Big data and services at

the Bureau of Meteorology

Elizabeth McDonald - Geofabric Project Manager

Introduction

Outline

1. Climate data

2. Climate information

3. Water data

4. Water information

5. Service delivery through the

National Environmental Information Infrastructure (NEII)

1. Climate data

RTDB ADAM

Climate Data Online

Weather profile

Weather maps

Climate Data Online

2. Climate InformationAustralian Temperature Record

ACORN-SAT

Climate Observations Reference Network Annual Mean Temperature from 1910

Number of record high and record low

minimum daily temperatures 1910 - 2011

Climate InformationEl Nino Southern Oscillation

NINO3.4 SST Index Model Forecast – POAMA monthly mean NINO3.4

Southern Oscillation IndexSea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly - November 2012

Climate InformationSeasonal Outlooks

Rainfall Temperature

Climate InformationAgricultural services

Rainfall outlook scenario

Chance of at least 150 mm

National Radar Image

3. Water data

IngestDB MaintDB

Reports

Dashboards

iPhone App

4. Water Information

Water InformationSeasonal Stream Flow Forecasting

Water InformationAustralian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric

(Geofabric)

Geofabric Product Suite

Waterbodies

Water CatchmentsMonitoring Points

Rivers and Streams

Geofabric Water Features

Node-Link Topology

Water InformationLinking Water Features to measurements

Waterbody Storage Level

Monitoring Point Streamflow Forecast

Water Reporting

Stream CatchmentContracted CatchmentRiver Region

Drainage Division

5. National Environmental

Information Infrastructure (NEII)

• Includes

– A catalogue

– Sites register

– Information services

– Environmental features

– Web map explorer

– Vocabulary service

– Persistent identifier service

Open Government dataSharing our Data, Information and Services

• Declaration of Open Government, Gov 2.0 Taskforce,

data.gov.au

• Following similar government transparency initiatives

worldwide

– data.gov (US), data.gov.uk (UK)

• Use of Creative Commons licensing –

in particular CC-BY

NEII Catalogue

Architecture Web based search interface

NEII Monitoring Sites Register

NEII Information Services

Architecture

Source: Spatial Information Services Stack Conceptual

Architecture – R. Woodcock, R. Fraser and S.Cox CSIRO

Reference implementation

NEIIEnvironmental Features

Geofabric Web Services

Get Capabilities

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/ows

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/ahgf_gwc/ows

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/ahgf_hrc/ows

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/ahgf_hrr/ows

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/ahgf_shcarto/ows

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/ahgf_shn/ows

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/gwc/service/tms/1.0.0

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/gwc/service/wms

• http://geofabric.bom.gov.au/simplefeatures/gwc/service/wmts

Geofabric Services in Google Earth

NEII Principles

– Common information models to enable standardised information

exchange e.g. WDTF

– Open source standards such as WMS and WFS

– An SDI pattern:

• Dataset/service registry

• Common services (discover/view/download/process)

• Agreed (meta)data models/encoding formats)

– Federation

• The ‘search engine’ model

• Harvesting metadata

• Enables multiple points of discovery i.e. with ANDS, ASDD,

data.gov.au, B

Thank youB