Install and Configure THREDDS Data Server

THREDDS is a web server that provides metadata and data access for geospatial datasets.Purpose of this page is to explain how to configure a GeoNetwork service instance in order to fulfill the needs of gCube environment. Please refer to third party's website for further details.

Installation

Environment prerequisites :

• JRE 7+
• Tomcat 7+

Suggested environment : SmartGears installation.

Tomcat configuration

In D4Science infrastructure, the following configuration is recommended :

• Catalog on separate disk :
  • Symbolic link
    • $TOMCAT_HOME/content -> /data/content
  • Set JRE property :
    • THREDDS_CONTENT_ROOT=$TOMCAT_HOME/content
    • JAVA_OPTS="-Dtds.content.root.path=$THREDDS_CONTENT_ROOT $JAVA_OPTS"