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Air Force Weather Agency

GI&S Employment: Standards and Issues

CEISC 12 Dec 05

Mr. Mike HowlandAFWA Technical

Director/CIO

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Geospatial Information and Services (GI&S) Issues

Explosive demand for weather information in geospatial formats and geospatial applications Extended to end-user via web pages and web services Need weather and effects overlays on user selected

geospatial displays and within user’s application Stand alone images losing relevance

Weather data has always been geo-referenced in time and space

GI&S tools offer whole new range of information delivery capabilities

Federal weather suppliers are all rolling out geospatial information services

Competing open and de facto standards a challenge

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Issues (cont)

Numerous Standards/Governing Bodies: Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Worldwide Web Consortium (WWC) Federal Enterprise Architecture Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency National Geospatial Programs Office (NGPO) Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG)

Feature Data Dictionary (FDD) (DFDD) National Systems for Geospatial Intelligence FDD (NFDD) Department of Defense (DoD) Information Technology

Standards Registry (DISR)

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Issues (cont)

WWC and OGC web services standards are different Which geospatial data formats to support?

Geotiff Shape SVG NITF JPEG 2000 Others?

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Air Force Weather GI&S Implementation

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Enterprise ArchitectureAir Force Weather (AFW) GI&S (revised)

Awaiting ‘formal’ AFW Arch Council

approval

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Summary

Federal weather providers are rapidly moving to GI&S

Which geospatial data formats and standards to use?

Is weather information subordinate to FGDC?

Recommend we task CIDE WG to assess need for common national practices/standards for weather GI&S

Discussion

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Backup Slides

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ArchitectureAFWA Web Mapping Service (WMS)

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ArchitectureExample of NGA WMS Request