Presentation by Alain Frémaux of Telvent on Esri European User Conference 2011.

1. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Weather Solutions:
Integrating Weather Content
Services Into Your GIS
Alain Frémaux
ESRI European User Conference
Madrid – October 2011

2. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Agenda
Who is Telvent?
What is the value of weather data?
Why is weather data challenging?
Demonstrate content and
application examples

3. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Telvent Environment
Leading Provider of Business Weather Solutions
Largest commercial weather company in USA, Representative Customers
gone global in past 3 years
Independently rated “most accurate” weather
forecasts
Advanced weather decision support systems
with delivery via online, mobile, text/email
alert, web services & GIS
French-
Now part of Schneider Electric, French-based
20 billion Euro energy company
Energy Transportation Aviation
Load Forecasting and Pavement Aviation Forecasting
services for Forecasting and for commercial,
electric/gas utilities alerting services for corporate, and
and renewables state and local specialized flight
Transmission and government operations
Distribution Crew Weather for Helicopter Decision
Management Intelligent Support Systems
Wind Farm Safety Transportation
Systems (e.g. 511)

4. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Weather Impacts Almost Everything
Energy: demand, supply (renewables), outages
Aviation
Transportation
Public and commercial safety
Insurance (floods, lightning, wind damage, etc.)
Defense
Agriculture
Trading & finance

5. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Weather Information Value Chain
Value Decision
Instruments Network
Added Support
& Network Operations
Services Systems
AWS
IP Data QC
AWOS Energy
UDP Forecasting
RWIS Aviation
Wireless Distribution
Climate Transport
Wireline Customize
Air Quality Gov’t
Maintenance Integrate
Radar Agriculture
Operations DSS
Satellite ...
... ...
...
Value increases with integration

6. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Enabling Customer Efficiencies
Weather data has no value until a decision is made from it
The role of a weather information service is to enable decisions that engender
efficiencies and optimization based on the integration of weather and weather
related information
Examples:
Electricity demand forecasts based on weather forecast input
Wind Farm maintenance crew evacuation based on lightning alerts
Roadway treatment recommendations based on weather and pavement forecasts
Professional sports games cancelled based on real-time weather and expert forecasts
Enabling weather based efficiencies at businesses and
governments
Requires a comprehensive solution based on data, display, and analytics
Web-based Mobile GIS/Shapefile 3rd Party Systems Customized Systems

7. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Examples of GIS Weather Data Integration
Electric utility outage management
Wind power operations and maintenance
Helicopter flight tracking systems
Insurance response team planning and claims validation
Intelligent transportation systems – road conditions and traffic
control
Agricultural commodities
trading

8. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Weather is Challenging to Deliver
Obviously geo-spatial, often high resolution
Highly dynamic (5 or 10 minute radar, up to the minute
lightning, etc.)
Temporal: current, past and future (forecast)
Visualization challenges (animation)
All this globally
Many type of data:
Current observations, Radar, satellite, warnings and bulletins,
specialized aviation weather, forecasts, historical and
climatological data, hurricanes/cyclones
Many sources of dynamic data:
National meteorological agencies
WMO (World Meteorological Organization)
Commercial sources
Proprietary methods

9. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Data, Information & Analysis Delivery
Satellite Radar Surface Model Data Lightning Prop. Data
Content Observations Decision Support
Sources
Pvmt
Fcst/MDSS
Alerting
Decision Support Analytics
Internet-based Forecasts
Human
Delivery
Consulting
Web-based Mobile Web Services 3rd Party Systems Customized Systems
Delivery Technologies

10. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Telvent GIS Weather
We’ve been delivering GIS weather data for over
10 years
Use GIS weather data in our own sophisticated
weather applications, including alerting
Highest-quality weather data, for integration
GIS data for mapping and analysis
Both SOAP and REST XML services for forecasts
and observations
Global in coverage

11. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Available Global Content Includes…
Weather radar 0-2 day local forecast
Europe conditions
Canada 0-9 day local forecast
Australia conditions
US Forecast thunderstorm
Global satellite coverage
Current observed surface Historical weather
conditions Yesterday’s observed surface
Temperature conditions
Precipitation Yesterday’s observed
Wind speed precipitation totals
Direction Tropical Storm (Hurricane)
Humidity Package – current and
Pressure forecast
Weather condition

12. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
Telvent Example of GIS Weather
Application (“WeatherSentry”)
Goal is to make all content available via GIS web services as well

13. Smart Information for a Sustainable World
ESRI France Example Using Telvent’s Content

14. Questions?
Thank you