2018 ESIP Summer Meeting

One of the more powerful features of IDL and python programming languages is the where() command (and its corrolary find() command in MATLAB). These commands allow users to filter variables of interest based on data thresholds, data values in other variables and other criteria, allowing downstream operations (in the code) on a filtered subset of the original data array values. For data access services including web services for satellite data products we want users to have the ability to perform similar operations: sub select data values from a specific geophysical variable based on data in other variables. This could be simple space/time subsetting requests or more complex requests that require inputs from quality variables, bit flag "masks" and other ancillary variables. In this session we will look at the state of several popular web services as well as database architectures that can perform these requests. The goal is determine a first iteration "gap and trade" study of the different services and data access methods.

The  presentations will be as follows (about 20 minutes each)

OPeNDAP: James Gallagher
ERDDAP: Bob Simons
Webification: Edward Armstrong
OGC WCPS: Luis Bermudez