - Metadata –ISO/TC CD Geographic Information - Services –ISO/TC CD Geographic Information Encoding Rules –GEO Profile - ANSI Z39.50/FGDC Metadata Standard –GILS (Global Information Locator Service) Profile –U.S. Department of Defense Metadata Standard (DDMS) –OGC - Web Services Architecture –OGC - Reference Model –OGC - Web Map Service (WMS) –OGC - Geography Markup Language (GML) –OGC - Web Feature Service (WFS) –OGC - Filter Encoding Implementation Specification –OGC - Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) –OGC - Context Document –OGC - Catalogue (CSW) –OGC - Gazetteer Service –OGC - Web Coverage Service (WCS) –OGC - Web Feature Service –OGC - Gazetteer (WFS-G) Extensive experience in the review, implementation and participation in the following standards-based initiatives:Extensive experience in the review, implementation and participation in the following standards-based initiatives:

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved Our Vision of the GeoWeb Portal Managing diverse and distributed sources of geospatial resources (data, applications, and documents) Finding reliable, timely, useful information Inability to collaborate Using old or wrong data Producing redundant information Duplicate spending ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Issues/Problems

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved Our Vision of the GeoWeb Portal The GEO GeoWeb Portal Architecture The GEO Web Portal shall provide the following core services: Portal Services – a single point of access to geospatial information on the portal. Portrayal Services - used to process the geospatial information and prepare it for presentation to the user. Catalog Services - used to locate geospatial services and information wherever it resides and to provide information to the user on the services and information found Data Services - used to provide geospatial content and data processing, including but not limited to supporting digital rights management

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved The Compusult Web Enterprise Suite (WES) GeoWeb Portal A suite of applications providing a real-time, web-based, geospatially enabled portal to provide centralized interoperability, discovery, collaboration, sharing, access and management over highly disparate information.

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved WES GeoWeb Portal Architecture Overview An advanced Geospatial Interoperability Portal Infrastructure System. WES components are tightly integrated, open standards-based applications employing OGC/ISO interoperability specifications. Deployed using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). All within a secure, industry standard JRS168 portal environment. WES is one of the most comprehensive, end-to-end geospatial portal solutions of its type available.

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved How WES is Currently Used To implement local, regional, national, & global geospatial portals through a standardized Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). WES Portals are Current Deployed in Support of: –Homeland Security –Emergency Response –Situational Awareness –Public Health And Safety –Environmental Management and Research –Resource Management

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved Selected Organizations using Web Enterprise Suite The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) USGS EROS Data Center (EDC) Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) GeoEye (formally Space Imaging Corporation) Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) National Air Photo Library (NAPL) The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (Canada) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved WES GeoWeb Portal Architecture Diagram WES Portal – A Customized version of Liferay (an open source portal framework) GEO Web site Community Web Portals Other Clients and Decision Support Tools WES Viewer My Portal WES Discovery GEOSS Clearinghouse WES Browser WES Gazetteer My Maps WES Printer WES Catalog Other Data Sources WES Publisher

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved WES GeoWeb Portal Architecture

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved WES Supports the Following Standards: OGC Geospatial standards –WFS, WCS, WMS, WMC, CS-W, GML, SLD, CAT 2.0, OGC Filter Encoding, WFS-G Metadata Standards –ISO –FGDC GEOProfile –DDMS (Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Standard) IT and Portal Standards –JSR 168, SOAP, J2EE, XML, WSDL, Java, RDBMS, J2ME, etc.

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved WES Platform Independence WES software components have been designed and implemented to operate across multiple platforms. Operating Systems currently supported: Windows Server 2000/2003 IRIX Linux Solaris HP-UX The hardware platforms supported: Intel Pentium and Xeon class hardware Sun Microsystems HP UNIX-based Workstations and Servers SGI Workstations and Servers Clients: Any hardware configuration with either Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 or higher, or Netscape version 7 or higher, or Mozilla Firefox 1.7 or higher.

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved WES: The Total Geospatial Portal Solution Geospatial Data Discovery - Search, manage and discover geospatial data from disparate data sources. Geospatial Data Fusion/Portrayal - Access, preview and combine distributed and/or disparate geospatial data and services. Geospatial Data Dissemination - Publish data and services to the WES catalogue supporting OGC catalogue standards. Geospatial Data Delivery - Deliver data products and services to end users including e-commerce capabilities. Geospatial Collaboration - Discussion Forums, Document Sharing, Image Library, RSS Clients, Calendar, WIKI Nodes and many other portlets are included. Geospatial User Management - End users can belong to managed ‘Groups’ or ‘Communities’ providing geo-data access control and customized user environments. Users can dynamically access and customize information and services via the “My Portal” portlet.

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved GeoWeb Portlets included in WES Discovery: OGC CSW discovery interface client for searching disparate data holdings Viewer: An advanced geo-viewer and caching system Browser: The WES Browser provides direct access to catagorized data Publisher: Publish / disseminate geo data from an extensive variety of sources Administration: Control interface, users, content all through the portal Collaboration: Many portlets to promote collaboration Other: Communities of Interest, language options plus many others

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved GeoWeb Portlets included in WES WES Discovery Client

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved GeoWeb Portlets included in WES WES Viewer

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved GeoWeb Portlets included in WES WES Browser

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved GeoWeb Portlets included in WES WES Publisher

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved GeoWeb Portlets included in WES WES Admin.

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved GeoWeb Portlets included in WES WES Collaboration

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved GeoWeb Portlets included in WES Other Functionality –Communities of Interest –Language Tools –Plus many others

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved Benefits of a WES GeoWeb Portal Deploying a WES GeoWeb Portal is easier, faster, and less costly. Provides an effective framework for the distribution of diverse and complex information … It Organizes a Spatial Data Infrastructure A WES GeoWeb Portal supports decision making in critical situations. A WES GeoWeb Portal implementation enables faster decision making and better coordination across multiple departments and/or agencies, countries... A WES GeoWeb Portal Supports and Facilitates: –Faster Geodata Discovery –Increased Direct Access and Use –Improvements in Data Quality and Coverage –Improved Collaboration and Interaction

Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved Additional WES Features A thin client/human user interface for standard Web browsers. Highly customizable and flexible interface that is easily integrated into a variety of look and feels. Scalability, Reliability and Availability demonstrated through NGA Horizontal Fusion, NASA and GeoEye implementations Metadata management, mapping, geo-coding, & data downloading. Data storage in industry-standard database management systems. Integration with standard Internet and Defense security policy decision services NCES (i.e., LDAP, PKI, Policy Decision, Data Labeling, etc.). A complete system dedicated to GEOSS.

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