1. OGC ArcticSDP Scenario & data overview
Luciad
27 February 2017
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2. 1. Sea ice age evolution in the Beaufort Gyre
Story:
Arctic Sea Ice Age measurements show that the sea ice is becoming younger.
Since the 1980s, the amount of multiyear ice has declined dramatically.
One particularly affected area is the Beaufort Gyre, Northeast of Alaska. Warmer waters made it less friendly to perennial ice since the start of the 21st century.
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Demo videos
Show Luciad_SeaIceAge_time_evolution.mp4
Demonstrates the visualization of the temporal evolution of the Sea Ice Age from 1990 to 2012
Color map is inspired by NSIDC’s templates:
Demonstrate the visual correlation of the Sea Ice Age with arctic maritime areas
Visually compare two time instants using a Swipe controller (July 1995 vs July 2012 around the Beaufort Gyre)
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Data overview
Arctic SDI basemap
Source: Kartverket Norway; Format: OGC WMS web service
Location:
Sea Ice Age: MEaSUREs Arctic Sea Ice Characterization Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0
Source: NSIDC; Format: OGC NetCDF files
Location:
Arctic Marine Areas defined by the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP)
Source: CAFF / ABDS GeoNetwork catalogue; Format: OGC WMS web service
Location:
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5. Data integration highlights
Having data sources available that adhere to well-adopted standards makes a big (positive) difference (e.g. OGC)
High-performance temporal exploitation of the Sea Ice Age data required additional data preparation
Each Sea Ice Age measure file covers one day: files since 1979, 20GB+ in total
Solution: integrated into in-memory database. Alternatives: combine into larger files (e.g. yearly) and / or put behind an OGC WCS web service.
Styling information is often missing for raw raster & vector data sources
Yet having raw data is very interesting for client-side analysis
E.g., sea ice age, maritime mammals data, sea fish data, …
Solution: custom styling. Alternatives: provide ready-to-use OGC SLD styles.
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