Building and applying geographical information system Grids

  • Authors:

  • Galip Aydin;Ahmet Sayar;Harshawardhan Gadgil;Mehmet S. Aktas;Geoffrey C. Fox;Sunghoon Ko;Hasan Bulut;Marlon E. Pierce

  • Affiliations:

  • Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. and Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.;Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. and Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.;Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. and Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.;Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. and Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.;Community Grids Lab., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Dept. of Comp. Sci., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN and Dept. of Physics, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.;Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.;Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. and Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.;Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Grids and Geospatial Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We discuss the development and application of Web-service-based geographical information system (GIS) Grids. Following the WS-I+ approach of building Grids on Web service standards, we have developed data Grid components for archival and real-time data, map generating services that can be used to build user interfaces, information services for storing both stateless and stateful metadata, and service orchestration and management tools. Our goal is to support dynamically assembled Grid service collections that combine both GIS services with more traditional Grid capabilities such as file transfer and remote code execution. We are applying these tools to problems in earthquake modeling and forecasting, but we are attempting to build general purpose tools by using and extending appropriate standards. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.