US Army Corps of Engineers DGI Europe 2008 Interoperability & Collaboration Focus Day Joel Schlagel & Michael Smith US Army Corps of Engineers Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

US Army Corps of Engineers Q: Will Commercial Platforms Or Open Source Communities Provide The Cutting Edge Science That Delivers The Open Sharing Environment of The Future?

US Army Corps of Engineers Q: Will Commercial Platforms Or Open Source Communities Provide The Cutting Edge Science That Delivers The Open Sharing Environment of The Future? A: Yes

US Army Corps of Engineers ➲ Open Source Concepts ➲ USACE Success with Open Source Tools ➲ A Review of Some Open Source Projects ➲ Questions / Discussion

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Open Source Software Image Map: OSSIM

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US Army Corps of Engineers Open Source vs Closed Source

US Army Corps of Engineers How Does Knowledge Flow? ➲ Requirement > ➲ Commercial Product > ➲ Commodity Knowledge > ➲ Open Source Clone ➲ Requirement > ➲ Open Source Project > ➲ Commodity Knowledge ➲ Closed Source Clone

US Army Corps of Engineers Thought Questions? ➲ Are defense geospatial software requirements typical? ➲ Can the marketplace guarantee software that meets defense needs will be developed? ➲ Can the marketplace guarantee that software will be supported? ➲ Is geospatial software a commodity of can it provide a strategic advantage? ➲ What are the benefits and costs of a diverse software ecosystem?

US Army Corps of Engineers Open Source Advantage: Transparency

US Army Corps of Engineers Open Source in DoD

US Army Corps of Engineers CorpsMap Values ➲ IT Driven ➲ Standards Based (ESRI, Oracle, OGC)‏ ➲ Security by Design ➲ Role-based access and customization ➲ Fine grained access control ➲ Auditing (who accessed what when. why?)‏ ➲ Web Service Integration ➲ Publish & Subscribe architecture for data and meta-data supported ➲ Simple “Relative Geography” operations supported ➲ Complex server-side geospatial analysis supported ➲ N-Dimensional topology supported and analysis ➲ Operational

US Army Corps of Engineers CorpsMap Deployment ➲ Design with Enterprise Architecture ➲ Web Services as Integration Platform (SOAP, CORBA, OGC) ➲ Hosting at DoD Major Shared Resource Center ➲ Data Center is at backbone for all Corps Districts ➲ “Big Iron” operation with 24x7x365 monitoring ➲ Failover and replication to alternate data center supported ➲ Multiple network providers and multiple power sources ➲ Hosting of mirrored systems on both NIPR and SIPR possible ➲ DITSCAP Security Review / Authority to Operate ➲ DoD network infrastructure – TNOSC Monitoring ➲ CAC access or.mil access control

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No “Appliance” Necessary

US Army Corps of Engineers Cascading OGC WMS

US Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Color Orthoimagery 4tb - 100,000 tiles

US Army Corps of Engineers Role-Based Access to layers and attributes

US Army Corps of Engineers NexRad Radar & Real-time hydrologic data

US Army Corps of Engineers Advanced Metadata Searc

US Army Corps of Engineers Web Service Catalog

US Army Corps of Engineers Single-Sign On

US Army Corps of Engineers Transactional System

US Army Corps of Engineers Open Source Geospatial Foundation

US Army Corps of Engineers MapServer: Growing Capabilities ➲ ArcView IMS ➲ MapObjects IMS ➲ ArcIMS ➲ ESRI Portal Toolkit ➲ ArcGIS Server ➲ MapServer ➲ + GDAL ➲ + OGC Services ➲ + Cached Maps ➲ + OpenLayers Time

US Army Corps of Engineers Case Study: GDAL ➲ Geospatial Data Abstraction Library ➲ Supports reading and writing numerous data formats ➲ Open Source Library used by many Open Source Projects ➲ Many Commercial Companies contribute ➲ Used in Google Earth ➲ Data Engine for MapServer since 2002 ➲ Added to ArcGIS Desktop in 2007 (9.2)‏

US Army Corps of Engineers A Few Open Source Projects ➲ PostGIS – Refractions Research, Canada ➲ OSSIM – USA ➲ gvSIG – Spain ➲ Deegree - Germany ➲ OpenLayers - USA ➲ MapGuide - Autodesk, USA ➲ GRASS - Italy (Formerly USACE)‏ ➲ MapBender, Tydac, Switzerland ➲ GeoPortal Open Source– UN FAO ➲ Chameleon, DM Solutions, Canada

US Army Corps of Engineers QGIS & GRASS: Advanced Geospatial Analysis Desktop

US Army Corps of Engineers gvSIG

US Army Corps of Engineers Open Source & Open Standards Understand the Difference

US Army Corps of Engineers GIS and Relational Databases When all you think about is a hammer...

US Army Corps of Engineers Know the Standards & Question their implementation ➲ WMS ➲ WFS ➲ SLD ➲ WCS ➲ SFS ➲ XML ➲ KML ➲ GML ➲ AJAX ➲ SOA ➲ ESB

US Army Corps of Engineers 2 Cents (1 pence)‏ If you Expect Open Standards, Support Open Source

US Army Corps of Engineers Adding Open Source Tools To Your Technology Stack Defense Agency Primary Contractor Technology Providers Requirements Capabilities

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