Title :
Tracking Dynamics of Geospatial Phenomena in Distributed and Heterogeneous Environments Using Scientific Workflow and Web Services Technologies
Author_Institution :
LTER Network Office, New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM
Abstract :
We propose to use W3C Web services and recently emerging scientific workflow technologies for geospatial data processing in distributed and heterogeneous computation environments. The Web service technology provides platform independence and greater interoperability; the scientific workflow technology provides software reuse and visual programming. We demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach using storm dynamics tracking from weather radar data as an example. Technical details of algorithm development, Web services publishing, workflow composition and execution for the demonstrative example are discussed
Keywords :
Web services; geophysics computing; open systems; software reusability; storms; visual programming; W3C Web services; Web services publishing; Web services technologies; distributed environments; geospatial data processing; geospatial phenomena; heterogeneous environments; scientific workflow; software reuse; storm dynamics tracking; visual programming; weather radar data; workflow composition; workflow execution; Distributed computing; Geographic Information Systems; Grid computing; Meteorological radar; Open source software; Prototypes; Publishing; Radar tracking; Storms; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
Grid and Cooperative Computing, 2006. GCC 2006. Fifth International Conference
Conference_Location :
Hunan
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2694-2
DOI :
10.1109/GCC.2006.95
