Welcome to the MetOceanDWG web

Welcome to the public wiki of the Met Ocean Domain Working group of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Anyone can edit this wiki, but, of course, responsibly. Instructions can be found on the TWiki Text Formatting Rules page.

Events announcements :

• MetOcean Teleconfs and Meetings

• Other connected events

• 1st IE Announcement

The Met Ocean DWG invites any interested party to take part in an Interoperability Experiment (IE) regarding the use of WMS in meteorology. The aim is to demonstrate the benefits of using WMS and that anticipated problems (e.g. time handling) can be resolved.

Participants have to register by the 21st April. There will be a Tele-conference on the 29th of April to agree on a use case and discuss the exact work plan of the IE. Participants are expected to publish their progress on the IE's Wiki page and participate regularly in tele-conferences.

If you are interested please add your details in the list provided at : Committed participants for the 1st IE on WMS interoperability on Time Issue : Spring/summer 2010

Overview

The Meteorology and Oceanography Domain Working Group (Met Ocean DWG) is a recently established community orientated working group of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This is not a group that directly revises OGC standards, but rather enables collaboration and communication between groups with meteorological and oceanographic interests. The Met Ocean DWG maintains a list of topics of interest to the meteorological and oceanographic communities for discussion, defining feedback to the OGC Standards Working Groups (SWG), and performing interoperability experiments. The Met Ocean DWG is intended to be a public forum for communication, and both the email list and this Twiki are open to interested parties.

The DWG extended itself to cover Oceanography as well, because of the long history of collaboration and shared institutions between meteorology and oceanography. Please see the current Met Ocean DWG Charter.

The original charter is at Meteo DWG Charter .

Meetings

• MetOcean DWG Meetings archives

• Next meeting : OGC/TC MDWG session 16 June 2010 8:00-10:00 Washington time see details Agenda&Slides201006

Email list

Subscription to the public email list at : https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/meteo.dwg

Work process management

The Meteo DWG is gathering topics of interest to the community. Some feedback is available from early implementations of the OGC standards for meteorological products.This highlights several issues that are characteristic of the domain and require some best practices recommendations to ensure interoperability between the different implementations. The Group proposes to develop an open discussion on each issue following the Twiki recommended style for discussions described at : http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/TWiki/GoodStyle and some teleconferences that will be announced there, through the email list and via the calendar. An analysis will then be made and submitted for review.

If you have questions or ideas to improve this process, please express it at : suggestions to improve the MDWG working process

Current Activities:

WMS Best Practices:

* Time handling

* Get Capabilities layering or metadata

* Serving extra metadata about Layers and maps

SLD/SE Requirements:

* Styling (using SLD/SE)

Conceptual Modelling:

* Minutes of all telecons

* Weather Exchange Models (XML)

* Use Cases for conceptual modelling

* Spatial Object Types derived from Use Cases

* Controlled vocabulary (going towards a Taxonomy or Ontology)

* INSPIRE Thematic Working Group on Atmospheric Conditions & Meteorological Geographical Features (TWG AC-MF)

Interoperability Experiment for WMS:

* Definition and Planning

* Use Cases selected for the 1st IE on WMS interoperability on Time Issue : Spring/summer 2010

* Committed participants for the 1st IE on WMS interoperability on Time Issue : Spring/summer 2010

* Return of Experience from EGOWS WMS Interoperability Experiment

General issues:

* Performance

Future activities:

* CRSs

* Interoperable Web Map Tiling Services

* Gridded Coverage Data in OGC Standards

* Other topics of interest

Resources for future Interoperability experiments :

* Tank of Use Cases for WMS best practices definition

* Potential Participants

* Implementations

Past activities:

* Questionaire on the use of WMS in meteorology

MetOceanDWG Web Utilities

•   - advanced search
• WebTopicList - all topics in alphabetical order
• WebChanges - recent topic changes in this web
• WebNotify - subscribe to an e-mail alert sent when topics change
• WebRss, WebAtom - RSS and ATOM news feeds of topic changes
• WebStatistics - listing popular topics and top contributors
• WebPreferences - preferences of this web

• 09-DRAFT_MeteorologyOceanography_DWG_Charter.doc: Draft Met & Ocean DWG Charter