Building an On-line Geospatial Analysis System with AJAX and Web Services

Author

Han, Weiguo ; Di, Liping ; Zhao, Peisheng ; Li, Xiaoyan

Author_Institution

Center for Spatial Inf. Sci. & Syst., George Mason Univ., Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

6-10 July 2009

Firstpage

408

Lastpage

413

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), and other new Web technologies have revolutionized the use of geospatial Web applications. The GeoBrain project has built a powerful online extensible and scalable geospatial analysis system based on SOA. This system utilizes Web Services and AJAX to increase the interactive capabilities of user interfaces and improve the user experience. It provides Geosciences community a highly interoperable way of accessing Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web services for geospatial data discovery, retrieval, visualization and analysis. It also leverages Web service standards to enable geospatial services discovery, selection, negotiation and invocation to be used in making more informed decisions.

Keywords

Java; Web services; XML; geophysics computing; software architecture; GeoBrain project; OGC Web services; XML; asynchronous JavaScript; online geospatial analysis system; open geospatial consortium; service oriented architecture; Cascading style sheets; Geology; Information analysis; Java; Open source software; Service oriented architecture; Standards development; User interfaces; Web services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services - I, 2009 World Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3708-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.97

Filename

5190626