Title :
Web Services for Geographic Information Systems
Author :
Tu, Shengru ; Abdelguerfi, Mahdi
Author_Institution :
University of New Orleans
Abstract :
A surge in Web services and applications for geographic information systems (GISs) has made large spatial-data archives available over the Internet. Significant accomplishments in GIS Web services have led to several exemplifying map and image services that adhere to Web services standards and provide geospatial data and digital maps to enterprise developers.
Keywords :
GIS; Open Geospatial Consortium; Web services; geographic information systems; Geographic Information Systems; Information systems; OWL; Ontologies; Performance analysis; Portals; Prototypes; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Web services; GIS; Open Geospatial Consortium; Web services; geographic information systems;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2006.114
