Web Based Weather Portal (Air Force)
Abstract
The Web Based Weather Portal tests and qualifies ‘Visual Weather’ software to provide commercial-off-the-shelf capability to ingest, decode, and display weather observations and forecast products. The portal will expand its use to distribute Air Force Weather processing needs across the enterprise in a net centric mode providing efficiencies, expanded capabilities and cost savings over current approaches. In particular, it can be used for meteorological data processing and visualization, contain interactive forecasting tools, enhance forecast production and workflow management, and develop adherence to the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) standards for Web Mapping Services (WMS), Web Coverage Services, and Web Feature Services (WFS). In addition, Visual Weather is compatible with the Joint Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Broker Language (JMBL), which is Air Force Weather’s current Web service approach to the exchange of information between meteorological and oceanographic data providers and user applications. The use of Visual Weather reduces the time the weather forecaster spends on product generation and allows more time for quality control of the resultant weather product. The distribution of data across the Air Force Weather Enterprise will also provide a level of Continuity of Operations that currently does not exist if connection to the Air Force Weather Agency is lost.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 38c5615bf9a502e7982e032821e04080