WHAT IS NEW?

MPGC 1.0 is released at the end of January, 2005.

WHAT IS MPGC?

MPGC provides an interoperable way of accessing geospatial Web services, especially those from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), for integrating and analyzing distributed heterogeneous Earth science data. MPGC is in conformity with the OGC Catalog Service for Web (CSW) specification to play a “directory” role that permits the registry, discovery and access of geospatial information resources that are distributed on the Internet. By implementing the latest protocols of the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS), MPGC provides a single point of entry for access to OGC-compliant data services around the world, to request any subsets of multi-dimensional and multi-temporal geospatial data for a specific geographic region. MPGC also can access tool-like Web services, such as the Web Image Classification Service (WICS) and the Web Coordinate Transformation Service (WCTS), to produce value-added data products. Moreover, it also can 1) reformat the returning dataset in a data format specified by the user; 2) provide robust visualization and analytical tools for geospatial data; and 3) support multiple data formats: HDF, GeoTiff, GML, JPG, PNG, and GIF.