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52North @ EGU 2011

April 5, 2011 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

A presentation about the future directions of web-based processing was given at the EGU 2011 in Vienna. Several aspects on the horizon such as streaming workflows, metadata enrichment with uncertainty, seamless integration of (hybrid) Cloud Computing resources as computational backbone for novel Geoprocessing Services such as WPS are outlined.

Besides processing of geospatial data, a big topic at this year’s EGU ESSI session were WMS Time Viewers.

See an KNMI example here and an EUMETSAT one here.

TU Dresden has also developed a nice WMS time enabled viewer.

52°North @ LSF Firmenlauf

March 16, 2011 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

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It was a beautiful day for the 10th Active Sportshop Firmenlauf – perfect weather for the 5 km race! Due to several travellers, who did not make it back to Münster on time and several runners who unfortunately got sick, only two of the four 52°North teams were able to participate. We had some great results! Team 3 came in eleventh overall and Team 2 finished with an honorable 120th place (see results below)! Congrats (particularly to our first-timer)!!!

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OWS-8

March 9, 2011 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, Geoprocessing

After successful participation in previous testbeds, 52North participates in the OGC OWS-8 Testbed, as well. A Web Processing Service (WPS) tailored for Earth Observation (EO) needs is going to be developed. The 52North WPS builds the basis for the EO related adjustments. Expected outcomes are different EO algorithms and WPS-EO profiles. Best practices for transferring and processing large EO datasets will be also created and will be used to improve the underlying 52North WPS framework. A particular focus is put on combining NASA and ESA EO datasets in an on-demand processing fashion. A WCPS extension to the 52North WPS will be also implemented.

The Kickoff is currently held, the agenda packed and we are looking for fruitful outcomes.

Survey Article on Current State of Sensor Web Enablement (SWE 2.0)

March 2, 2011 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Sensor Web Tagged With: OGC, Sensor Observation Service, Sensor Planning Service, Sensor Web, Sensor Web Enablement, SWE

I’m happy to announce that a comprehensive review article on the current design of the Sensor Web Enablement specification framework (‘SWE 2.0’) and on Sensor Web research in general has just been published by the journal ‘sensors’!

The article describes much of the work that has been developed within OGC’s SWE group in the past years and can now be seen under the umbrella of a ‘New Generation SWE’ (or SWE 2.0).

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