Russ Dengel and Dave Parker 27 th 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  Clients Tile services: Google Maps, iOS App, Android App GIS software KML (Google Earth) THREDDS (McIDAS-V)

Overview  Upload Researchers send products to the map server  Management RealEarth saves products for a set time range  Serving Many 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 product3 product4 :80 :8001 :8002 :8003 :80 VM Host Proxy VM

Sharing and Exporting 1. Easy sharing with other software 2. 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