Water data transfer format (WDTF): Guiding principles, technical challenges and the future

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4381-4387

  Walker, G ^a   Taylor, P ^a   Cox, S ^a   Sheahan, P ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Australian Bureau of Meteorology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bureau of Meteorology; OGC; Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF); WaterML; XML

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GROUNDWATER; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; METEOROLOGY; MODELING LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; WATER QUALITY; XML;

BUREAU OF METEOROLOGIES; EXTENSIBLE MARK-UP LANGUAGE (XML); GEOGRAPHY MARK-UP LANGUAGES; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM; WATER DATA TRANSFER FORMATS (WDTF); WATER INFORMATION SYSTEM;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

EID: 85086221617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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