1. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Web Services Interest Group WGISS #27 May, 2009 Toulouse, France Lyndon R. Oleson U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, SD

2. 2 Web Services Interest Group Purpose of a Web Services Interest Group (WGISS 25)  Foster technical sharing among members (particular emphasis on non-SWE standards)  Maintain a list of “expert participants” from agencies for technical referrals and dialog  Sponsor technical exchange forums at WGISS Subgroup meetings or elsewhere (e.g. workshops, Q&A sessions, telecons)  Draft potential project proposals and project plans for WGISS

3. 3 Web Services Interest Group Agenda 9:00 – 9:15 Web Services IG Status and Overview Lyn Oleson 9:15 – 9:30 USGS/EROS WCS Experience and Ideas Lyn Oleson for Landsat Data Access 9:30 – 9:45 Polar Mapping Update and WMS ExperienceShinobu Kawahito 9:45 – 10:00 Security and Web Services Group 10:00 – 10:15 Identifying Web Service Clients Group 10:15 – 10:20 Future meetings and workshops Group 10:20 - 10:30 Recommendations to WGISS Lyn Oleson

4. 4 Web Services Interest Group Presentation by Lyn Oleson:  USGS/EROS WCS Experience and Ideas for Landsat Data Access Presentation by Shinobu Kawahito:  Polar Mapping Update and WMS Experience

5. 5 Web Services Interest Group Identifying Web Service Clients  From George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, http://www.opengeospatial.org/, E-mail: percivall@opengeospatial.org http://www.opengeospatial.org/ percivall@opengeospatial.org  A survey of clients including those that can access WCS is maintained here: http://sites.google.com/a/tnms.org/esip-csti-wg/Home  We have a need for user/clients who are willing to prototype and test with us.

6. 6 Web Services Interest Group Other information from George Percivall:  OGC WCS Activities: WCS standard: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs WCS profile for netCDF was just approved and will be posted publicly in the next few weeks. GALEON Interoperability Experiment that has led much development of WCS for Earth sciences. http://www.ogcnetwork.net/galeon

7. 7 Web Services Interest Group Other information from George Percivall:  WCS Servers Servers developed as part of GALEON IE:  http://www.ogcnetwork.net//?q=node/116 Integrated CEOS European Data Server (ICEDS)  http://iceds.ge.ucl.ac.uk/ Atlas of the Cryosphere  http://nsidc.org/data/atlas/ogc_services.html CIESIN/SEDAC Web Coverage Service of Population Data  http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapserver/wcs/ Center for Research in Water Resources - University of Texas  http://data.crwr.utexas.edu/wcs.html

8. 8 Web Services Interest Group Future meetings and workshops?  July 7-10, 2009, ESIP Federation Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA  Others?

9. 9 Web Services Interest Group Security and Web Services

10. 10 Web Services Interest Group Recommendations to WGISS?