Future WMO Information System (FWIS) Hiroyuki Ichijo (Japan Meteorological Agency) WMO/WSIS Session on Reducing Natural Disaster Risk through Technical.

Future WMO Information System (FWIS)Hiroyuki Ichijo (Japan Meteorological Agency)

WMO/WSIS Session on Reducing Natural Disaster Riskthrough Technical Opportunities of Information Society-Applications of ICT in Natural Disaster Risk Reduction

(Kobe, Japan, 21 January 2004)

Argo Maritime Safety Pollution response

IntroductionIntroductionThere are various WMO programmes. Each programme

has traditionally worked independently with each information system.

Furthermore evolving technology accelerated the needs.

However the needs of a coordinated common system rapidly expanded because of demerits of system multiplicity and emerging new crosscutting programmes.

On the background, the innovative FWIS project was born in 1999.

1. Vision1. 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.

Implementation Pilot Projects Concept

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.

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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 exchangeSmooth 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

GISC

GISC

GISC

Portal sitefor

request/ request

GISCPortal sitefor

request/ request

Synchronization of all information

GISC: Global Information System Center

with Portal site for request/reply

DCPC: Data Collection or Product Center

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NC

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NC

NCNC

NC

NC

NC

NCNC

NC

NC: National Center

Core network

DCPC

DCPCDCPC

DCPC

DCPC

data collection Routinedissemination

Ad hocrequest/replyAuthorized

userAuthorized user

National authority

National authority

5. Promising technologies

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.

Closed

IP networkby a provider

Core Router

Core RouterCore Router

VPNgroup

VPNgroupIPdata Labe

lIPdata Labe

lIPdata IPdata

IP-VPN with MPLS : Virtual Private Network (VPN) over a managed network by a single

provider

Internet VPN : Virtual Private Network (VPN) over the Internet

Internet VPN provides cost-effective connectivity with moderate security.

Internet

Internet VPN (IPsec)

Access with authentication

Satellite-based telecommunicationsVSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal)DVB (Digital Video Broadcast)DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast)

One Way VSAT system is used forbroadcast/multicast.

Two Way VSAT system is used forcombination broadcast/multicast andpeer-to-peer communications.

Data GRID : uniform and integrated access to heterogeneous and distributed information sources

Data GRID provides secure access to distributed information sources.

Information SourceInformation Source

Grid Server- authorisation- metadata service- data and resource management- information services

Grid Server- authorisation- metadata service- data and resource management- information services

Metadata database

Climate database

Database Job Runner andDatabase Information Provider

Database Job Runner andDatabase Information Provider

Database WrapperDatabase Wrapper

Grid Client- authentication- data requests

Grid Client- authentication- data requests

Information SourceInformation Source

Grid Server- authorisation- metadata service- data and resource management- information services

Grid Server- authorisation- metadata service- data and resource management- information services

Metadata database

Climate database

Database Job Runner andDatabase Information Provider

Database Job Runner andDatabase Information Provider

Database WrapperDatabase Wrapper

Information SourceInformation Source

Grid Server- authorisation- metadata service- data and resource management- information services

Grid Server- authorisation- metadata service- data and resource management- information services

Metadata database

database

Database Job Runner andDatabase Information Provider

Database Job Runner andDatabase Information Provider

Database WrapperDatabase Wrapper

Portal site

6. Examples of pilot projects

NWP productsSatellite data

UpdatedApplication software

Prototype application

NC (National Centre)

Gathering data from different data sources

Internet

Software updating

Application portal

Data portal

Satellite dataReference information

Data sources

VPN

XML metadata

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BUFR

<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>

Reporting observational data

NC (National Centre)

RJTD

01 01 0100

36010

999912

09

1002

Office code

Metadata creationConversion to BUFR

Secure connection(VPN or HTTPS)

Internet

Input data on Web

SNJP70 RJTD 010100SYNOP36010KT 9999 12/09 1002=

Dew_temp

Date/Time

WIND_degWIND_sp

View

Temp

Pressure

Information sources

Portal Site

Data GRIDVPN

Information source

Request/Replywith authentication

MatadataCatalogue

Internet

Request/reply with Data GRID

technologies

7. Benefits of FWIS Information

managementInformation

exchange/accessSecurity Cost aspect

For WMO programmes

• Expanding of provision and use of potential information• Collaboration between programmes

• Meeting requirements on timeliness (time-critical), reliability, and traffic volume.

• Coordinated full security under FWIS security policy

• Great cost benefit• Reducing development cost and human resources

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

• Coordinated full security under FWIS and/or national security policies

• Further cost-effective operation with saving recurrent costs• Reducing development cost and human resources

For authorized users (e.g. academic and research communities)

• Improvement of information discovery and availability• Easy handling of standardized information

• Flexibility in communication options• Simple access procedures

• Appropriate security mechanism under security policies of FWIS and/or each information source

• Availability of convenient services for minimum costs