SCI-WMS

Python Web Mapping Service (WMS) for visualizing geospatial data

Introduction

• SCI-WMS is an open-source Python implementation of the (Web Mapping Service) API for oceanographic, atmospheric, climate and weather data.
• Achieves real-time, on-demand visualization of externally hosted CF-compliant data.
• Can visualize structured or unstructured grids adhering to CF and/or CF-UGRID conventions.
• Abstracts each dataset into two objects: a topology and corresponding model data.
• Topologies are stored locally for quick and efficient spatial queries.
• Model data is hosted externally, subsetted data is downloaded and rendered per request.
• Supports arbitrary cartographic projections.

Architecture Overview (COMT deployment)

• Grid topologies are cached using R-Tree structures for spatial access methods
• Web-based WMS client demo displaying all datasets and available WMS layers
• Secure administrator interface for dataset management