OOSTethys - June 2007

The OOSTethys project expanded to encompass the OGC OCEANS IE effort. The time series plotter was improved by Bill Howe and will serve as one of the SOS clients for the OCEANS IE. Selected stations of the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) will be soon available via OGC SOS and WFS. OOSTethys Registry evaluation of OGC CSW standard began.

In June the OOSTethys project incorporated the OGC OCEANS Interoperability Experiment efforts. The unified project added several participants from outside of the OOSTethys project and added focused efforts around the OGC OCEANS IE Experiment #1 which is designed to probe ease of use aspects of WFS and SOS in four different scenarios of accessing historical, time series, and aggregated sensor data. A variety of clients and servers will be tested for compatibility including the OOSTethys SOS clients and the newly deployed MADIS water level database which will be available via SOS and WFS.

The group is in the process of agreeing on control URIs to be used in the web services messages. In addition, the OOSTethys efforts around the Registry continued with evaluations of the OGC CSW standards and assessments of the feasibility of building a simplified registry to register both WFS and SOS services.

Both TML and SensorML inclusion is being pursued. The OOSTethys SML / TML schema work expanded to try to add an additional level of detail below the current platform metadata to provide metadata about individual sensors. New templates are being crafted to improve the sensor/platform descriptions.

Posted August 1st, 2007 by luisBer
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