NOAA IOOS Using OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) program is implementing a number of OGC standards. These are the same standards that OOSTethys has been using for 2 years.

NOAA will begin the effort of using OGC's Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite of specifications by establishing interoperable access to online databases maintained by the National Weather Service (NWS), the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), the National Ocean Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and the National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service (NESDIS) CoastWatch program. This will be accomplished using web service interfaces and encoding standards developed by the OGC.