Abstract
An Open Geospatial Consortium Standards-based Arctic Climatology Sensor Network Prototype
Track: Atmosphere, Climate, and Weather
Author
We have constructed a prototype Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards-based Arctic climatology sensor network in response to recent developments in sensor technology and Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) wireless communications. The OGC standards enable increased, interoperability, scalability, and extensibility for geospatial sensor networks at reduced cost. We linked a variety of meteorological, soil and image sensors to wide area wireless networks to automatically populate mirrored File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers running Microsoft Server 2003. The data is automatically harvested from the remote site over redundant 4XT-1 satellite links to the central data center in Cincinnati, Ohio where it is formatted to comply with the new OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiatives to create an OGC-compliant geodatabase within Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The data is finally published to the web creating a real-time WebGIS based on Esri's ArcGIS Server technology for retrieval and visualization.
Andrew Rettig
University of Cincinnati
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Richard Beck
University of Cincinnati
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Timothy Rettig
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