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Pathways Forward for ACE

Joe Casas, ACE Technical and Project ManagerSteve Spehn, ACE Operational ManagerGina Wade, ACE Project ScientistRob Cermak, ARSC Life Sciences Informatics SupportJohn Walsh, IARC Chief ScientistJohn Coffey, NOAA UAS Program OfficeCathy Geiger, UD Sea Ice Geophysicist

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Pathways Forward for ACE

• ACE System• New and Enhanced Capabilities• Research Applications• Education Opportunities

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ACE System - Today

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ACE System - Future

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New and Enhanced Capabilities (1 of 2)

• Chat– ACE Groups have group specific chat rooms– Users may create additional chat rooms in each group

• Enhanced data security• Data router capability– Provides caching of data capabilities– Re-projects data layers as necessary for ACE

• Improved WMS support– GetCapabilities now pulls in all layers – prior one layer at a

time– Legend support– WMS Query to view data values (if provider supports)

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New and Enhanced Capabilities (2 of 2)

• Projection of plain imagery on maps– Control points used to drape image on ACE maps

• Support for YouTube videos• Future

– Direct user creation on ACE of annotations, place marks, polygons, polylines

– Support for future OGC standards (e.g. WMST)– Consolidated user-selectable map projections– Catalog with user definable categories– Styling of WMS (color ramping on raster images)– Improved time and multi-dimensional support– Additional data type support, GRIB, HDF, Shapefile, GPX etc.– Data subset and export– Data charting (2D, cross-sectional analysis)