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