Building and applying geographical information system Grids

TLDR

The study aims to develop and apply Web‑service‑based GIS grids that enable dynamic assembly of GIS and traditional grid services for tasks such as earthquake modeling and forecasting. Using the WS‑I+ approach, the authors built data grid components, map‑generation services, metadata storage services, and orchestration tools for Web‑service‑based GIS grids. The tools were applied to earthquake modeling and forecasting, demonstrating their potential for general‑purpose GIS grid applications. © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Abstract

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.