Time: 17:30

Topic: Environment & Climate Change Canada’s Weather and Climate Open Data Access, with OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) APIs

Speaker: Alexandre Leroux, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Service of Canada

Abstract: The MSC GeoMet platform provides public access to the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) data via interoperable web services and application programming interfaces (API). Through open standards, users can freely and quickly access thousands of real-time and archived weather, climate and water datasets and products and integrate them in their domain-specific applications and decision support systems. Users can build mobile apps, create interactive web maps, and display and animate MSC data in desktop software. MSC GeoMet also enables on demand raw data clipping and reprojection, on demand format conversion and custom visualization.

Bio: Alex works at the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)’s Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC). He is an engineer specialized in geospatial technologies and holds a M.Sc. in hyperspectral remote sensing. He joined ECCC in 2004 after a few years in the private sector. As a lead for the Geospatial and Open Data Systems (GODS) team, his contributions focus on data management and data exploitation platforms, such as the popular mission critical 24/7 MSC GeoMet Open Data API platform and the World Meteorological Organization Information System (WMO WIS2). Recent projects also include a modern data exploitation platform for all of MSC and AI for data discovery and exploitation.