RESTful implementation of geospatial services for Earth and Space Science applications

Mazzetti, P.; Nativi, Stefano; Caron, J.

doi:10.1080/17538940902866153

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“…We have presented an approach that lowers the barrier to deal with complex data formats, and standard service interfaces which are used in GIIs to increase interoperability and interlinking, however recent research lines (e.g., Granell et al, 2013, Mazzetti et al 2009) point out the necessity to improve this interlinking by establishing resource-oriented architectures following REST principles. We did not address this here but it is a possible future research topic, to investigate how more light-weight architectures may facilitate the interaction with resources (data and models).…”

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confidence: 99%

Publishing sensor observations into Geospatial Information Infrastructures: A use case in fire danger assessment

Díaz

Bröring

McInerney

et al. 2013

Environmental Modelling & Software

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To improve environmental monitoring, the availability of great coverage of spatiotemporal data in an interoperable way is crucial for its integration into environmental models, for example, to compute fire danger models. To produce up-to-date and accurate results those models need the availability of data with high temporal and spatial resolution. Thus, it is promising to consider the increasing number of in-situ sensors providing observations of our environment in real-time. Today, interoperable access to such spatio-temporal data is achieved by Geospatial Information Infrastructures (GIIs). From a technical point of view GIIs provide this data through standards-based Web service interfaces. While those Web service interfaces already enable the interoperable discovery and retrieval of sensor observations, the functionality to publish sensor observations is still an arduous task. Hence, in this paper, we present an approach to improve the registration of sensors and the publication of their observations via standards-based Web service interfaces. We evaluate our approach by extending a standards-based GII and by applying the developed approach to the example of integrating in-situ weather observations into the European Forest Fire Information System for assessing fire danger in Spain.

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Publishing sensor observations into Geospatial Information Infrastructures: A use case in fire danger assessment

Díaz

Bröring

McInerney

et al. 2013

Environmental Modelling & Software

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“…Similar interfaces for the WCS have also been proposed (Mazzetti et al, 2009). This may be caused by the inherent ease of mapping data objects to resource URIs, and operations on those data objects to HTTP verbs.…”

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UncertWeb Processing Service: Making Models Easier to Access on the Web

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Cornford

Bastin

2012

Transactions in GIS

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“…Designing RESTful web services following the REST constraints described above has gained popularity within the Earth science, mobile and location based services community (Mazzetti, Nativi, & Caron, 2009).…”

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“…In SOA client applications interacts with a distributed Web applications through delegation, that is, by specifying the desired capability to a service component instead of directly acting on the resources themselves (Mazzetti, Nativi, & Caron, 2009). In ROA, through, client applications interact directly with the exposed resources.…”

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Open Source Based Deployment of Environmental Data into Geospatial Information Infrastructures

Gil

Díaz

Granell³

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Geographic Information Systems

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Today, scientists use local and closed geospatial solutions to run their models and store their results. This may limit their ability to share their models, and results with other interested colleagues. This scenario is changing with the advent of new factors such as the rapid growth and rise of open source projects, or new paradigms promoted by government organizations to manage environmental data, such as Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) directive, or the massive use of Web 2.0 techniques where users are looking for applications with a high degree of collaboration, interactiveness, and multimedia effects. Many authors address the versatility of Spatial Data Infrastructures where resources are shared and accessed via standard service according to complex specifications. In this context, the authors point out the need to merge the traditional building and maintenance of these infrastructures, driven by official providers, with these more participative methodologies where users can participate in creating and integrating information. It seems necessary to develop new geospatial tools which integrate these new trends. This paper proposes a unified solution offering to the scientific field an open development framework, based on standards and philosophies focused on new technologies and scientific needs.

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RESTful implementation of geospatial services for Earth and Space Science applications

Cited by 35 publications

References 3 publications

Publishing sensor observations into Geospatial Information Infrastructures: A use case in fire danger assessment

Publishing sensor observations into Geospatial Information Infrastructures: A use case in fire danger assessment

UncertWeb Processing Service: Making Models Easier to Access on the Web

Open Source Based Deployment of Environmental Data into Geospatial Information Infrastructures

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