1. Coordination of Products, Tools and Services
FDSN WG III
Coordination of Products, Tools and Services
Tuesday 13 January 2009
17:00-18:30

2. Proposed Agenda – 1.5 hour Introductory Remarks and Business
Sign-in Sheet
Approval of 2007 WG III minutes
Review and Approval of WG III Charge
Status of Existing products
Probability density functions and PQLX 
New Products and Services
Tomographic Models
Standardization of formats/services
Luca Postpischi
3D visualization service
Coordinated Metadata Service
Station service
Real time stations
Archived stations
Can ‘IRIS-like’ virtual networks be maintained

3. FDSN WG III Charge Coordination of Products, Tools and Services
FDSN WGIII will identify standard products that may be produced by FDSN data centers. WGIII will advocate product uniformity and methods of production for FDSN products. WG III will advocate development and distribution of standard software tools that will support the production of FDSN products. WGIII will propose methods of product discovery by a user and methods of product distribution.

4. Status of Probability Density Functions
How many networks are producing PDFs?
How many are using PQLX?

5. Tomographic Models Luca Postpischi’s proposal
Json
Proposed xyz value format

6. Luca Postpischi

7. Simple Tomographic Format

8. Submission of Tomo Model Data
Model Contributor
Regular
Grid
Json
Format
netCDF

9. Model Viewers GEON IDV GMT based viewers Model Repositories
Works on netCDF files
Developing an interactive map based model slicing tool
GMT based viewers
Script based
Model Repositories

10. Coordinated Metadata service
Authoritative dataless SEEDs per network code
FDSN Web site has
URIs to network dataless SEED
Access Methods
access
DHI
ArcLink

11. Station Service How can the FDSN produce a service to show
Realtime FDSN stations
Archived FDSN stations
Can “Virtual Networks” be maintained within the FDSN?

12. Other Issues?