SPOT Image and NASA have teamed to deploy open standards based OpenGIS Web Coverage Services (WCS) using IONIC’s RedSpider Web 3.1. These Web Services are already in use in the latest Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Interoperability Program initiative, the OGC Web Services 2 (OWS2) testbed. NASA’s contribution comes through their Synergy IV contract with Raytheon, with access to the NASA Earth Observing System Data Pools.
As part of OWS2, these services will support the rapid development and prototyping of open standards for advanced image processing and service chaining efforts by multiple OpenGIS members including Intergraph, IONIC, PCI Geomatics, George Mason U Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology and Standards (LAITS), and Great-Circle Technologies.
As part of the OWS2 team, IONIC will further enable OpenGIS WCS by leveraging WSDL and SOAP bindings. The OWS2 standards development focus includes image processing service chaining for online raw imagery access, ortho-rectification, mosaicing, coverage portrayal service styling, coordinate transformation/reprojection, and image format transformation.
