Building GIS web services on JXTA network

In recent years, Web services and Peer-to-Peer (or simply P2P) appear as two of the hottest research topics in network computing. On the one hand, by adopting a decentralized, network-based style, P2P technologies can make P2P systems enhance overall reliability and fault-tolerance, increase autonomy, and enable ad-hoc communication and collaboration. On the other hand, Web services provides a good approach to integrate various heterogeneous systems and applications into a cooperative environment. This paper presents the techniques of combining Web services and P2P technologies into GIS to construct a new generation of GIS, which is more flexible and cooperative. As a case study, an ongoing project JGWS is introduced, which is an experimental GIS Web services platform built on JXTA. This paper also explores the schemes of building GIS Web services in a P2P environment.     

Volunteered Geographic Information: A Bicycling Enthusiast Perspective

Mapping technologies have made considerable strides in recent decades. Global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing satellites, Web-based mapping services, and geographic information systems (GIS) have facilitated the collection, distribution, analysis, and ultimately interaction with geospatial information. In particular, portable GPS have altered how individuals participate in mapping. Individuals can use GPS to collect tracings of their personal interactions with the environment. These interactions can then be uploaded to one of many available Web-based mapping services. Once uploaded, the geospatial data can be mapped and shared among the broader community of users. Such volunteered geographic information (VGI) exemplifies the conceptualization of an individual collecting, mapping, and sharing personal geographic information. This paper focuses on challenges surrounding VGI. To help place these challenges in a broader context, specialized Web services and GPS technologies developed for the bicycling community will serve as examples of the current status and future prospects of VGI.     

组件与服务耦合的地学模型集成方法与实现

传统的空间信息处理建模工具,如ArcGIS ModelBuilder,聚焦于地理空间信息处理算子的组合建模。“模型网”的提出对已有的空间信息处理建模工具提出了新的挑战,一方面,现有的空间信息处理建模工具需要能够支持网络环境,支持空间信息服务的即插即用;另一方面,服务需要与复杂地学模型耦合,支持基于时间步长的地学模型运行。针对组件与服务并存的现状以及异构模型和算法兼容性差等问题,提出了组件与服务耦合的地学模型集成方法;并从“模型即服务”和模型集成需求出发,提出了基于WebSocket协议发布地学模型的新方法,实现了基于时间步长的地学模型在线共享。采用科学工作流技术实现了遵循国际开放地理空间信息联盟（Open Geospatial Consortium,OGC）标准的空间信息服务、基于WebSocket协议的地学模型服务、遵循OpenMI开放建模接口规范的模型组件集成,具有逻辑一致、物理分隔、执行可控等特点。利用该方法将传统的空间信息处理建模工具拓展为地学模型集成工具,并应用于具体案例中,验证了方法的可行性。     

风电场设计私有云GIS平台架构研究

云计算是目前信息产业最热门的技术之一,GIS厂商纷纷将GIS软件迁移至云计算环境。与国外云计算部署不同,国内更青睐私有云技术,企业、政府机构纷纷搭建私有云GIS平台。针对风电场设计的特点,本文基于目前云计算应用和研究,构建了私有云GIS平台的体系框架,并对平台所涉及的主要关键技术进行了深入探索,对私有云GIS模式下的资源进行了详细的分类,包括核心服务、服务管理、用户访问接口3个部分。其中,核心服务将硬件基础设施、软件运行环境、应用程序抽象成服务,可满足多样化的风电场设计应用需要。     

基于Web Service的地理数据服务架构研究

首先详细讨论了目前主要的地理信息共享和互操作技术,包括Web Service,OGC的WMS/WFS,Map API,以及数据查询服务,分析了它们的特点及应用情况.并以此为基础,提出了基于Web Service服务的地理数据集服务框架,GIS数据以服务的形式在框架内发布,将各种服务集成是该框架下的主要开发模式.     

GeoPW: Laying Blocks for the Geospatial Processing Web

Recent advances in Web‐related technologies have significantly promoted the wide sharing and integrated analysis of distributed geospatial data. Geospatial applications often involve diverse sources of data and complex geoprocessing functions. Existing Web‐based GIS focuses more on access to distributed geospatial data. In scientific problem solving, the ability to carry out geospatial analysis is essential to geoscientific discovery. This article presents the design and implementation of GeoPW, a set of services providing geoprocessing functions over the Web. The concept of the Geospatial Processing Web is discussed to address the geoprocessing demands in the emerging information infrastructure, and the role of GeoPW in establishing the Geospatial Processing Web is identified. The services in GeoPW are implemented by developing middleware that wraps legacy GIS analysis components to provide a large number of geoprocessing utilities over the Web. These services are open and accessible to the public, and they support integrated geoprocessing on the Web.     

Spatial mashup technology and real time data integration in geo-web application using open source GIS – a case study for disaster management

The Web 2.0 technologies and standards enable web as a platform by allowing the user participation in web application. In the realization of Web 2.0, new knowledge and services are created by combining information and services from different sources which are known as ‘mashups'. The present study focused on spatial mashup solution for disaster management using open source GIS, mobile applications, web services in web 2.0, Geo-RDBMS and XML which are in the central of intelligent geo web services. The geo-web application is developed to generate the actionable GIS products at user end during disaster event by consuming various data and information services from web and central server system and also real time ground observation data collected through a mobile device. The technological solution developed in this study is successfully demonstrated for disaster management in the Assam State of India during the floods in 2010.     

基于ArcIMS的滁州市统计年鉴系统的设计与实现

WebGIS是GIS今后发展的一个重要方向,本文以安徽省滁州市统计年鉴WebGIS系统为例,利用ESRI公司的开发软件ArcIMS在.NET环境下实现了WebGIS系统的构建。     

Geospatial Human‐environment Simulation through Integration of Massive Multiplayer Online Games and Geographic Information Systems

This article reports on the initial development of a generic framework for integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Massive Multi‐player Online Gaming (MMOG) technology to support the integrated modeling of human‐environment resource management and decision‐making. We review Web 2.0 concepts, online maps, and games as key technologies to realize a participatory construction of spatial simulation and decision making practices. Through a design‐based research approach we develop a prototype framework, “GeoGame”, that allows users to play board‐game‐style simulations on top of an online map. Through several iterations we demonstrate the implementation of a range of design artifacts including: real‐time, multi‐user editing of online maps, web services, game lobby, user‐modifiable rules and scenarios building, chat, discussion, and market transactions. Based on observational, analytical, experimental and functional evaluations of design artifacts as well as a literature review, we argue that a MMO GeoGame‐framework offers a viable approach to address the complex dynamics of human‐environmental systems that require a simultaneous reconciliation of both top‐down and bottom‐up decision making where stakeholders are an integral part of a modeling environment. Further research will offer additional insight into the development of social‐environmental models using stakeholder input and the use of such models to explore properties of complex dynamic systems.     

Semantic Web and service computation in GIScience applications: a perspective and prospective

Semantic Web and Web services have been two prominent themes in the computer science and IT mainstream for more than a decade. While both of these themes have been evolving, some geographers and GIScientists have been trying to introduce and adopt such new technologies into GIScience research and development. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art and the main constraints of semantic Web and Web services technologies and their applications in GIScience. Unless some fundamental problems within both semantic Web and Web services can be resolved, such technologies will be difficult to match the needs in the GIScience community. Besides logics, more sciences and theories have to be introduced into this research front in order to break through the long-term bottleneck in semantic Web and service computation in general.     

Cesium框架多源电子地图瓦片数据混搭方案设计

针对现有的商业地理信息系统平台难以灵活整合多源影像数据融合使用的问题,深入研究Cesium平台下多种数据源的空间参考差异和瓦片组织规则,针对不同空间参考的瓦片数据源进行混搭设计,提出基于Cesium的多源本地瓦片数据静态和动态加载方案。实验结果表明,单一瓦片数据源加载方案、静态和动态多源瓦片混搭方案的展示效果较好;静态瓦片混搭方案在加载不同空间参考瓦片数据时容易造成变形;动态多源、多空间参考瓦片混搭方案能有效克服变形问题且展示效果佳。本文实现了在开源GIS平台下的多源影像数据的融合使用,为地理信息系统与遥感类项目应用提供了一个低成本、高灵活性的解决方案,具有较为明显的实际应用价值。     

基于ArcGIS Server的GIS Web服务自动发布关键技术研究

Web GIS技术主要采用GIS Web服务方式对外提供资源访问和空间分析能力。GIS Web服务提高系统资源利用率,扩大信息使用范围,但GIS Web服务主要依赖于服务器端GIS平台提供的可视化工具进行后台发布,前台用户无法根据自己业务需要自动发布GIS Web服务。文中基于ArcGIS Server平台研究一种GIS Web服务自动发布方案,以双丰林业局林政资源服务系统的在线采编模块为例,阐述该案例的应用。     

基于SOAP的海量空间数据服务

随着网络GIS应用需求的迅速增长,为海量空间数据建立高速的共享机制已经成为研究热点。提供了基于SOAP的海量空间数据服务方案,将空间数据服务分为两种应用类型,即使用GML用于数据量小的空间数据服务和FTP处理数据量大的空间数据服务。通过在AM/FM系统中应用实践及分析,使用这种方案不仅可以解决数据共享与集成,而且能够为目前的GIS应用提供功能完整、稳定可靠的数据服务。     

A Task Ontology Driven Approach for Live Geoprocessing in a Service‐Oriented Environment

In a service‐oriented environment, Web geoprocessing services can provide geoprocessing functions for a variety of applications including Sensor Web. Connecting Sensor Web and geoprocessing services together shows great potentail to support live geoprocessing using real‐time data inputs. This article proposes a task ontology driven approach to live geoprocessing. The task in the ontology contains five aspects: task type, task priority, task constraints, task model, and task process. The use of the task ontology in driving live geoprocessing includes the following steps: (1) Task model generation, which generates a concrete process model to fulfill user demands; (2) Process model instantiation, which transforms the process model into an executable workflow; (3) Workflow execution: the workflow engine executes the workflow to generate value‐added data products using Sensor Web data as inputs. The approach not only helps create semantically correct connections between Sensor Web and Web geoprocessing services, but also provides sharable problem solving knowledge using process models. A prototype system, which leverages Web 2.0, Sensor Web, Semantic Web, and geoprocessing services, is developed to demonstrate the applicability of the approach.     

基于OGC Web服务模型的城市异构GIS互操作

利用服务共享实现城市异构GIS系统互操作是解决互操作问题的一个新思路。本文首先分析了开放地理信息系统联盟(OGC Open GIS Consortium)的互操作模型(OWS Open GIS Web Service)的框架结构以及服务协作,然后以模型框架中的一个基本数据服务———地图要素服务(Web Feature Service)为例,详细介绍了利用服务共享实现城市异构GIS数据共享与互操作的具体开发过程,最后对该模式的应用前景进行了分析。     

网格GIS及其关键技术

网格计算和中间件技术在GIS软件中的实现给GIS带来了新的发展,WebGIS实现了数据的分布性,而基于中间件的网格GIS的目标是实现GIS数据和GIS功能服务的分布性。文中从分析当前WebGIS的不足入手,阐述了网格GIS的特性,以及在构建网格GIS过程中所应用的关键技术问题。网格计算技术为网格GIS提供了高速、高效的网络环境,同时中间件技术使得GIS向用户提供功能和资源服务成为可能,网格GIS中数据传输与通信是通过GMI,语言、Web services等来实现,文章最后提出了网格GIS的功能结构模型。     

B/S结构下基于Web Services技术的空间分析方法的研究

文本重点研究了B/S体系结构下WebServices技术在GIS中的应用,分析了其中的关键技术,包括B/S体系结构、WebServices技术,进行了基于WebServices技术的GIS空间分析技术的研究,最后指出了基于WebServices技术的WebGIS发展前景。     

浅析Web GIS中的相关基础技术

随着Internet的飞速发展和广泛应用,基于万维网(WWW)交互技术的WebGIS已经成为现在地理信息系统的研究热点。基于当前的研究现状,对于WebGIS实现原理中的几种相关基础技术作了简要的讨论.     

Constructing geo-information sharing architecture

Along with the development of Internet, geo-information sharing and Open GIS are of increasing importance for GIS application fields. Southwestern China consists of several provinces or districts, they are Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Chongqing, etc. The economic and information cooperation among them are of significance. The pilot platform for resource and environment geo-information sharing for the southwestern China based on Web services, OGC (Open GIS Consortium) WFS (Web feature service) is constructed. Via this pilot platform, a loose information sharing mode can be implemented to improve their cooperation level.     

基于GIS服务链的遥感影像分布式融合处理

提出了基于Web服务技术、OGC规范和工作流技术,以实现与平台无关的、具备流程编排能力的地理空间处理服务链框架,用于支持复杂的在线空间处理任务.在该框架基础上实现了一个在线遥感影像融合处理示例.该示例展示了利用OGC WCS、WPS,WSDL,UDDI和BPEL4WS等成熟的标准规范来构建GIS服务链,使得客户应用程序...