The WGISS team has discussed a preliminary design for the CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog (CWIC) with the following capabilities. CWIC will provide an access point for major CEOS agency catalog systems. CWIC will interface to user interface clients by using the GEO standards. CWIC will send directory/collection searches to the International Directory Network. CWIC will distribute inventory/product searches to the CEOS agency inventory systems using the agency systems native protocol. CWIC will be offered as the CEOS community catalog as part of the GEO common infrastructure. NOAA is providing the initial funding for the CWIC prototype by providing engineers to participate in the CWIC design team and implementers to implement the major CWIC components. Other participating CEOS agencies are expected to contribute at least one engineer each to the CWIC design team and to implement the actual access to their own agency inventory system. The end result of the design team activities will be a distributed search and access to satellite inventory data at the CEOS agency data systems.

1. Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS) - International Directory Network (IDN)
2. U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Earth Observing System (EOS) Clearinghouse (ECHO)
3. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS)
4. U.S. Geology Survey (USGS) - Lansdat Catalog System
5. U.S. Geology Survey (USGS) - LSI Portal
6. National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
7. Academy of Opto-Electronics (AOE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)