© Crown copyright 2007 OGC MDWG Meteorology Domain Working Group Chris Little Exeter,

© Crown copyright 2007 Why me? Co-Chair OGC Meteorology Domain Working Group Regional Association VI Co-Rapporteur on GTS on Planning & Implementation Working Group (with Leonid Bezruk, Russia) UK Met Office representative on RMDCN Operating Committee WMO Focal Point for RTH Exeter I’ve been around a long time

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC MDWG A Little Background

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC Meteo DWG: Why? Nov 2007: ECMWF 11 th Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems - recommended: Nov 2008: ECMWF-OGC Workshop on Use of GIS/OGC Standards in Meteorology Aims: Review use of OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards in Europe & worldwide Promote collaboration between met services to define common standards for interoperability

© Crown copyright 2007 Ready-made community of interest

© Crown copyright 2007 ECMWF-OGC Workshop Topics: Standards: OGC, WMO & Inspire representatives Commercial solutions Developments at several NMSs worldwide Progress elsewhere, such as ESA & Eurocontrol Four Working Groups: Roadmap for Collaboration Use of the OGC Web Map Services Use of GML & Coverages Security and Access Control

© Crown copyright 2007 ECMWF-OGC Workshop Roadmap for Collaboration Establish OGC Meteorology DWG Collaboration tools, like website 6 monthly Interoperability Experiments Validate standards and best practices Use of the OGC WMS Develop meteorological profile Use of GML & Coverages Develop core models, use case driven, Validate, establish governance, registries Security and Access Control Delegate to proxies Use lower level SSL/VPN IP filtering Role based authentication Establish Virtual Organisations

© Crown copyright 2007 ECMWF-OGC Workshop Recommended : Roadmap for further collaboration Interoperability test beds of OGC web services for met. data & visualization Leading to recommendations to WMO /OGC_workshop/index.html

© Crown copyright 2007 OCG Who? Open Geospatial Consortium Non-profit making Standards setting Global ~380 members: Industry Government bodies Academia Individuals

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC How? TC - Technical Conference every 3 months - Boston June Darmstadt Sept Mountainview Dec 2009 SWG - Standards Working Groups - Fast track to ISO DWD - Domain Working Groups - Cross-cutting IE – Interoperability Experiments -6 monthly cycle Management structure, OAB, open & closed

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC What? OGC Discussion papers OGC Best Practices OGC Standards: GML Geographical Mark-up Language WFS Web Feature Service WMS Web Map Service Etc Then ISO Standards: 191xx Etc Then WMO uses them, willing or not (Inspire)

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC TC Athens March Formally established: HDWG - Hydrology Domain Working Group MDWG - Meteorology Domain Working Group Coordinated by: ESSDWG – Earth & Space Science DWG MDWG Co-Chairs: Chris Little & Marie-Françoise Voidrot

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC TC Athens March Meteo Domain WG Charter Started formal MoU between OGC & WMO Open Mailing list Open Twiki

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC – WMO MoU - 1 WMO benefits: Fast, effective, user-driven process Develop, test, demonstrate, promote standards Visibility & accountability Interoperability expertise Web-based tools and practices supporting consensus-based standards development Ecosystem of tool-builders, researchers, small companies, large geospatial software houses.

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC – WMO MoU - 2 OGC benefits: Rigorous testing on a wide variety of data: in-situ & mobile platforms active & passive remote sensing gridded simulations Web Map Services Develop profiling methodology Maturation of harmonization/dependencies methodology for global Spatial Data Infrastructures

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC MDWG Future Possibilities & Issues

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC MDWG draft plan Web Map Services Interoperability Experiments June – December 2009 Questionnaire – 6 replies so far Volunteers – several – informal Steering Group Hands up, please. Now! Other topics later (e.g. modelling, WCS, etc)

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC MDWG Questionnaire Responses, using WMS: 2 NMHSs,2 Nat Environment Agencies, EUMETSAT, Regional MHS Mainly using since earliest. 3 members of OGC 3 operational 3 public (with restricted access) 3 ½ interested in IEs 2 might commit resource

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC MDWG Questionnaire - 2 Mainly WMS Servers: Mapserver, GeoServer, Arc IMS, IBL VisWx Clients: OpenLayers, Google Earth, Flex, NinJo, IBL VisWx, Custom Raster and Vector Base maps, space imagery, radar, lightning, obs, grids EPSG:4326,23031,31467,42304,54004,900913, others Issues: Time, security, metadata, performance, asynchronous completion, BBOX & 180°

© Crown copyright 2007 Questions & Answers ?

© Crown copyright 2007 OGC MDWG Questionnaire Several Questions Several replies already Summary: ??