Another web map server, that is worth mentioning for the environmental modeling community, is the ncWMS which has the
particular feature of being able to serve 4D data stored as NetCDF files, a widely used file format for storing environmental model datasets (Rew and Davis, 1990). The DEFENSE (Tiranti et al., 2014), and the interactive visualization system by Kulawiak et al. (2010) are some examples of environmental decision support systems that use FOSS web map servers.