1. Unidata Program Center
Access Data Workshop
Portland, Oregon
May 1, 2008
Jeff Weber
Unidata Program Center
UCAR
Why are we here?

2. Data, Data, Everywhere
but not a Bit to Display

3. Data

4. Real Time Weather Briefing

5. RADAR and METAR

6. RADAR and METAR with High Resolution Roads

7. Zooming In

8. Webcam Time synchronized with RADAR

9. How did we get
here?

10. Data
ADDE
THREDDS
OPeNDAP
GEMPAK
IDV
McIDAS

11. Hi-Res Roads, and features Webcam
GOES East and West
Via SSEC IDD/LDM -> ADDE
NEXRAD RADAR
Via NWS IDD/LDM -> THREDDS
Composite created at Unidata -> ADDE
METARS
NWS/WMO IDD/LDM -> THREDDS
Hi-Res Roads, and features
MapServer
Webcam
HTTP served via the IDV

12. Standards and Open Protocols
ISO
GALEON
JAVA , web 2.0, google earth, data interoperability

13. Services THREDDS ADDE OPeNDAP WMS,MMS *NIX vs other OS
http is not dead…UDP/TCP

14. Higher Resolution Data
Bandwidth
Push vs Pull
Higher Resolution Data
Increased Demand

15. Greater Inter-operability
Future
More services
Greater Inter-operability
Ease of Use
Distributed Data

16. Thank you
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