WIPE™ - WWW Information Processing Environment

WIPE™ is a network-centric geospatial data processing, management and analysis server for Earth observing sensors. WIPE™ supports multiple user interface options including thin clients such as HTML and JAVA, and thick clients such as ACT-REACT™. Custom applications can link to WIPE™ via multiple protocols and APIs.

WIPE™ interface resources and samples:

• WIPE's Native XML Schema , providing a very rich request syntax
  • Example page with HTTP/XML interface
• OGC2WIPE allows WIPE™ to serve data as compliant OGC/WCS server (via ogc2wipe)
  • Example URL: GetCapabilities for WIPE™/WCS test server,
  • Example URL: DescribeCoverage for Global Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED)
  • Example URL: GetCoverage for DTED data using PNG or GeoTiff or ...
• KML2WIPE allows WIPE™ to serve static/dynamic data to Google Earth Clients
  • Example KML file that access most recent cloud imagery (GOES-EAST-IR) + ...
    note: this example requires that Google Earth is pre-installed
• Graphical User Interfaces
  • HTML/JavaScript Interface - fast map-tiling access using OpenLayers and AJAX (see Lunar Browser example)
  • HTML Interface - uses customizable HTML forms
  • WIPE's JAVA Applet - provides extensive data interactivity over the network
  • ACT-REACT™ providing client application interactive access to data from local file system or WIPE™
    Server or OGC/WCS server