Design of service-oriented architecture for spatial data integration and its application in building web-based GIS systems

In this paper we propose a service-oriented architecture for spatial data integration (SOA-SDI) in the context of a large number of available spatial data sources that are physically sitting at different places, and develop web-based GIS systems based on SOA-SDI, allowing client applications to pull in, analyze and present spatial data from those available spatial data sources. The proposed architecture logically includes 4 layers or components; they are layer of multiple data provider services, layer of da...     

面向"人"的地学可视化探讨

面向"人"地学可视化中的"人".主要从地学可视化系统的使用者(简称"应用人"),从地学可视化要表达的地球表层系统地理环境中的社会人(简称"社会人").以及从作为能地理认知与思维、能表达/传递地理知识及知识创新的"人"(简称"知识人")3个方面定义.从上述3个方面建立了面向"人"的地学可视化概念框架.在面向"应用人"方面,主要介绍了协同可视化以及自我参照可视化;在面向"社会人"方面,主要阐述个体日常行为时空路径可视化、群体行为模拟可视化,以及社会关系网络可视化;在面向"知识人"方面,主要讨论知识可视化.本文最后从本体框架、信息采集与获取技术、数据组织与表达模型、可视化表达方法、主体概念方面,对于面向"人"GIS以及可视化的关键问题与技术进行了探讨.     

Developing Web-based Mapping Applications Through Distributed Object Technology

Emerging web-based mapping technologies use the World Wide Web (WWW) and Internet protocols to provide the ability to distribute, access, and visualize geospatial information over the Internet. Many web-based mapping applications have been developed to deliver geospatial information within and across organizations and even to the public at large. A major technological challenge is to achieve interoperability amongst web-based mapping applications so that mapping and geoprocessing resources distributed over the Internet can be shared and integrated. This paper presents an approach to the development of web-based mapping applications using distributed object technology in order to enable interoperability. Distributed object technology combines object technology, which utilizes reusable software components (called objects) that model real-world entities to build software systems, and distributed computing, which allows computing resources to be distributed and accessed over computer networks. The paper introduces a distributed object technology, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA); proposes an architecture for web-based mapping using CORBA; and presents a prototype implementation.     

基于Spark的分布式空间数据存储结构设计与实现

Apache Spark分布式计算框架可用于空间大数据的管理与计算,为实现云GIS提供基础平台。针对Apache Spark的数据组织与计算模型,结合Apache HBase分布式数据库,从分布式GIS内核的理念出发,设计并实现了分布式空间数据存储结构与对象接口,并基于某国产GIS平台软件内核进行了实现。针对点、线、面数据的存储与查询,与传统空间数据库系统PostGIS进行了一系列对比实验,验证了提出的分布式空间数据存储架构的可行性与高效性。     

GeoScope: Full 3D geospatial information system case study

Aiming at the integrative management and comprehensive applications of large-scale 3D geospatial information covering the full 3D space of a city,this paper briefly introduces the design and implementation of a full 3D GIS platform:GeoScope,which provides a professional solution for the massive full three-dimensional geospatial data integration,management,analysis,visualization,and applications.GeoScope is characterized by:(1) extendible software architecture based on the hierarchical message bus,facilitates multimodal integrative applications of 2D GIS and 3D GIS;(2) unified 3D city models,support multiscale semantic representation of outdoor & indoor and aboveground & underground 3D objects;(3) high-efficient 3D geospatial database engine,supports integrated management of massive 3D geospatial data for real-time applications;and (4) high-performance visualization engine exploiting the massively parallel computation architecture of modern GPUs,supports real-time realistic rendering of large-scale complicated 3D geospatial environments.The successful pilot application of GeoScope is also illustrated with the 3D city models of 8494 km2 of the whole Wuhan City,the largest city in middle China.     

构建面向服务的汛情信息共享平台

将面向服务架构的设计原则应用到汛情信息共享平台建设中,以数字驻马店地理空间框架提供的地理信息服务数据为基础,以水利汛情信息为管理对象,借助Flex技术并结合ArcGIS Server平台,实现了汛情信息的共享与集成展示、降雨形势分析等功能,为水利部门提供了一个良好的管理规划和决策支持的Web共享平台。     

AR技术在GIS可视化中的应用及方法研究

地理数据的增强现实可视化技术,是地理信息科学可视化的一个重要的发展方向之一。首先,笔者详细地综述了国内外AR技术在GIS可视化领域的应用。针对基于真实视频影像表达地理数据的问题,笔者构建了该可视化系统的概念模型;并以户外山区地形数据和影像数据为基础,详细地阐述了AR技术可视化地理数据的原理和方法;最后,实现了以视频影像为载体的地理数据AR可视化方法。与传统地理数据的可视化方式相比,AR可视化表达方式更简单直观,真实感更强。     

面向服务的移动GIS平台架构研究

以移动GIS平台架构为研究对象,采用面向服务思想设计并实现了一种基于"云+端"模式的移动GIS快速开发平台,提出一种分层开发模型OS-GAL-IAL,研制出跨平台、高性能、全自主的GIS内核,实现了一套精细化、流程化、可视化、易扩展的快速开发框架,能帮助开发者快速构建快速、高效的移动GIS应用系统。     

Building the World Wide Hypermap (WWH) with a RESTful architecture

The hypermap concept was introduced in 1992 as a way to hyperlink geospatial features to text, multimedia or other geospatial features. Since then, the concept has been used in several applications, although it has been found to have some limitations. On the other hand, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) adopt diverse and heterogeneous service oriented architectures (SOAs). They are developed by different standard bodies and are generally disconnected from mass market web solutions. This work expands the hypermap concept to overcome its limitations and harmonise it with geospatial resource oriented architecture (ROA), connecting it to the semantic web and generalising it to the World Wide Hypermap (WWH) as a tool for building a single ‘Digital Earth’. Global identifiers, dynamic links, link purposes and resource management capabilities are introduced as a solution that orchestrates data, metadata and data access services in a homogeneous way. This is achieved by providing a set of rules using the current Internet paradigm formalised in the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) architecture and combining it with existing Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards. A reference implementation is also presented and the strategies needed to implement the WWH, which mainly consist in a set of additions to current Geographic Information System (GIS) products and a RESTful server that mediates between the Internet and the local GIS applications.     

环境空气质量系列专题地图制图方法研究

环境与发展是当今世界共同关注的重大问题。目前我国经济正处于高速发展时期,随着经济社会的快速发展和城镇一体化进程的加快,空气污染问题日趋严重,对人体健康造成很大伤害,因此环境保护的重要性日益突出。本文通过建立环境质量空间数据库,利用地理信息软件ArcGIS为基础平台,将环境空气质量监测数据与地理空间位置进行地理匹配,利用地理信息可视化技术,实现环境空气质量监测数据中各主要空气污染物的浓度时间分布的可视化表达,制作环境空气质量专题地图,有助于有效地从海量监测数据中发现有价值的信息,为环境保护部门提供决策参考依据。     

Applicability of open-source web mapping libraries for building massive Web GIS clients

Journal of Geographical Systems - The increasing capabilities of web browsers and the growing spread of JavaScript have an impact on the development of web-based GIS systems. While in traditional...     

一种基于地形轮廓匹配的地理数据AR可视化新方法

地理数据的增强现实可视化技术,是地理信息科学可视化的一个重要的发展方向.作者针对结构特征明显的区域,初探了增强现实技术在地学可视化领域的应用.首先,分别提取视频影像数据的可视轮廓和DEM地形数据的水平轮廓,将两种地形轮廓匹配,实现地理数据的地理坐标系与视频影像的图像坐标系之间的配准,最后模拟了地理数据基于视频影像的AR...     

数字太原地理空间框架建设项目方案探讨

介绍了“数字太原”地理空间框架建设的目标、数据形式、系统结构、技术路线和流程,具体说明了地理空间信息平台的建设中的数据内容和地址数据的采集方法,详细介绍了地籍管理系统、矿产资源管理系统、环保监测信息系统、公众服务地理信息系统的建设内容。     

Ontology‐supported Querying of Geographical Databases

Querying geographical information systems has been recognized as a difficult task for non‐expert users. Furthermore, user queries are often characterized by semantic aspects not directly managed by traditional spatial databases or GIS. Examples of such semantic geospatial queries are the use of implicit spatial relations between objects, or the reference of domain concepts not explicitly represented in data. To handle such queries, we envisage a system that translates natural language queries into spatial SQL statements on a database, thus improving standard GIS with new semantic capabilities. Within this general objective, the contribution of this article is to introduce a methodology to handle semantic geospatial queries issued over a spatial database. This approach captures semantics from an ontology built upon the spatial database and enriched by domain concepts and properties specifically defined to represent the localization of objects. Some examples of the use of the methodology in the urban domain are presented.     

基于地学信息服务的Internet 3维 GIS：GeoEye 3D

随着Internet、分布式计算以及计算机图形学的飞速发展,开发基于Internet的3维GIS系统已成为可能。这3种技术的有力结合为地学领域开创了一个崭新的时代,促使网络GIS的概念由“地学数据服务”提高到“地学信息处理服务”的新阶段,不仅地学数据,地学信息处理功能也可以分布在基于客户／服务器的架构上,用户可以根据不同的需求“租用”和组合来自于Internet的不同功能。基于这一概念和作者提出的构件注册模型,我们从1998年开始着手研究和开发新一代的Internet 3维GIS：GeoEye 3D。这一系统集成了GIS、3维可视化、分布式计算及网络通信等技术,允许用户通过标准Internet浏览器来应用远程功能对远程和本地数据进行可视化分析。阐述了地学信息处理服务概念和构件注册模型以及GeoEye 3D的系统架构、算法和应用实例。     

地理空间可视分析及其研究方向综述

介绍了可视分析的概念和内涵,分析了可视分析与可视化、地理空间可视分析等概念的关系。研究了地理空间可视分析的概念和内涵,在此基础上提出了地理空间可视分析的5个重要研究方向:面向可视分析的地理空间数据转换;多维地理空间数据的深层可视化表达和分析;地理空间可视分析推理;地理空间数据的协同可视分析和决策;地理空间数据可视分析工具的设计和评估。     

空间信息支持下的电子政务及其展望

我国电子政务建设正在成为国民经济和社会其他领域信息化的先行者。政府的大量信息与空间位置有关 ,作为一个战略措施 ,空间数据基础设施已经被列为家国信息化建设的重点任务之一。从四个方面阐述了空间数据在电子政务建设中的基础作用。尽管现代GIS提供了许多基于数据的高级分析功能 ,以空间数据承载各种专业数据并实现其可视化是GIS的最基本功能 ,通过这种看来似乎寻常的信息查询服务 ,它所启动的用户视觉与神经器官的内在联想能力 ,及其对分布图形的记忆、分析与推演作用 ,远远超过了可视化自身所提供的直接效果。而在这种简单显示的背后 ,大型GIS潜藏着十分复杂的空间数据的组织与管理调度技术     

Integrating Web-based GIS and image processing tools for environmental monitoring and natural resource management

The combined powers of Web-based geographic information systems (GIS) and on-line remote sensing tools can significantly reduce the high cost and labor associated with environmental monitoring and natural resource management. This paper introduces an integrated Web-based GIS architecture by combining three levels of geographic information services (GIServices): data archive, information display, and spatial analysis. A prototype Web site, WGAT (Web-based GIS and Analytic Tools), has been developed to provide easy access of geospatial information and to facilitate Web-based image analysis and change detection capabilities for natural resource managers and regional park rangers. The Web-based integration framework emphasizes user-oriented services, distributed network environments, metadata standards, communication protocols, client/server computation, and ubiquitous access.This paper forms a portion of the Integrated Mobile GIS and Wireless Image Web Services for Environmental Monitoring and Management project supported by NASAs Affiliated Research Center (ARC) at San Diego State University. Funding by the NASA ARC program and matching funds from the San Diego State University Foundation are acknowledged and greatly appreciated. The author wishes to thank John Kaiser, the ARC program coordinator, and Dr. Douglas Stow, the ARC program Principle Investigator, for their coordination efforts on this project. Java programming was provided by Liang Guo, a geography graduate student at San Diego State University.     

3-D Geovisualization of satellite images on smart devices by the integration of spatial DBMS,RESTful API and WebGL

Recent technological advancements in web-based geographic information systems have enabled access to satellite images on smart devices. The Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture overcomes difficulties that are associated with conventional data communications on the web, and the Web Graphics Library (WebGL) can be used as an alternative to web-based three-dimensional geographic visualization (3-D geovisualization) due to its efficient image processing capabilities. This paper describes a 3-D geovisualization system that was developed for satellite images on smart devices by integrating a spatial database management system (DBMS), a RESTful application programming interface (API), and WebGL. Spatiotemporal objects were constructed for time-series satellite images within a DBMS and a RESTful API was built for spatiotemporal queries to the time-series database so that the requested satellite data could be represented in 3-D on smart devices using WebGL. Satellite images that are represented in WebGL give a more realistic 3-D experience when they are combined with terrain data and provide for intuitive observations of the relationships between pixel values and associated geospatial conditions. This paper shows that a creative combination of existing technologies can be used to enhance and display satellite images on smart devices for 3-D geovisualization.     

全国警用空间信息服务互联互通的关键技术

针对大型空间信息服务平台构建过程中的数据互联互通和信息集成问题,从集成框架体系结构、技术路线和关键技术3个方面进行研究,提出了分布式地理空间信息集成框架的5层体系结构模型和原子空间信息服务概念;通过研究分布式空间查询路由算法和虚拟四叉树模型等关键技术,探索实现分布式环境下的空间信息的互联互通。