[OSGeo Africa] Fwd: [SDI-Africa] OGC announces Climate-Hydrologic Information Sharing Pilot Demo webinar

[Gavin Fleming]

    OGC announces Climate-Hydrologic Information Sharing Pilot Demo webinar

22 March 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) 
<http://www.opengeospatial.org/> announced that it will demonstrate the 
results of the OGC Climate-Hydrologic Information Sharing Pilot, Phase 1 
(CHISP-1) <http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/chisp-1> 
at a webinar to be held from 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, 
April 16, 2013. The public is invited to register for the webinar 
<https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/517969410>. After the webinar, 
detailed CHISP-1 Engineering Reports will be made available to the 
public on the OGC Public Engineering Report website 
<http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/per>.

CHISP-1 is prototyping an innovative inter-disciplinary, inter-agency 
and international virtual observatory system for publishing water 
resources information collected from observations and forecasts in the 
U.S. and Canada, building on current networks and capabilities. CHISP-1 
is designed to support:

-- Hydrologic modeling for historical and current stream flow and 
groundwater conditions. This requires the integration of trans-boundary 
stream flow and groundwater well data from the Canadian Groundwater 
Information Network and the US National Groundwater Monitoring Network, 
as well as national river network data from multiple agencies, including 
the US National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and the Canadian National 
Hydrology Network (NHN). The demo focuses on cross-border communication 
about Souris River and Milk River water levels. The emphasis is on time 
series data and real-time flood monitoring.

-- Modeling and assessment of nutrient load into the Great Lakes. This 
requires accessing water-quality data from multiple agencies and 
integrating the data with stream flow information for calculating loads. 
The emphasis is on discrete sampled water quality observations, linking 
those to specific NHD stream reaches and catchments, and additional 
metadata for sampled data.

CHISP-1 demonstrates how adherence to open service interface and 
encoding standards from the OGC in proprietary and open source software 
makes it possible to link hydrologic observations data to the stream 
network, enabling queries of conditions upstream from a given location 
to return data from all relevant gages and well locations. This has 
previously not been practical with the diverse data sources available.

CHISP-1 also provides a model approach for bridging differences in 
semantics across information models and processes used by various data 
producers, to improve hydrologic and water quality modeling capabilities.

The following organizations sponsored CHISP-1:

  * GeoConnections (Natural Resources Canada)
  * US Geological Survey (USGS)
  * US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)


The following participants provided standards-based technology solutions:

  * Explorus Data Solutions Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  * Geographic Information System Research Center, Feng Chia University
    (GIS.FCU), Taichung, Chinese Taipei
  * Natural Resources Canada
  * RPS-ASA, South Kingstown, Rhode Island USA


Data and web services were provided by the American Geosciences 
Institute, Environment Canada, the EPA, Natural Resources Canada and USGS.

OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are part 
of the OGC Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative 
prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven 
candidate spatial encoding and interface standards into the OGC 
Standards Program, where they are formalized for release as adopted OGC 
Standards.

The CHISP-1 Demo Webinar is being produced in cooperation withDirections 
Media <http://www.directionsmedia.net/>.

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 480 companies, 
government agencies, research organizations, and universities 
participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available 
geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that 
"geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services and 
mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make 
geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any 
application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website 
at http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact.


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