[Geodata] NASA Earth Observations WMS

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> Hi osgeo!
> 
> I am pleased to announce the availability of a new service 
> for the distribution of Earth science remote sensing imagery 
> -- NASA Earth Observations Web Map Service (NEO WMS). This 
> Web Map Service is built upon the NEO collection at 
> http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and will hopefully facilitate 
> the use of this type of imagery by a wider community.
> 
> Most of the imagery in NEO is stored at 0.1 degree resolution
> (3600x1800) but some is only at 0.25 (1440x720) and these 
> resolutions are completely dependent upon what the sensors 
> can collect and what our data partners can produce for us. In 
> time some of the datasets may be available at up to 1km 
> resolution, but that is still far on the horizon.
> 
> The NEO WMS understands WMS versions 1.1.1 and 1.3.0. The 
> capabilities documents for these are at the following urls:
> 
> 1.1.1:
> http://neowms.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/wms/wms?version=1.1.1&service=
> WMS&request=GetCapabilities
> 
> 1.3.0:
> http://neowms.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/wms/wms?version=1.3.0&service=
> WMS&request=GetCapabilities
> 
> This is the initial release of the WMS and it may be considered beta.
> Please let me know if you run into any issues or have any suggestions.
> I am still in the process of flushing out some of the 
> ancillary metadata to appear in the capabilities documents 
> but the layers should function as described by the WMS specs.
> 
> Lastly, if you find the collection useful, please let me know 
> how you are using it.

Thanks for the info, and this valuable resource.  And BEATIFUL job on
actually encoding WMS Capabilities Layer/MetadataURL with actual FGDC
documents -- a dream for standards-based portals!

..Tom