OWS-4 Geo Decision Support (GeoDSS)

Geo-Decision Support Services (GeoDSS) provide interoperable access to distributed geospatial web services to aid decision makers in forming, analyzing, and selecting alternatives. GeoDSS includes workflow management to produce context-specific results from information and knowledge from multiple communities. The GeoDSS subtask will extend the Decision Support and the Information Interoperability work done in OWS-3 to include multilingual interoperability and compressed GML data. Enhanced decision support using information provided from an increasingly wide variety of services places more demands on the ability of the user client software. The GeoDSS thread will develop and demonstrate client programs that will integrate many services, provide stand-alone relatively light-weight open-source GML visualization and 3D CAD visualization. Each of these clients offers an opportunity to exploit the wide variety of data for decision support. GeoDSS will also continue to explore extensions/enhancements to the underlying OGC services to address a greater extent of emergency response scenarios.