Transcript Future WMO Information System (FWIS) Hiroyuki Ichijo (Japan Meteorological Agency) WMO/WSIS Session on Reducing Natural Disaster Risk through Technical Opportunities of Information Society -Applications.

Future WMO Information System (FWIS)
Hiroyuki Ichijo (Japan Meteorological Agency)
WMO/WSIS Session on Reducing Natural Disaster Risk
through Technical Opportunities of Information Society
-Applications of ICT in Natural Disaster Risk Reduction
(Kobe, Japan, 21 January 2004)
Introduction
There are various WMO programmes. Each programme has
traditionally worked independently with each information system.
Argo
Maritime Safety
Pollution response
However the needs of a coordinated common system rapidly
expanded because of demerits of system multiplicity and
emerging new crosscutting programmes.
Furthermore evolving technology accelerated the needs.
On the background, the innovative FWIS project was born in 1999.
1. Vision
The Future WMO Information System (FWIS) will be a single
coordinated global infrastructure for collecting and sharing
information to support all WMO and related international
programmes.
The FWIS will meet information exchange requirements of all
WMO programmes without information incompatibilities,
inefficiencies, duplication of effort, limitation in sharing valuable
information and higher overall costs.
The FWIS will provide a flexible and extensible structure that
allows National Meteorological or Hydrological Services (NMHSs)
to enhance their capabilities as their national and international
responsibilities grow.
2. Roadmap
With the latest breakthroughs in Information Communication
Technology (ICT), the FWIS concept has been developed. The
concept provides a common roadmap to guide the orderly
evolution of the information system functions performed by
current WMO Programmes into an integrated system.
Currently various pilot projects on promising technologies with
prototype evaluation are under progress towards early
implementation.
Renaming from “FWIS” to “ WIS (WMO Information System)”
is expected.
FWIS
WIS
Implementation
Pilot Projects
Concept
3. Main challenges
Interoperability of information systems
 Providing online catalogue and metadata of all information
 Standardization/Harmonization of information formats
 Providing functions to discover and share information in
distributed information sources
 Supporting real-time, quasi real-time and non-real-time
information exchange
Smooth and coordinated transition
 Building upon the most successful components of existing WMO
systems
Scalable and sustainable system
 Supporting various standard communication protocols and links
 Using international industry standards and off-the-shelf
hardware and software systems
4. FWIS structure and functions
Synchronization of all
information
GISC: Global Information System Center
GISC
with Portal site for request/reply
GISC
Core network
Portal site
for request/
request
GISC
GISC
Portal site
for request/
request
DCPC
DCPC
DCPC
DCPC
DCPC: Data Collection or Product Center
NC
NC
DCPC
NC
NC
NC
NC: National Center
NC
NC
National
authority
NC
NC
NC
NC
NC
data collection
NC
Authorized
Authorized user
user
NC
NC
National
authority
NC
Ad hoc
request/reply
Routine
dissemination
5. Promising technologies
IP-VPN with MPLS : Virtual Private Network (VPN)
over a managed network by a single provider
data
IP
data
IP Label
data
IP Label
data
IP
VPN
group
Core Router
VPN
group
Closed
IP network
by a provider
Core Router
Core Router
IP-VPN with MPLS provides any to any connectivity within a
VPN group, a guaranteed quality of service, reliability, scalability
of capacity and full security.
Internet VPN : Virtual Private Network (VPN) over the Internet
Access with
authentication
Internet
Internet VPN (IPsec)
Internet VPN provides cost-effective connectivity
with moderate security.
Satellite-based telecommunications
VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal)
DVB (Digital Video Broadcast)
DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast)
One Way VSAT system is used for
broadcast/multicast.
Two Way VSAT system is used for
combination broadcast/multicast and
peer-to-peer communications.
Data GRID : uniform and integrated access to heterogeneous and
distributed information sources
Information Source
Information Source
Grid
Server
Information
Source
- authorisation
Grid Server
- metadata
service
- authorisation
- data
and
resource
management
Grid
Server
- metadataservices
service
- information
- data- authorisation
and resource management
- information
services
- metadata
service
- data and resource management
- information services
Database Job Runner and
Database Information Provider
Database Job Runner and
Database Information Provider
Database Job Runner and
Database Information Provider
Portal site
Database Wrapper
Database Wrapper
Metadata database
Database Wrapper
Metadata database
Metadata
database
Climate database
Climate database
database
Grid Client
- authentication
- data requests
Data GRID provides secure access to distributed information
sources.
6. Examples of pilot projects
Software updating
Application portal
Data portal
Updated
Application
software
VPN
NWP products
Satellite data
Internet
NC
(National Centre)
Gathering data from
different data sources
Prototype application
NC
(National Centre)
Office code
Data sources
Input data on Web
Satellite data
Reference information
Secure connection
(VPN or HTTPS)
Internet
Reporting
observational data
RJTD
Date/Time
01
WIND_deg
WIND_sp
360
10
View
Temp
Dew_temp
9999
12
09
Pressure
1002
01
0100
SNJP70 RJTD 010100
SYNOP
36010KT 9999 12/09 1002=
<xml>
<xmlusers>country name</xmlusers>
<code>47997</code>
<date>20050101</date>
<time>0100</time>
<winddeg>360</winddeg>
<windspeed>10</windspeed>
<view>9999</view>
<temp>12</temp>
<dew_point>09</dew_point>
<pressure>1002</pressure>
</xml>
Metadata creation
Conversion to BUFR
XML metadata
BUFR
Internet
Request/Reply
with authentication
Request/reply
with Data GRID
technologies
Information
source
2132330E1A10FE00112A0B0AA
VPN
Data GRID
Information
sources
Portal Site
Catalogue
Matadata
7. Benefits of FWIS
Information
management
Information
exchange/access
• Expanding of
provision and use of
potential information
• Collaboration
between programmes
• Meeting requirements
on timeliness (timecritical), reliability, and
traffic volume.
For NMHSs
(and national
disaster
prevention
authorities
linked with
NMHSs)
• Improvement of
information discovery
and availability
• Easy handling of
standardized
information
• Strengthening
mission-critical
exchange (e.g. WWW
operation. and
distribution of
emergency information)
• Consolidation of
exchange procedures
For authorized
users (e.g.
academic and
research
communities)
• Improvement of
information discovery
and availability
• Easy handling of
standardized
information
For WMO
programmes
• Flexibility in
communication options
• Simple access
procedures
Security
• Coordinated full
security under
FWIS security
policy
• Coordinated full
security under
FWIS and/or
national security
policies
• Appropriate
security
mechanism under
security policies of
FWIS and/or each
information source
Cost aspect
• Great cost
benefit
• Reducing
development cost
and human
resources
• Further costeffective operation
with saving
recurrent costs
• Reducing
development cost
and human
resources
• Availability of
convenient
services for
minimum costs