29.05.2012 WP9 Geoprocessing
WP9 Skype 29 may 2012
Participants: G. Coro, F. Brito, F. Barchetta
Topics
- Update on Thredds activities;
- Summary of the work about WPS.
On Update on Thredds activities
GC illustrates the procedure implemented so far about the invocation of Thredds by a Java library (Environment Explorer Library or EnvEx)
GC demonstrates how the layers contained in the NetCDF files, lying on Thredds, are indexed by another automatic procedure on the GeoNetwork
A discussion on netCDF CF files follows:
FBrito says that the files the community is interested in, belong to the NetCDF-CF category
GC says that formally there can be files with a NetCDF CF structure which are not associated to layers but that can be, for example, images or points-trajectories. The file we may be interested into are the NetCDF CF ones with a GRID structure
FBarchetta says that the NetCDF CF files from MyOcean are generally of GRID type
FBrito proposes to GC to test the system with some files from MyOcean which Terradue will provide
FBrito says that Terradue is interested in WCSWeb Coverage Service access to the files, because this would allow parallelization on the WPS-Hadoop framework
FBrito advices the usage of WPS-Hadoop for all the geo spatial processing
GC will introduce a method, in EnvEx , for retrieving the WCSWeb Coverage Service address for a certain netCDF layer