Kickoff Meeting

Present:

• Raj Singh, OGC
• Greg Buehler, OGC
• Bruce Bannerman, BOM
• Andrew Woolf, stfc.ac.uk
• Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft
• Mark Leslie, LISAsoft
• Jody Garrnet, LISAsoft
• Linden Varley, LISAsoft, Ardec
• Bastian Schäffer, uni-muenster.de, 52 North
• Albert Remke?, 52 North
• Chris Tweedie, erdas.com
• Ben Domenico, unidata.ucar.edu
• Satish Sankaran, esri.com
• Mark Deaton, esri.com
• Peter Baumann, jacobs-university.de
• Brian Hamlin, OSGeo

Apologies:

• David Lemon, CSIRO
• Lat/Lon
• Mike Pumphrey, OpenGeo, couldn't get a conference line

Actions:

• Action LISAsoft to change Virtual Machines so that they contact 8 High Application profiles
• Action: All participants to claim a Virtual Machine, by adding their names to hardware page. Include contact details, and which database you are connecting to: http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/CcipHardware
• Action: Raj to find an Oracle licence for second database
• Action: Raj to find a participant to set up Oracle
• Action: Raj to coordinate the development of a data model over email.
• Action: Raj to define deliverables in wiki.

Next Meeting:

• Next meeting will be at the same timeslot, for ~ 30 minutes
• http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=08&day=24&year=2009&hour=18&min=15&sec=0&p1=179&sort=2

which is

• Sydney: 08:15am, Tuesday
• Berlin: 12:15am, Tuesday
• Boston: 06:15pm, Monday

Rough Notes:

Andrew Wolf:

• CSML, GML app schema
• Provides Underlying conceptual model
• Climate Science Modeling Language
• ~ 12 feature types
• Extends Observations Model
• Results of Observation is Coverage
• Grid Feature
• Grid Series, ...
• For Ocean and Met Data
• used by British Met Center, and ..
• Exploit Bi-reference pattern to Xlink through to binary content, a GML wrapper, in a similar manner to JPEG 2000

Ben Domenico

• Atmosphere research in Bolder, CA
• Can provide real time weather systems, global forcast models
• BABC have client library for WCS, WMS, WFS
• have GI-Go.
• python client can construct simple clients independant of display and analysis packages
• handy to have separator

Peter Baumann:

• focus on WCS
• have WCS-T
• want to do round trip.
• ... (missed some description)

Satish, ESRI

• ESRI will collaborate with 52 North with Sensor Web

Mark Heiten (sp?), ESRI

• Climate forecast data available
• Wanting
• Arc Map data
• Stream Gauge Data
• Sensor mapping application
• Forecast data
• Urban regions
• Temperature analogue applications

Bastian, 52 North

• Open Source initiative, working with ESRI
• Want to demonstrate SWE interoperability, especially between ESRI and Open Source
• Experience with hydrology

Chris Tweedie, ERDAS

• AWCS
• ERDAS appolo suite
• CSW suite, ...
• Can use web client as well
• Raj asking for SOS client?

Someone else, didn't catch details due to echo

• ?

Bruce Bannerman, Bureau of Meteorology

• Sponors note
• Data back to 100 years
• Some data back to 1788
• Ocean Data
• Water Data
• Weather Data
• have responsiblity for extreme events, like bushfires
• have text databases with spatial information
• have a lot of raster, ocean, climate, ...
• Data created on daily basis, created on super computers
• A lot of data is in internal formats
• Looking at data access and licence, moving to creative commons
• Looking at policy for data, free, fee based, going through management
• Climate Change is important around the world
• Need Open, Quality Data to support Global Analaysis, which aligns with OGC
• Currently scientists are less concerned with standards than science
• Need to find ways to start using data, and find holes in the current standards

Sponsors from CSIRO and 52 North.

52 North:

• OGC standards very relevant for climate
• CCIP is good opportunity to show off climate standards to the world

Raj:

• Talked through the running the CCIP:
• http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/CCIPMission
• http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/CCIPServiceOfferings

Peter Baumann:

• Setting up WCS
• Want to offer other services as well
• WCPS: have some small clients.
• WTCS ...
• Nasa have a client.
• Raj notes that NASA are not ready this year to participate

Raj:

• Notes that there is a catalog client, available from ESRI, but it is not essential part of the project

Hardware:

• Virtual Machines are broken into High App / Low App (LISAsoft reconfiguring to be just 8 High Application profiles)
• There are 2 database Virtual Machines, one being for Postgres
• Peter Baumann, Earthman can use database and application in 1 VM.
• Raj looking into getting Oracle for the 2nd Database

Brian Hallam:

• Can connect to Postgres developers to tune Postgres

Raj: Will have chart of client/server connections

Timeline:

• 8 to 9 weeks to go
• Next 4 weeks on conformance testing servers
• Following 4 weeks, connecting clients

FOSS4G conference:

• There is one 20 minute opening session for Raj, which can include an introduction to the CCIP.
• There is one closing session of ~ 25 minutes, which can be used for a panel to discuss the pros and cons of the CCIP

-- CameronShorter - 18 Aug 2009