Interoperability Middleware between Geoscience and Geospatial Catalog Protocols

OGC protocols have been widely accepted by the geospatial/land science communities, We call this community geospatial community. Others communities such as atmosphere, ocean, and modeling science adopt the other set of data access protocols. We name these protocols as geoscience protocols. Although these two protocols have been used wildly, but unfortunately, there is no interoperability between them. For bridging this cross-protocol and cross-community gap, CSISS have developed a catalog middleware to mediate client/server interactions between OGC catalog clients and THREDDS servers. A prototype system has been implemented to demonstrate the concept and approach.