The MSC GeoMet API Platform<\/a>, through the use of open standards, allows users to freely and quickly access thousands of real-time and archived weather, climate, and water datasets and products and integrate them in their domain-specific applications and decision support systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLowering the barrier to access is a key goal for MSC data dissemination,\u201d said Tom Kralidis, Senior Systems Scientist at MSC and co-chair of the OGC API – Records Standard Working Group (SWG)<\/a>. \u201cMSC has been a long time provider of weather\/climate\/water data using OGC first generation Web Service standards such as WMS and WCS, and is now implementing the emerging OGC API standards in support of modernizing its MSC GeoMet API platform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe OGC API move to a resource-oriented architecture, modern technologies, and Web architecture has opened the door to a wider ecosystem of tools for communities to build, serve, and consume OGC APIs using current approaches,\u201d continued Tom. \u201cThis has resulted in increased efficiency in the development, testing, provisioning, and integration of our services. This not only benefits our long time users, but also lowers the barrier to new information communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSC is an enthusiastic early adopter of the new OGC APIs, implementing OGC API – Features<\/a> and OGC API – Processes<\/a> in its GeoMet API Platform, with plans to implement OGC API – Records<\/a>, – Coverages<\/a>, – Maps<\/a>, – Tiles<\/a>, and – Environmental Data Retrieval<\/a> once they are approved and released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOGC API \u2013 Features is used [on the MSC GeoMet API Platform] to provide access to archive climate and water data, as well as the recent implementation of real-time hydrometric data and surface weather observations,\u201d said Tom. \u201cAdditionally, OGC API \u2013 Processes is used to enable users to extract time series from climate simulations and historical products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe OGC API standards were chosen due to their ease of implementation and use. Implementing OGC APIs has made it easier for MSC to integrate with our line of business data flows, infrastructure, as well as allowing for rapid application development of our Canadian Centre for Climate Services climate viewer<\/a> and data extraction tool<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This enthusiasm for open standards is also encapsulated by MSC and ECCC taking an active role in the OGC Standards development process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe co-chair the OGC API \u2013 Records SWG<\/a> and participate in the OGC API \u2013 Environmental Data Retrieval<\/a> and OGC API \u2013 Coverages SWG<\/a>s to lead and contribute to the development of these standards with the goal of lowering the barrier to weather, climate, and water data for Canadians and the world,\u201d said Tom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have also contributed to various open source software implementations, which have helped with testing and advancing the standards. For example, pygeoapi<\/a> is an OGC API Reference Implementation and already implements six of the OGC APIs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSC\u2019s use of OGC APIs isn\u2019t just about their ease of implementation, easy interoperability with other business systems, or the new applications that they\u2019ve allowed. It\u2019s also about setting an example for others to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs an early adopter of OGC API standards, we also hope to help influence adoption of these standards as part of our involvement in international weather\/climate\/water activities with the World Meteorological Organization<\/a>,\u201d said Tom. \u201cOver a decade ago, the WMO and OGC signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which was a key strategic step that resulted in increased collaboration and streamlined standards development, widening the reach of WMO data exchange. The OGC API efforts are a great example of these efforts in action as exemplified in the OGC API \u2013 Environmental Data Retrieval Standard as well as helping shape the architecture of the next generation WMO Information System (WIS 2.0)<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n To learn more about OGC APIs visit\u00a0ogcapi.org<\/a>. To contribute to and help shape the development and evolution of OGC APIs, consider\u00a0becoming an OGC Member today<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n One of Canada’s oldest government institutions, MSC, is also one to keep up with the times by using the latest technologies in its quest to help Canadians make informed decisions about their health and safety and economic prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[170,223,199,180,236,237,238,174,239],"class_list":["post-17168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-article","tag-climate","tag-nrcan","tag-ogc-api-coverages","tag-ogc-api-maps","tag-ogc-api-records","tag-ogc-api-styles","tag-ogc-api-tiles","tag-ogc-apis","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/OGCAPI_MSC_Blog_pic1_weatherCAN.png\")
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