Project Manager Assessment

• The status of the project is nominal.

Key Problem List

• None

Deliverables Table

• None

WP1000 Project Management

Activities performed

• WP1100: Overall Project Coordination (EOX)
  • all Subcontracts signed and received
• WP1300: Subcontractor Management
  • Liaison with wrt invoicing procedure
• WP1600: Project Reporting (EOX)
  • Management Progress report 09/2009 Wiki
  • Management Progress report 10/2009 Wiki

Outcome and results

• Technical & Organisational Telecon at 2009-10-20
• Consortium agreed on 3-week interval

Problems and concerns

• None

Plans for next period

• Telecon at 2009-11-10

WP2000 EO Requirements for ODA

Activities performed

• WP2100: EO Data and Service Characteristics (EOX)
  • Experienced quite some problems with EOLI-SA and the login as registered user
  • Problems could finally be solved on 2009-10-30
  • Downloaded first ENVISAT Demo-Dataset
• WP2200: EO Metadata Requirements (Spot)
  • Started with analysis of relevant metadatasets
• WP2300: GSC-DA, DAIL, HMA-E Interface Requirements (EOX)
  • Collected relevant documents
  • Analysis of GSC-DA nearly finished
• WP2400: SSE Client Requirements (GIM)
  • Analysis of potential improvements to WebMapViewer Coverage Download window
• WP2500: GEOSS & INSPIRE Standards (EOX)
  • Collected relevant documents
• WP2600: Service Industry Needs (Spot)
  • Start with analyses of Requirements
• WP2700: Advanced Concepts (WCPS, P2P,Tilinng,...) (JUB)
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Outcome and results

• No documents so far

Problems and concerns

• No major problems, access with EOLI-SA cause slight delay

Plans for next period

• Continue with analysis of requirements
• Create first draft of RB-Documents

WP3000 Towards OpenGIS Standardization

Activities performed

• WP3100: WCS 2.0 SWG Liaison (JUB)
  • Regular active participation in weekly OGC WCS telecons, including several times facilitation of telecon;
  • Input to mailing list discussions aiming at clarification of concepts and advancing consensus;
  • Drafting of WCS 2.0 documents for discussion by SWG:
    • GML 3.2.1 Application Schema for WCS (including XML Schema) (OGC 09-146)
    • WCS 2.0 Core (including XML Schema) (OGC 09-110)
    • WCS 2.0 Extension: KVP protocol (OGC 09-147)
• WP3200: WCS 2.0 SWG Liaison (Spot)
  • Following mailing List discussions
• WP3300: WCS 2.0 SWG Liaison (EOX)
  • Participation in regular WCS telecon
  • Stephan Meissl become Group member at WCS.SWG, Christian Schiller acts as Proxy
  • Following mailing List discussions
  • Analysis of WCS 2.0 Core draft (OGC 09-110)
  • Analysis of WCS extension - KVP Protocol (OGC 09-147)
• WP3400: WCS 2.0 SWG Liaison (GIM)
  • Started analysis of WCS 2.0 Core draft (OGC 09-110)
• WP3500: OGC Interoperability Program (JUB)
  • none
• WP3600: EO Application Profile Development (JUB)
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• WP3700: Contribution to EO Application Profile & Conformance Testing (EOX)
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• WP3800: OGC Conformance Test Approach & Tools (JUB)
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• WP3900: OGC Conformance Testing & Reporting (JUB)
  • .

Outcome and results

• Drafted WCS 2.0 documents for discussion by WCS.SWG:
  • GML 3.2.1 Application Schema for WCS (including XML Schema) (OGC 09-146)
  • WCS 2.0 Core (including XML Schema) (OGC 09-110)
  • WCS 2.0 Extension: KVP protocol (OGC 09-147)

Problems and concerns

• Some diverging discussion within the WCS.SWG which hinders progress (specifications must be completed before Nov 09)

Plans for next period

• Pushing WCS 2.0 draft documents (OGC 09-110, 09-146, 09-147) further, attempting to make discussions more productive
• evaluate draft specifications in-house through proofreading and XML schema validation

WP4000 Software Implementation

Activities performed

• WP4100: WCS Server extension implementation (EOX)
  • Stephan Meissl participated at FOSS4G contacts with many developers of the OpenSource Geo-Community gathered valuable information about performance differences between GeoServer and MapServer
• WP4200: SSE Client Extension Implementation (GIM)
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• WP4300: Acceptance Test Planning (EOX)
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• WP4400: Transfer, Acceptance Testing & Reporting (ECSS) (EOX)
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• WP4500: WCS Server Warranty (EOX)
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• WP4600: SSE Client Warranty (GIM)
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• WP4700: Advanced Concepts - Implementations (JUB)
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Outcome and results

• None

Problems and concerns

• None

Plans for next period

• None

WP5000 Software Open Use & Community Support

Activities performed

• Stephan Meissl participated at FOSS4G, contacts with many developers of the OpenSource Geo-Community

Outcome and results

• None

Problems and concerns

• None

Plans for next period

• None