Global Drought Monitoring Service through the GEOSS Architecture ...

Architectural Implementation Pilot, Phase 3 Version: 2.0
Global Drought Monitoring and European Drought
Observatory-Water SBA Engineering Report
Date: 11/Feb/2011
11. EuroGEOSS Water Societal Benefit Area Keywords
Biogeochemistry
Climate prediction
Drought prediction
Ecosystem
Fisheries and habitat
Flood prediction
Human Health
Impacts of Humans
Land use planning
Management
Production of Food
Resource management
Telecommunications-navigation
Water Cycle
Weather prediction
12. Acknowledgments
The role of the USA National Integrated Drought Information System and the USA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is greatly appreciated in
extending manpower and data and services hub capacity towards hosting the Global
Drought Monitor Portal. The manpower of the European Drought Observatory staff in
setting up OGC Web Mapping Service-enabled Map Servers on the Princeton server and
establishment of interoperability with the NIDIS server is also gratefully acknowledged.
The role of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in helping
support the GEO Water Community of Practice is acknowledged and appreciated. Such
support was crucial in establishing the initial impetuous for setting up the global drought
monitor through GEO.
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