Russ Dengel and Dave Parker27th Satellites and Education Conference

July 31, 2014

Web Map Service (WMS) What is a WMS?

OGC-compliant method for serving geo-referenced images and data to many different client types○ OGC = Open Geospatial Consortium

ClientsTile services: Google Maps, iOS App, Android AppGIS softwareKML (Google Earth)THREDDS (McIDAS-V)

Overview Upload

Researchers send products to the map server

ManagementRealEarth saves products for a set time range

ServingMany formats to many types of clients

Ingestor/Server

Serves Rasters: images

Serves Rasters: images Vectors: points

lines and polygons

Serves Rasters: images Vectors: points

lines and polygons Metadata: text and

layer values

Data Sources CIMSS/SSEC Unidata NESDIS NCEP – AWC,

SPC, NHC & WPC and many more!

Proxy to Other RealEarth VMs

Proxy collects and combines information (tiles, shapes, metadata, etc) from the appropriate host and returns the result to the client

Requests made to gateway on port 80

product6

product3product4

:80

:80

:8001

:8002:8003

:80

VM Host

Proxy VM

Sharing and Exporting1. Easy sharing with other software2. Facebook and Twitter integration

Serving Tiles NWS Enhanced Data Display (EDD)

Selector … our User Interface

Access to over 200 layers Control Animations Zoom and Roam Transparency Mashups

Animations … its all about time

Absolute, Relative or Product Time intervals based on Product Past and/or Forecast

Let’s give it a try …. realearth.ssec.wisc.edu