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        "descriptionInformation": {
            "descriptionIdentification": {
                "title": "NowCastSAT EU WFS",
                "edition": "1.0",
                "referenceDate": "2023-07-14"
            },
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                {
                    "name": "AIRM",
                    "description": "<p>ATM Information Reference Model</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "AMQP",
                    "description": "<p>Advanced Queueing Message Protocol</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "ATC",
                    "description": "<p>Air Traffic Control</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "ATM",
                    "description": "<p>Air Traffic Management</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "DWD",
                    "description": "<p>Deutscher Wetterdienst</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "HTTP",
                    "description": "<p>Hypertext Transfer Protocol</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "ICAO",
                    "description": "<p>International Civil Aviation Organization</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "IER",
                    "description": "<p>Information Exchange Requirement</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "IR",
                    "description": "<p>Implementation Rules</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "ISRM",
                    "description": "<p>Information Service Reference Model</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "IWXXM",
                    "description": "<p>ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "METAR",
                    "description": "<p>Meteorological Aerodrome Report</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "NWS",
                    "description": "<p>National Weather Service</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "OGC",
                    "description": "<p>Open Geospatial Consortium</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "PCP",
                    "description": "<p>Pilot Common Project</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "REQ",
                    "description": "<p>Requirement</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "WFS",
                    "description": "<p>Web Feature Service</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "WMO",
                    "description": "<p>World Meteorological Organization</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "SIGMET",
                    "description": "<p>significant meteorological phenomena</p>\r\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "TAF",
                    "description": "<p>Terminal Aerodrome Forecast</p>\r\n"
                }
            ]
        },
        "serviceIdentification": {
            "name": "NowCastSAT EU WFS",
            "version": "1.0"
        },
        "serviceAbstract": "<p>NowCastSat (Rapid Scan Service) is an operational product from Deutscher Wetterdienst. The scope of use is aeronautical meteorology. NowCastSat-1.0 provides near real-time detection and forecasts of convective cells over the European region using the highest temporal and spatial resolution available from the satellites operated by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and real-time detection and forecasts of electrical storms over the European region using LINET lightning detection network</p>",
        "serviceProvider": {
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                "REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER"
            ],
            "pointOfContact": [
                {
                    "name": "DWD Aviation Customer Service",
                    "contactInformation": [
                        {
                            "type": "EMAIL",
                            "address": "vl.kundenservice@dwd.de"
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "PHONE",
                            "address": "+49 69 8062 2695"
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "URL",
                            "address": "http://www.dwd.de"
                        }
                    ],
                    "role": "Data Provider"
                }
            ],
            "provider": "DWD",
            "providerDescription": "<p>The Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is responsible for meeting the meteorological requirements arising from all areas of economy and society in Germany.</p><p>Our duties result from the legal mandate to inform and undertake research as laid down in the Deutscher Wetterdienst Act, <a href=\"https://www.dwd.de/SharedDocs/downloads/EN/general/dwd_act.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&amp;v=2\">https://www.dwd.de/SharedDocs/downloads/EN/general/dwd_act.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&amp;v=2</a></p><p>They include:</p><ul type=\"disc\"><li>providing meteorological and climatological services</li><li>providing meteorological information and services to ensure the safety of aviation<br />(The DWD\u2019s Aeronautical Meteorological Service is SES-certified and is part of the system to ensure the global safety of civil aviation and provide it with meteorological information.)</li><li>providing meteorological information and services to ensure the safety of maritime shipping<br />(Based on the UN\u2019s International Maritime Organization\u2019s (IMO) International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), the DWD is part of the system to ensure the global safety of maritime shipping.)</li><li>providing meteorological information and services to ensure the safety of traffic routes and vital infrastructures \u2013 in particular those needed for energy supply and communications systems</li><li>issuing official warnings about weather phenomena</li><li>short and long-term recording, monitoring and evaluation of meteorological processes in the atmosphere, its structure and composition</li><li>registering the meteorological and climatological interaction between the atmosphere and other areas of the environment</li><li>analysing and predicting meteorological and climatological processes as well as analysing and projecting climate change and climate change impacts<br />monitoring the atmosphere for radioactive trace substances and forecasting their transport</li><li>operating the necessary measuring and observation systems</li><li>ensuring the availability, archiving, documentation and release of meteorological and climatological spatial data and services.</li></ul>"
        },
        "serviceCategorisation": {
            "serviceType": "SWIM_CANDIDATE",
            "businessActivityType": [
                "AERODROME_OPERATION",
                "AIRSPACE_ORGANISATION_AND_MANAGEMENT",
                "INFORMATION_MANAGEMENT",
                "SERVICE_DELIVERY_MANAGEMENT"
            ],
            "intendedConsumer": [
                "AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER",
                "CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER",
                "CIVIL_AIRSPACE_USER"
            ],
            "informationCategory": [
                "METEOROLOGICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE"
            ],
            "applicationMessageExchangePattern": [
                {
                    "name": "Request/Reply"
                }
            ],
            "geospatialCategorisation": {
                "region": [
                    "EUR"
                ],
                "description": "The dataset is valid for Europe"
            },
            "lifeCycle": [
                {
                    "lifeCycleStage": "OPERATIONAL",
                    "from": "2023-06-17"
                }
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        },
        "generalDescription": {
            "operationalEnvironment": {
                "operationalNeeds": [
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 2021/116 (CP1), AF 5 (System Wide Information Management)",
                        "description": "<p>5.1 Operational and technical scope, The context is the support of common infrastructure components (5.1.1), the exchange of meteorological information compliant with the SWIM yellow profile technical infrastructure and specifications (5.1.2) and the ATM sub-functionality on Meteorological information exchange (5.1.4). Meteorological information provided supporting aeronautical processes and aids involving the relevant MET information, translation processes to derive constraints for weather and convert such information in an ATM impact, where the system capability mainly targets a \u2018time to decision\u2019 horizon between 20 minutes and 7 daysdepending on service payload for aerodrome and/or en-route/approach and/or network information management.</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0116"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 2021/116 (CP1), AF 5 (System Wide Information Management)",
                        "description": "<p>5.2 Geographical Scope, SWIM services must be deployed in the EATMN.</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0116"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 2021/116 (CP1), AF 5 (System Wide Information Management)",
                        "description": "<p>5.3 Stakeholders required to implement the functionality and implementation target dates. (b) Meteorological information exchange must be implemented by all European area control centres, by the airports referred to in point 1.2, by the Network Manager and by MET providers. The common infrastructure components referred to in point 5.1.1 must be provided and operated by the above mentioned operational stakeholders by the implementation target date of 31 December 2024. They must must provide and operate SWIM sub-functionalities referred to in points 5.1.2 to 5.1.6 by the implementation target date of 31 December 2025. In deploying the SWIM functionality, Member States must ensure that civil or military cooperation is run to the extent required by point 3.2 of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139.</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0116"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 2021/116 (CP1), AF 5 (System Wide Information Management)",
                        "description": "<p>5.4 Need for synchronisation. The timely network-wide implementation of SWIM infrastructure and the activation of the relevant services are essential pre-requisites for most of common project one ATM functionalities. The relevant stakholders must synchronise their implementation plans and efforts according to the deployment programme that must aim to achieving the same level of equipage and improve the network usage.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0116"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 2021/116 (CP1), AF 5 (System Wide Information Management)",
                        "description": "<p>5.5 The expected environmental improvements. SWIM contributes to the overall environmental objectives of the other AFs by enabling interoperability and more efficient exchange of information between all ATM operational environments (en-route, airports, TMA, Network Manager).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0116"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 2021/116 (CP1), AF 5 (System Wide Information Management)",
                        "description": "<p>5.6 Interdependencies with other ATM functionalities. SWIM services enable the other ATM functionalities referred to in AF1, AF2, AF3 and AF4.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0116"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "ICAO Annex 3, Chapter 9.1.1",
                        "description": "<p>Meteorological information shall be supplied to operators and flight crew members for a) pre-flight planning by operators; b) in-flight replanning by operators using centralized operational control of flight operations; c) use by flight crew members before departure; and d) aircraft in flight.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "ICAO Annex 3, Chapter 9.1.3",
                        "description": "<p>Meteorological information supplied to operators and flight crew members shall be up to date and include the following information, as agreed between the meteorological authority and the operators concerned: [...] METAR or SPECI (including trend forecasts as issued in accordance with regional air navigation agreement) for the aerodromes of departure and intended landing, and for take-off, en-route and destination alternate aerodromes; [...]<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 373/2017 annex V - MET.OR.100",
                        "description": "<p>Meteorological data and information - (a) A meteorological services provider shall provide operators, flight crew members, air traffic services units, search and rescue services units, aerodrome operators, accident and incident investigation bodies, and other service providers and aviation entities with the meteorological information necessary for the performance of their respective functions, as determined by the competent authority. (b) A meteorological services provider shall provide operators, flight crew members, air traffic services units, search and rescue services units, aerodrome operators, accident and incident investigation bodies, and other service providers and aviation entities with the meteorological information necessary for the performance of their respective functions, as determined by the competent authority.</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32017R0373"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 373/2017 annex V - MET.OR.105",
                        "description": "<p>Retention of meteorological information - (a) A meteorological services provider shall retain meteorological information issued for a period of at least 30 days from the date of issue. (b) This meteorological information shall be made available, on request, for inquiries or investigations and, for these purposes, shall be retained until the inquiry or investigation is completed.</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32017R0373"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 373/2017 annex V - MET.OR.110",
                        "description": "<p>Meteorological information exchange requirements - A&nbsp; meteorological services provider shall ensure it&nbsp; has&nbsp; systems and&nbsp; processes in&nbsp; place, as&nbsp; well&nbsp; as&nbsp; access to&nbsp; suitable telecommunications facilities to: (a) enable the exchange of operational meteorological information with other meteorological services providers; (b)&nbsp; provide the required meteorological information to the users in a timely manner.</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32017R0373"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Implementing Regulation 373/2017 annex V - MET.OR.115",
                        "description": "<p>Meteorological bulletins - The meteorological services provider responsible for the area concerned shall provide meteorological bulletins to the relevant users, via the aeronautical fixed service or the internet.</p>",
                        "reference": {
                            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32017R0373"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            },
            "functionality": [
                {
                    "name": "Data Distribution",
                    "description": "<p>The user gets through a WFS polygons with 3 different severoty levels:</p><ul><li>light convection</li><li>moderate convection</li><li>severe convection</li></ul>",
                    "realWorldEffect": "Information has been shared; the service consumer gets the requested data."
                }
            ],
            "qualitiesOfService": {
                "performance": [
                    {
                        "name": "Performance",
                        "description": "<p>actual preoperational status</p>"
                    }
                ],
                "reliability": [
                    {
                        "name": "Reliability",
                        "description": "<p>actual preoperational status</p>"
                    }
                ],
                "security": [
                    {
                        "name": "Security",
                        "description": "<p>actual preoperational status</p>"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "accessAndUseConditions": [
                {
                    "name": "General Terms and Conditions of Business",
                    "type": "LEGAL_CONSTRAINT",
                    "description": "<p><a href=\"https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/terms/terms_conditions_download.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&amp;v=8\">https://www.dwd.de/EN/service/terms/terms_conditions_download.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&amp;v=8</a></p>"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Customization",
                    "type": "SERVICE_POLICY",
                    "description": "<p>Within the given constraints the user can customize the service to individual needs if applicable. DWD provides the service delivery from begin to the end of the subscription. If no start time is given, the subscription will be processed immediately. If no end time is given the subscription will be processed infinitely or up to the time when the service reaches the lifecycle status 'retired'.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Information Retainment",
                    "type": "SERVICE_CONSUMPTION_CONSTRAINT",
                    "description": "<p>According to ICAO Annex 3 the meteorological information is retained for a period of at least 30 days from the date of issue. This relates to the information itself and not the request time of the customer!<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Subscription",
                    "type": "SERVICE_CONSUMPTION_CONSTRAINT",
                    "description": "<p>Consumers needs to subscribe for the service by contacting the DWD before data can be received.</p>"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Authentication and authorization",
                    "type": "SECURITY_CONSTRAINT",
                    "description": "<p>The usage is limited to authorized users with HTTP Basic Authentication.</p>"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Encryption",
                    "type": "SECURITY_CONSTRAINT",
                    "description": "<p>The communication is encrypted by SSL.</p>"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Signature",
                    "type": "SECURITY_CONSTRAINT",
                    "description": "<p>The requested information may contain a signature using SHA256.</p>"
                }
            ],
            "validation": [
                {
                    "type": "SELF_VALIDATION",
                    "description": {
                        "evidence": "Service tested by DWD"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "concepts": [
                {
                    "name": "Filtering Capabilities",
                    "description": "<p>It is possible to add filters that is applicable to the OGC WFS service</p>"
                }
            ],
            "dateInOperation": "2023-08-01"
        },
        "informationDescription": {
            "informationDefinition": [
                {
                    "name": "Convection",
                    "definition": "no definition avilable",
                    "datatype": "objectbased polygones",
                    "airmCorrespondence": "urn:aero:airm:1.0.0:LogicalModel:Subjects:Meteorology:Convection"
                }
            ]
        },
        "technicalDescription": {
            "serviceMonitoring": {
                "monitoringDescription": "<p>The DWD Geoserver is montitored by 24/7 maintanance</p>\r\n"
            },
            "technicalConstraint": [
                {
                    "name": "OGC-Filter Encoding ",
                    "description": "<p><a href=\"https://www.ogc.org/standards/filter\">https://www.ogc.org/standards/filter</a></p>"
                }
            ],
            "behaviour": [
                {
                    "name": "WFS Geoserver",
                    "description": "<p>This service is based on WFS Geoserver and follows the beahviour of the Geoserver. ...</p>"
                }
            ]
        },
        "serviceInterface": [
            {
                "name": "WFS Request",
                "description": "<p>The interface is used to receive the data via WFS.</p>",
                "provisionSide": "PROVIDER_SIDE",
                "endpoints": [
                    {
                        "name": "Geoserver",
                        "description": "<p>This is the connection between the service provider and the customer via WFS. You need to contact the DWD aviation customer service for getting the credentials to retreive the specific layer which is described in this sevice description.</p>",
                        "url": "http://maps.dwd.de"
                    }
                ],
                "operations": [
                    {
                        "name": "WFS operations",
                        "description": "<p>Pleas see the WFS documentation for detailed information</p><p><a href=\"https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wfs/index.html\">https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wfs/index.html</a></p>",
                        "idempotency": "NON_IDEMPOTENT",
                        "messages": [
                            {
                                "name": "WFS Request",
                                "direction": "IN"
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "WFS Response",
                                "direction": "OUT"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "messageExchangePattern": "SYNCHRONOUS_REQUEST_RESPONSE"
            }
        ],
        "references": {
            "implementedStandard": [
                {
                    "title": "WFS",
                    "standardType": "EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_TECHNICAL_INFRASTRUCTURE",
                    "conformanceStatement": "is conformant",
                    "version": "2.0.0",
                    "description": "<p>OGC Web Feature Service</p>"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}