Who is using ncWMS?

ncWMS is used by a number of data providers world-wide, to provide imagery of data to GIS clients and to drive data visualization websites. Here are a selection of current users. Please email j.d.blower [at] reading.ac.uk if you would like to be added to this list, or if you want your entry amended.

United States Geological Survey

From Rich Signell: "ncWMS is a great example of a standards-based web service that can produce maps (images) from CF 1.0 (or actually Unidata CDM) structured grid data, rectilinear or curvilinear. We are using it for quick browse of ocean modeling results and bathymetry grids. We've found it very useful for Q/C of large datasets, providing a relatively fast tool that multiple users can use to explore. For example, when version 4.0 of the SRTM30+ global bathymetry/topography was announced, we added it to ncWMS, and folks in different regions around the US used it to check US Coastal Waters. Because it was easy and fast to zoom, pan and change the color scale, we were able to quickly identify some problem areas due to bad bathymetry from ship tracks. We then reported these problems back to the developer, who fixed many of them in the following version."

Here are some screenshots from the USGS's  website, which is currently experimental:

Curvilinear forecast model output from Chesapeake Bay	HF radar surface currents
SST front probability	Bathymetry from SRTM30+ Worldwide 30 sec topography/bathy

Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK

From Mike Grant: "At PML we use ncWMS for distribution of operation model forecasts from the Met Office (as part of the  NCOF group) and visualisation of satellite data from internally-produced netcdf files. We also use the WMS component of ncWMS as a feed to a variety of other web portals, e.g. for the InterRisk FP7 project, both inside and outside PML. The speed is excellent - that's our primary reason for using it. It's also easy to add large number of netcdfs to in a automated fashion."

Godiva2 portal:  http://ncof.npm.ac.uk/ncWMS

InterRisk portal:  http://www.npm.ac.uk/rsg/projects/interrisk

European operational oceanography

ncWMS is being used to power the "Dynamic Quick View" portals for the  MERSEA and  ECOOP projects. It will also be used in the recently-started  MyOcean project for disseminating European operational oceanography data to a variety of users.

MERSEA Dynamic Quick View site:  http://www.resc.reading.ac.uk/mersea/

ECOOP Dynamic Quick View site:  http://www.resc.reading.ac.uk/ecoop/

Norwegian Institute of Marine Research

From Sjur Ringheim Lid: "As a part of our participation in the  ECOOP project, we are currently using ncWMS for are displaying gridded modeling data for different parameters in the North sea and Norwegian sea for a time period of about 20 years. We have also started using ncWMS to show modeled "real-time" distributions of Cod and Herring larvae and their drift around the Norwegian coast. This is a collaborate project together with the Norwegian Meteorological Institute."

Godiva2 portal:  http://talos.nodc.no:8080/ncWMS/godiva2.html

Cod and herring larvae drift data:  http://talos.nodc.no:8080/ncWMS/larve.html

National Geophysical Data Centre, NOAA

From John Cartwright: "We are using ncWMS in conjunction with the THREDDS Data Server to host netcdf (grid) data files. This is currently an experimental service and not advertised to the public. We offer a number of other WMS services that are hosted on ArcIMS/ArcSDE/Oracle Spatial and the ability to unify these with the netcdf access under the common WMS/WCS request API is a very good thing."

INSEA project

From Arjen de Korte: "We are using ncWMS for the INSEA project to display NetCDF/OpenDAP model results on a map. We have our own Javascript GIS client that I have adopted to understand ncWMS (with Mapserver in between that does the actual WMS requests). ncWMS has helped us greatly to visualise NetCDF files on a map; it was actually the only product I could find that could do what we wanted."

INSEA GIS viewer:  http://www.insea.info/gis/

Canada-Newfoundland Operational Ocean Forecasting System (C-NOOFS)

From Andry Ratsimandresy: "One of the most attracting features of GODIVA2 is that scientists and anybody interested in looking at ocean processes have a very quick and easy way of displaying ocean property fields. These can be either on regular or irregular grid, no need to write your own graphic program, everything is just at one mouse click. Configuring a large data set to be included in GODIVA2 is also relatively easy and help from developers is available in a reasonable time"

C-NOOFS website:  http://www.c-noofs.gc.ca/ (Godiva2 site not yet public)

CMCC Data Distribution Centre, Italy

ncWMS/Godiva2 has been fully integrated into the data grid portal for the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy.

CMCC DDC:  http://gandalf.unile.it:8080/DDCPortal/

Climate-G Portal, International testbed

Climate-G is a distributed testbed for climate change addressing challenging data and metadata management issues at a very large scale. The main scope of Climate-G is to allow scientists to carry out geographical and cross-institutional data discovery, access, visualization and sharing of climate data. Visualization is performed through ncWMS/Godiva2 which has been successfully integrated into the Climate-G portal .

Climate-G home page:  http://grelc.unile.it:8080/ClimateG-DDC/cindex.jsp