What We Need From YOU:
1) Please identify the primary Geospatial Web Services POC at your DAAC and populate the 'Primary Stakeholders' table below.
2) Please populate your DAAC's inventory using the Q&A in the 'Current Inventory' table below. Please use the answer guidelines provided but feel free to add additional, clarifying, or descriptive text as needed. (Note: if you have feedback or previous responses included please determine what to keep as part of the actual inventory collection)
How? Please "EDIT" (above) and insert your text in the table cells under your DAAC (or as appropriate).
Inputs requested by December 7th
Primary Stakeholders
| POC | DAAC | Handle | Area of Expertise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example: Brian Tisdale | ASDC | brian.e.tisdale@nasa.gov | WMS, WCS, ArcGIS | |
| Rudiger Gens | ASF | rgens@alaska.edu | Rudi Gens | ArcGIS |
| Sri Vinay | SEDAC | sri@ciesin.columbia.edu | @sri.ciesin.columbia.edu | W*S |
| Tammy Walker | ORNL | beatytw@ornl.gov | ArcGIS | |
| Yaxing Wei | ORNL | weiy@ornl.gov | WMS, WCS, THREDDS | |
| Vardis Tsontos (Data engineer) / Sandra Cosic (user services) | PODAAC | vtsontos@jpl.nasa.gov, Sandra.M.Cosic@jpl.nasa.gov | Vardis, Sandra | OPeNDAP, THREDDS, ... |
| Wenli Yang | GES DISC | wenli.yang@nasa.gov | Wenli Yang | WCS, WMS, ArcGIS |
| Sean Bailey | OB.DAAC | sean.w.bailey@nasa.gov | ||
| Shannon Flynn | GHRC | sflynn@itsc.uah.edu | OPeNDAP | |
| Navid Golpayegani | LAADS | navid.golpayegani@nasa.gov | Navid Golpayegani | web services |
| Carey Noll | CDDIS | carey.e.noll@nasa.gov | ||
| Aaron Friesz | LPDAAC | |||
| Paul Madden | NSIDC | pmadden@nsidc.org |
Current Inventory
| DAAC | Alaska Satellite Facility DAAC (ASF DAAC) | Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) | Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) | Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC (GHRC DAAC) | Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) | Land Processes (LP DAAC) | Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) | National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC) | Ocean Biology DAAC (OB.DAAC) | Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC) | Socioeconomic Data and Applications Data Center (SEDAC) | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERVICE TYPES | Do you have Web Mapping Service (WMS) enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | Y | Y | N We are investigating GeoServer 2.9.2 as a solution which could include WMS | Y | Y, | N (evaluating) | Y, currently for a handful of datasets https://nsidc.org/api/mapservices/NSIDC/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities | Y | N | Y (via THREDDS) | Y | ||
Do you have Web Coverage Service (WCS) enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | Y | Y | N We are investigating GeoServer 2.9.2 as a solution which could include WCS | Y https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/daac-bin/wcsL3? https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/daac-bin/wcsAIRSL3? | N, but currently investigating | Y | Y, currently for a handful of datasets https://nsidc.org/api/mapservices/NSIDC/ows?service=wcs&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities | Y | N | Y (via THREDDS) | Y WCS 2.0.1: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/geoserver/ows?service=WCS&version=2.0.1&request=GetCapabilities WCS 1.1.1: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/geoserver/ows?service=wcs&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities | |||
Do you have Web Feature Service (WFS) enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | Y | N We are investigating GeoServer 2.9.2 as a solution which could include WFS | N | N | N | Y, currently for a handful of datasets https://nsidc.org/api/mapservices/NSIDC/ows?service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities | Not Yet, but are working on this now. | N | N | Y | |||
Do you have Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | N | N We are investigating GeoServer 2.9.2 as a solution which could include WMTS | Y | Y, but see note above | N (in progress) | N | N | N | Y | Y | |||
Do you have ArcGIS Image Service enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | Y | N | N (but in progress) | Y, but just prototype | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | |||
Do you have w10n enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | Y (as Hyrax "viewer" on certain datasets; example, https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/w10n/msu/t2lt/data/nc/tltday_5.6.nc/) | N (evaluating) | N | ||||||||||
Do you have Web Processing Service (WPS) enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | N | N | N | ||||||||||
Do you have a Geoprocessing Service enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | N Exploring Geoserver 2.9.2 | N | N | ||||||||||
Do you have Tile Mapping Service (TMS) enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | N | N | N | ||||||||||
Do you have Web Mapping Service - Cached (WMS-C) enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | N | N | N | ||||||||||
Do you have OPeNDAP enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | Y https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/ https://fcportal.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/ Additional future/development system using OPeNDAP/Hyrax 1.13.2 | Y https://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/opendap/ | Y | ||||||||||
Do you have ArcGIS Feature Service enabled? (Y/N; URL for endpoint) | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | |||
Do you have other web services enabled? (Y/N; Service Name; URL for endpoint) | Y API for catalog search | Y, OPeNDAP | Custom search and discovery with FTP | Y OPeNDAP/Hyrax: https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/ https://fcportal.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/ Additional future/development system using OPeNDAP/Hyrax 1.13.2 and possibly GeoServer 2.9.2 | Y (OPeNDAP, THREDDS, GDS) | Y, OPeNDAP | Y LAADS Web Services https://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/tools-and-services/lws-classic/api.php | N | Y (THREDDS) | Y (OPeNDAP) | Y (THREDDS, OPeNDAP, PODAAC-WS, w10n-"webification", GIBS titled imaging service) http://thredds.jpl.nasa.gov/thredds/catalog.html http://opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/ https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ws/ http://podaac-w10n.jpl.nasa.gov/w10n/?output=html | Y -- Web Processing Service (WPS), ArcGIS Geoprocessing Service, TMS, and WMS-C | ||
| SOFTWARE | How (or Where) are your services enabled? | See above for the url's associated with the web services | Via OPeNDAP/Hyrax, currently: | See above for the url's associated with the web services | See above. | |||||||||
What Geospatial Service Software do you utilize? (Please list all) A8 (ArcGIS Server, Hyrax/ncWMS, Geoserver, THREDDS, MapServer, Other) | MapServer | ArcGIS Server, GeoServer, OPeNDAP (Hyrax), | Current: OPeNDAP/Hyrax Investigating GeoServer 2.9.2 | MapServer, OPeNDAP, THREDDS, GRADS, ArcGIS Image Server (in progress) | ArcGIS Server, GeoServer, OPeNDAP (Hyrax) | OPeNDAP (Hyrax), MapServer | GeoServer, Hyrax, MapServer, MapCache | ArcGIS Server, THREDDS, MapServer | OPeNDAP | Servers: Hyrax/ncWMS, THREDDS GUI client tools: LAS, HiTIDE, SOTO http://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/las http://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/hitide http://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/soto-2d/soto.html | ArcGIS Server, Geoserver, GDAL/GeoTools. We are planning on using THREDDS Server for some selected data sets. | |||
| CHALLENGES | Do you experience a lack of data interoperability? (Y/N - If Y, explain) | N | Y | Y; format issues with some datasets/projections (e.g., LIS HDF-format climatology in ArcGIS) | Y | Y | N | N | N | N (but in-situ data integration is more challenging) | Y -- schema interoperability for WPS service chaining | |||
Do you experience a lack of technical expertise? (Y/N - If Y, what experience are you missing and what do you need?) | N | N | Y (Detailed information on OPeNDAP server-side functions and their documentation) | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | ||||
What is unavailable or inadequate in your current Softwares or Programs?
| Subsetting, Tiling, Mosaicking, Reprojecting, using data in Object Storage with MapServer, Hydrax | Ability to subset/map data in broad array of formats (we are investigating ERDDAP as a solution) | We have had trouble getting geospatial subsetting working in Hyrax OPeNDAP. We are exploring capabilities of WCS for subsetting, reformatting, reprojection and aggregation. | |||||||||||
| Do you find adequate and available Softwares or Programs? | N/A | Y, but agree improvements would be helpful (e.g. maturation of WCS on OPeNDAP) and on need for better support of CF discrete/trajectory/... data in THREDDS - that work is ongoing) | We were not able to achieve satisfactory results when utilizing Hyrax's built-in Godiva/ncWMS combination in the past, and this is why we are investigating GeoServer | Y (but agree on needing improvement) | Y, but improvements would be helpful (e.g. maturation of WCS on OPeNDAP) | Y | N | Y (but expect improvements, e.g. better support of CF discrete/trajectory/... data in THREDDS) | Y | Y (agree on need for better support of CF discrete/trajectory/... data in THREDDS - that work is ongoing) | Y (WPS has been an issue) | |||
What Softwares or Programs do you require? (Name(s)) | Don't know | NA | ||||||||||||
Do you experience data distortion or quality issues? (Y/N - If Y, explain) | N | N | N | N (but science team may occasionally find issues in data and then reprocess) | ?? | N | N | No idea what you mean by this. | N | Y -- size limits in data access can require loss of spatial detail (lower resolution) | ||||
Do you have concern over data integrity? (Y/N - If Y, explain) | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | ||||
Do you experience challenges with login and access controls? (Y/N - If Y, what experience are you missing and what do you need?) | N | Y | Y Some 3rd party software does not worked well with Earthdata Login in combination with our OPeNDAP system | N | N | Y (Connecting URS to 3rd party software0 | Y | N | Y (unclear how URS will play with some of these Webservices for machine-to-machine requests) | Y -- login requirements for public services can hinder interoperability | ||||
Do you experience a lack of understanding of GIS? (Y/N - If Y, what experience are you missing and what do you need?) | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | ||||
| DATA | What type of data are your customers interested in? | L1 SAR data in Geotiff format (ie GIS friendly) Interferograms Value-added products for deforestation, flood monitoring, deformation | LIS Climatology data (in a GIS-friendly format) | Atmosphere and Land products from NASA (MODIS, OMI), NOAA (AVHRR, VIIRS, OMPS), ESA (MERIS, Sentinel 3) satellite instruments and aircraft instruments (MAS) | ||||||||||
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