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IONIC and Raytheon Provide OpenGIS ® Web Coverage Service
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Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has signed an agreement with IONIC (www.ionicenterprise.com) under its NASA Synergy IV contract to extend the IONIC OpenGIS Web Coverage Service to support HDF-EOS. As a world leader in interoperable Web mapping, and distributed geo-processing, IONIC will enable Raytheon to expose NASA’s EOS-DIS ‘Data Pools’ for use by the global OpenGIS network.
Under the requirements of the contract, IONIC will interface with the NASA developed HEG Tool Kit, and extend IONIC’s GeoTIFF WCS engine to support a variety of HDF-based data formats within NASA data pools.
IONIC currently plans the release of its OpenGIS WCS engine in the 3.1 release of its RedSpider Web (RSW3.1) product – IONIC’s out-of-the-box, easily-deployable, configurable portfolio of secure OpenGIS conformant spatial web services. In total RedSpider Web will then support WMS-SLD, WFS-T, WTS and WCS interfaces.
For more information on how IONIC technology can redefine how you do business, go to www.ionicenterprise.com.
About IONIC
IONIC is the world leader in interoperable location-based services, Web-mapping, distributed geo-processing and g-commerce. IONIC is an active member of OGC and ISO TC211, with the biggest team of specialists dedicated to interoperable products in the world, and extensive expertise in the development of Java components for innovative, flexible and interoperable distributed applications. IONIC is committed to providing fully interoperable, enterprise-class products for the publishing, discovery, access, integration, and application of spatial data in support of core enterprise business functions.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2002 sales of $16.8 billion, is an industry leader in defense, government and commercial electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon employs more than 76,000 people worldwide.
About the Web Coverage Service (WCS)
The OpenGIS Web Coverage Service supports the networked interchange of geospatial data as "coverages" containing values or properties of geographic locations. Unlike the Web Map Service, which returns static maps (server-rendered as pictures), the Web Coverage Service provides access to intact (unrendered) geospatial information, as needed for client-side rendering, multi-valued coverages, and input into scientific models and other clients beyond simple viewers.
The Web Coverage Service consists of three operations: GetCapabilities returns a description of the service with elements to describe multidimensional data collections from which a coverage may be requested; GetCoverage returns values or properties of geographic locations, bundled in a well-known coverage format; DescribeCoverageType returns a description of the structure of the coverages which the WCS returns.
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