MeteoSIX: Geographic information system for the management and dissemination of the meteorological and oceanographic information of Galicia

The European Union has established through the INSPIRE directive a set of standards for developing Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), therefore governments must implement and manage a network of public services on geographic information.

For its implementation are been used web services standards proposed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as:

  1. Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) that define standards for web services interface to access data from sensors such as Sensor Observation Service (SOS), manage alerts as the Sensor Alert Service (SAS) and configuration as the Sensor Planning Service (SPS). These need others like Observations and Measurements (OM) and the Sensor Model Language (SensorML).
  2. The standard interface Web Processing Service (WPS) that enables to serve through web the processing functionality in web-based architectures SOAP and REST.

MeteoSIX helps improve the dissemination of meteorological and oceanographic information produced by the Galician Department of Environment, Land and Infraestructures through MeteoGalicia to the entire community of users. It also provides a framework for testing web processing services to facilitate collaboration between MeteoGalicia, as a data server, and the Supercomputing Center of Galicia (CESGA), as provider of high performance computing for efficient processing of these data.

Objectives

  • Set up a SDI (Spatial Data Infraestrutura) of meteorological and oceanographic information that will be implemented in MeteoGalicia and CESGA.
  • Development of a web to allow integrated access to meteorological and oceanographic information of MeteoGalicia.
  • Deployment of applications of internal management.
  • Validation, tests and quality control of the system and implementation of components and nodes in MeteoGalicia and CESGA.