Geo Web Portal Candidate Presentation GEOSS Workshop Demonstration

Geo. Web Portal Candidate Presentation GEOSS Workshop Demonstration IPY Geo. North Yellowknife, Canada 20 August 2007 Presented by: Robert Thomas Marketing Manager, Compusult August, 2007

Company Background • Head Office in Newfoundland, Canada with a U. S. subsidiary, Compusult Systems, Inc. (CSi), in Virginia and a branch office in Nova Scotia, Canada. • In operation for over 22 Years • Innovative and Diversified Products and Services • A Global Leader in implementing OGC specifications and standards • Specialists in: – – – Geospatial Portal Development and Deployment Relational Database Management Systems Geomatics and Geographic Information Systems Internet and Web-based Applications and Services Custom Electronics Design and Integration for Business & Defence Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

Committed to Standards • Extensive experience in the review, implementation and participation in the following standards-based initiatives: – ISO/IEC 11179 - Specification and Standardization of Data Elements – ISO/TC 211 - CD 19115. 3 Geographic Information - Metadata – ISO/TC 211 - CD 19119 Geographic Information - Services – ISO/TC 211 - CD 19118. 2 - Geographic Information Encoding Rules – GEO Profile - ANSI Z 39. 50/FGDC Metadata Standard – GILS (Global Information Locator Service) Profile – U. S. Department of Defense Metadata Standard (DDMS) – – – – OGC - Web Services Architecture OGC - Reference Model OGC - Web Map Service (WMS) OGC - Geography Markup Language (GML) OGC - Web Feature Service (WFS) OGC - Filter Encoding Implementation Specification OGC - Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) OGC - Context Document OGC - Catalogue (CSW) OGC - Gazetteer Service OGC - Web Coverage Service (WCS) OGC - Web Feature Service OGC - Gazetteer (WFS-G) Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

Our Vision of the Geo. Web Portal Issues/Problems • Managing diverse and distributed sources of geospatial resources (data, applications, and documents) • Finding reliable, timely, useful information • Inability to collaborate • Using old or wrong data • Producing redundant information • Duplicate spending ? ? ? Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

Our Vision of the Geo. Web Portal • The GEO Geo. Web Portal Architecture The GEO Web Portal shall provide the following core services: • Portal Services – a single point of access to geospatial information on the portal. • Portrayal Services - used to process the geospatial information and prepare it for presentation to the user. • Catalog Services - used to locate geospatial services and information wherever it resides and to provide information to the user on the services and information found • Data Services - used to provide geospatial content and data processing, including but not limited to supporting digital rights management Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

The Compusult Web Enterprise Suite (WES) Geo. Web Portal • A suite of applications providing a real-time, web-based, geospatially enabled portal to provide centralized interoperability, discovery, collaboration, sharing, access and management over highly disparate information. Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

WES Geo. Web Portal Architecture Overview • An advanced Geospatial Interoperability Portal Infrastructure System. • WES components are tightly integrated, open standards-based applications employing OGC/ISO interoperability specifications. • Deployed using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). • All within a secure, industry standard JRS 168 portal environment. • WES is one of the most comprehensive, end-to-end geospatial portal solutions of its type available. Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

How WES is Currently Used • To implement local, regional, national, & global geospatial portals through a standardized Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). • WES Portals are Current Deployed in Support of: – Homeland Security – Emergency Response – Situational Awareness – Public Health And Safety – Environmental Management and Research – Resource Management Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

Selected Organizations using Web Enterprise Suite • • • The U. S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) USGS EROS Data Center (EDC) Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Geo. Eye (formally Space Imaging Corporation) Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) National Air Photo Library (NAPL) The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (Canada) • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) • U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

WES Geo. Web Portal Architecture Diagram WES Portal – A Customized version of Liferay (an open source portal framework) WES Printer WES Gazetteer WES Discovery WES Viewer My Portal GEO Web site WES Browser My Maps Community Web Community Portals Web Portals WES Catalog WES Publisher Other Clients and Decision Support Tools GEOSS Clearinghouse Other Data Sources Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

WES Geo. Web Portal Architecture Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult –

WES Supports the Following Standards: • OGC Geospatial standards – WFS, WCS, WMC, CS-W, GML, SLD, CAT 2. 0, OGC Filter Encoding, WFS-G • Metadata Standards – ISO 19115 – FGDC GEOProfile – DDMS (Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Standard) • IT and Portal Standards – JSR 168, SOAP, J 2 EE, XML, WSDL, Java, RDBMS, J 2 ME, etc. Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

WES Platform Independence • WES software components have been designed and implemented to operate across multiple platforms. Operating Systems currently supported: • Windows Server 2000/2003 • IRIX • Linux • Solaris • HP-UX • The hardware platforms supported: • Intel Pentium and Xeon class hardware • Sun Microsystems • HP UNIX-based Workstations and Servers • SGI Workstations and Servers • Clients: • Any hardware configuration with either Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 or higher, or Netscape version 7 or higher, or Mozilla Firefox 1. 7 or higher. Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

WES: The Total Geospatial Portal Solution • Geospatial Data Discovery - Search, manage and discover geospatial data from disparate data sources. • Geospatial Data Fusion/Portrayal - Access, preview and combine distributed and/or disparate geospatial data and services. • Geospatial Data Dissemination - Publish data and services to the WES catalogue supporting OGC catalogue standards. • Geospatial Data Delivery - Deliver data products and services to end users including e-commerce capabilities. • Geospatial Collaboration - Discussion Forums, Document Sharing, Image Library, RSS Clients, Calendar, WIKI Nodes and many other portlets are included. • Geospatial User Management - End users can belong to managed ‘Groups’ or ‘Communities’ providing geo-data access control and customized user environments. Users can dynamically access and customize information and services via the “My Portal” portlet. Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

Geo. Web Portlets included in WES • Discovery: OGC CSW discovery interface client for searching disparate data holdings • Viewer: An advanced geo-viewer and caching system • Browser: The WES Browser provides direct access to catagorized data • Publisher: Publish / disseminate geo data from an extensive variety of sources • Administration: Control interface, users, content all through the portal • Collaboration: Many portlets to promote collaboration • Other: Communities of Interest, language options plus many others Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

Geo. Web Portlets included in WES Discovery Client Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World

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Geo. Web Portlets included in WES Browser Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World ©

Geo. Web Portlets included in WES Publisher Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World ©

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Geo. Web Portlets included in WES • Other Functionality – Communities of Interest –

Benefits of a WES Geo. Web Portal • Deploying a WES Geo. Web Portal is easier, faster, and less costly. • Provides an effective framework for the distribution of diverse and complex information … It Organizes a Spatial Data Infrastructure • A WES Geo. Web Portal supports decision making in critical situations. • A WES Geo. Web Portal implementation enables faster decision making and better coordination across multiple departments and/or agencies, countries. . . • A WES Geo. Web Portal Supports and Facilitates: – – Faster Geodata Discovery Increased Direct Access and Use Improvements in Data Quality and Coverage Improved Collaboration and Interaction Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

Additional WES Features • A thin client/human user interface for standard Web browsers. • Highly customizable and flexible interface that is easily integrated into a variety of look and feels. • Scalability, Reliability and Availability demonstrated through NGA Horizontal Fusion, NASA and Geo. Eye implementations • Metadata management, mapping, geo-coding, & data downloading. • Data storage in industry-standard database management systems. • Integration with standard Internet and Defense security policy decision services NCES (i. e. , LDAP, PKI, Policy Decision, Data Labeling, etc. ). • A complete system dedicated to GEOSS. Delivering Innovative Solutions to the World © Compusult – All rights reserved

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