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Spring, 2007

New user applications: Carolinas Coast
www.weather.gov/carolinascoast/

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May, 2007

US-CERT/NIST Vulnerability Summary for OPeNDAP
May 22, 2007
nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-2769

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February, 2007

OPeNDAP Developers Meeting
OPeNDAP Developers Meeting will be held 21-23 Feb 2007 in Boulder CO.
www.opendap.org/

The OGC Seeks Participants for Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment
www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/667

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January, 2007

OGC Adopts ebRIM Metamodel for Catalogues
www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/655

A new IOOS Discussion Forum is rolled out
community.csc.noaa.gov/ocean

The CSC Data Transport Lab initiates new projects with SOS and GML Simple Features Profile
www.csc.noaa.gov/DTL/dtlprojects.html

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November, 2006

The IOOS Regional Coordination Workshop, November 6-9 2006, Chicago IL.
www.csc.noaa.gov/nfra/

Upcoming News
IOOS conceptual design documents now available at: www.ocean.us/IOOS_Arch_Proposals
Matlab OPeNDAP Oceanographic Toolbox http://opendap.org/download/ml-toolbox.html
SeaCOOS developer Jeremy Cothran proposes ObsRSS XML format, and deploys data in KML for sensor visualization www.ogleearth.com/index3.html

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October, 2006

MMI Sensor Metadata Interoperability Workshop, October 19 & 20
Two tracks are planned, one for evaluating sensor metadata standards and a second for sensor metadata interoperability training. Visit the MMI page for more information.
http://marinemetadata.org/examples/.../workshopagenda

Results from MMI Sensor Metadata Interoperability Workshop
http://marinemetadata.org/.../results

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September, 2006

OGC Membership Approves Four Sensor Related OGC Specifications, September 1, 2006
Sensor Model Language (SensorML), TransducerML (TML), Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and Sensor Planning Service (SPS). Visit the OGC page for more information.
http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/612

New Web Scraper Code Base
Boeing released the first draft of a prototype that harvests NDBC, COOPS and several OPeNDAP feeds into a geospatial database and publishes via an OGC connection. Get the preliminary release package with an ERD, Class Diagrams, UML's and the source code.

Related Attachments:
Level.1.UML.doc,
Level.2.UML.doc,
Boeing.Source.6.19.2006.zip,
WWL.Data.Dictionary.pdf,
WWL.ERD.pdf,
WWL.ETL.OMD.pdf

New Data Transport Laboratory Web site
Visit the new Data Transport Laboratory Web Site at: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/DTL/

Web Service Implementations
Developers from across several regions have collaborated over the last year to release a prototype implementation of a Sensor Observation Service. A cookbook was written to help others implement this data transport technology. Visit their site.
www.oostethys.org/...cookbook-v0.1

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August, 2006
New Desktop Interoperability Tool
Northrop Grumman and their subcontractor Applied Science Associates released an experimental ArcGIS extension for OPeNDAP developed under a recent Ocean.US demonstration activity. Read the documentation here and email Daniel.Martin@NOAA.gov for more information. New OPeNDAP Geospatial Gateway Services
Northrop Grumman and their subcontractor Applied Science Associates released a new gateway application that translates OPeNDAP services to OGC/WMS and WFS. Source code available from Daniel.Martin@NOAA.gov
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July, 2006
CIR/DTL presentation and Pacific region exchange
Members of the Pacific region met in Seattle to provide input to CIR and Data Transport Laboratory activities and to spend two days sharing and planning solutions to expose locally collected data using interoperable techniques. Read the meeting material.
www.unidata.ucar.edu/.../Seattle.pdf
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April, 2006
A National Water Quality Monitoring Network for U.S. Coastal Waters and their Tributaries Report
Released by the ACWI and NWQMC
http://water.usgs.gov/.../design/
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February, 2006
U.S.GOOS Steering Committee Meeting XII
Draft Meeting Report
http://www.ocean.tamu.edu/GOOS/GSCXII/gsc12.html
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Non-date specific
NWIS Web Services
USGS continues to harden their experimental web service that provides access to the NWIS for stream gage data in near real time. Currently access is limited to authenticated users; keep tuned for more information as this service matures.
Melbourne Beach Wave Gauge (FSU)- A local data provider sample:
The Beach and Shores Resource Center at Florida State University hosts the FCFP Wave Data Web Site. Archived data is also available in monthly static CSV files.
http://beach13.beaches.fsu.edu/melbourne/melbourne.asp
OPeNDAP, Server4 Software 0.9.1 Alpha Release
Includes customized catalogs, inheritance, lighter front end and much more.
http://opendap.org/download/s4_server.html