Welcome to WIPECENTRAL !

WIPECENTRAL is ACT's gateway to large volumes of historical or dynamical geo-spatial data located at our facility or over a distributed number of servers in the WWW.  

WIPECENTRAL relies in the use of ACT's WWW Image Processing Environment (WIPE).   The WIPE architecture  is a proven architecture used in support of DOD, NOAA, NASA,  NATO, ....  

Key highlights of the architecture are:

• Flexible WEB based GIS and Image Processing Functionality

• Facilitates Efficient Use of Available Bandwidth

• Automatic Assimilation and Processing of Geo-Spatial Data

• Rapid/Interactive Discovery, Fusion, and Distribution of Data

• Easy Incorporation of new data formats for ingestion and delivery

• Extensible via user provided algorithms and applications

• Configurable from a single machine to a cluster of machines

• Simple Client Requirement ==> standard web browser!

For additional information download WIPE's  overview document.

First time users:

1. To use WIPE applet you need to:
        + Install WIPE's JAVA Applet support files. (swing JAVA classes)
                             OR
        +Download the SUN JAVA Runtime Environment

2. Connect to a public access WIPE server, e.g. 
   WIPE server at NOAA's NCDDC

Partial List of Active WIPE Servers 
[access restrictions may apply]

• Description: This server is located at the NOAA's National Coastal Data Development Center.  It is being used to serve as a front-end to commercial and government coastal data.    

• Connect to

  • NCDDC WIPE server. - public access

• Sample Products

  • ...

• Description: The METOC Flight Planning Tool (MFPT) is a web based application which works in conjunction with the SPAWAR METCAST server.  It provides sensor fusion of many data sources, e.g. GOES-IR, Model Runs (COAMPS, NOGAPS, Flight Level, ...), DTED, DBDB, ...   The MFPT was demonstrated at the CINC's 2000 Technology Conference and the Joint Warfighter Interoperability Demonstration (JWID 2000)

• METOC Products:

  • Animated  Cloud Movie - Last 24 hours (GMT) of GOES-IR  (Updated every 30 minutes.) 

  • Interactive Visualization  of weather conditions over an arbitrary Flight Path.  (Includes 48 hour forecast and previous 48 hours.)  

• Documents:  Power Point Brief Presentation (3Mbytes)

• Description: The NOAA WIPE is being used to support the Coast Watch - Alaska SAR Demo.  These WIPE servers collect and server close to real time data from various space-based and ground-based sensors in addition to modeled wind vector data.   This is done in support of the  .  

• Connect to

  • Operational NOAA server  

• Sample Products

  • NESDIS/ORA Alaska SAR Demonstration - Mar 8, 1999

  • NESDIS/ORA Alaska SAR Demonstration - Mar 10, 1999

  • Bering Sea SAR imagery of  ice edge through clouds- Mar 15-16, 2000

  • Alaskan SAR/IR with different overlays - Mar 22,2000

  •  Poster product describing the Alaska SAR Demo

Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO)

• Description: This server is used by the Naval Oceanographic Office to host acoustic imagery and related data bases.

• Connect to

  • The Operational NAVO server is in a classified network.

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) 

• Description: This is part of the Navy HyperSpectral Image Tool (NHIT) being developed in collaboration with NRL's Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST). NHIT is built as a browser on top of WIPE.

• Connect to

  • The NHIT demonstration web page

Applied Coherent Technology Corporation (ACT)

• Description: All testing and development work for WIPE servers, including customization for individual clients, are done at the ACT main office in Herndon, VA.

• Connect to

  • WIPE Test Server at ACT

  • Developmental NATO Server at ACT

  • Developmental NOAA Server at ACT

  • Developmental NAVO Server at ACT

  • Developmental SPAWAR Server at ACT - also hosting SPAWAR's-related datasets (acting as an Imaging Segment Interface to TEDS)

  • Developmental NRL/NEMO Server - serving/processing Hyperspectral data

• Sample Products

  • NOAA GOES Animation - Animation of past 24 hours (GMT) of GOES-IR satellite imagery over the east coast of North America.