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

Data, Data, Everywhere but not a Bit to Display

Data

Real Time Weather Briefing

RADAR and METAR

RADAR and METAR with High Resolution Roads

Zooming In

Webcam Time synchronized with RADAR

How did we get here?

Data ADDE THREDDS OPeNDAP GEMPAK IDV McIDAS

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you Contact Info: jweber@unidata.ucar.edu http://www.unidata.ucar.edu