Service-Oriented Computing: Key Concepts and Principles
IEEE Internet Computing
The GEON portal: accelerating knowledge discovery in the geosciences
WIDM '06 Proceedings of the 8th annual ACM international workshop on Web information and data management
A first approach to web services for the National Water Information System
Environmental Modelling & Software
Engineering new paths to water data
Computers & Geosciences
An integrated system for publishing environmental observations data
Environmental Modelling & Software
Service-oriented applications for environmental models: Reusable geospatial services
Environmental Modelling & Software
A generic approach for developing process-level hydrologic modeling components
Environmental Modelling & Software
Prototyping an online wetland ecosystem services model using open model sharing standards
Environmental Modelling & Software
Modeling water resource systems using a service-oriented computing paradigm
Environmental Modelling & Software
An open software environment for hydrological model assessment and development
Environmental Modelling & Software
Integrated environmental modeling: A vision and roadmap for the future
Environmental Modelling & Software
A tool for mapping and spatio-temporal analysis of hydrological data
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
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Discovering and accessing hydrologic and climate data for use in research or water management can be a difficult task that consumes valuable time and personnel resources. Until recently, this task required discovering and navigating many different data repositories, each having its own website, query interface, data formats, and descriptive language. New advances in cyberinfrastructure and in semantic mediation technologies have provided the means for creating better tools supporting data discovery and access. In this paper we describe a freely available and open source software tool, called HydroDesktop, that can be used for discovering, downloading, managing, visualizing, and analyzing hydrologic data. HydroDesktop was created as a means for searching across and accessing hydrologic data services that have been published using the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) Hydrologic Information System (HIS). We describe the design and architecture of HydroDesktop, its novel contributions in web services-based hydrologic data search and discovery, and its unique extensibility interface that enables developers to create custom data analysis and visualization plug-ins. The functionality of HydroDesktop and some of its existing plug-ins are introduced in the context of a case study for discovering, downloading, and visualizing data within the Bear River Watershed in Idaho, USA.