GeoPWTManager: a task-oriented web geoprocessing system

  • Authors:
  • Ziheng Sun;Peng Yue;Liping Di

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China;State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China;Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MS 6E1, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Geosciences
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Recent advancement of geospatial services has shown great promise to solve complex geoprocessing tasks in a distributed environment. Geoprocessing services are often chained as scientific workflows and executed in a workflow engine. This paper proposes a task-oriented architecture for Web geoprocessing systems, which leverages Web service and workflow technologies to design and execute tasks, and monitor and visualize the execution of tasks. The approach facilitates the expression of users' requirements, allows the monitoring of the task execution, and hides the complexity of technical details. A prototype system, named GeoPWTManager, is implemented to demonstrate the applicability of the approach.