TY - JOUR
T1 - The development of a geospatial data grid by integrating OGC web services with globus-based Grid technology
AU - Di, Liping
AU - Chen, Aijun
AU - Yang, Wenli
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Wei, Yaxing
AU - Mehrotra, Piyush
AU - Hu, Chaumin
AU - Williams, Dean
PY - 2008/9/25
Y1 - 2008/9/25
N2 - Geospatial science is the science and art of acquiring, archiving, manipulating, analyzing, communicating, modeling with, and utilizing spatially explicit data for understanding physical, chemical, biological, and social systems on the Earth's surface or near the surface. In order to share distributed geospatial resources and facilitate the interoperability, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an industry-government-academia consortium, has developed a set of widely accepted Web-based interoperability standards and protocols. Grid is the technology enabling resource sharing and coordinated problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations. Geospatial Grid is an extension and application of Grid technology in the geospatial discipline. This paper discusses problems associated with directly using Globus-based Grid technology in the geospatial disciplines, the needs for geospatial Grids, and the features of geospatial Grids. Then, the paper presents a research project that develops and deploys a geospatial Grid through integrating Web-based geospatial interoperability standards and technology developed by OGC with Globus-based Grid technology. The geospatial Grid technology developed by this project makes the interoperable, personalized, on-demand data access and services a reality at large geospatial data archives. Such a technology can significantly reduce problems associated with archiving, manipulating, analyzing, and utilizing large volumes of geospatial data at distributed locations.
AB - Geospatial science is the science and art of acquiring, archiving, manipulating, analyzing, communicating, modeling with, and utilizing spatially explicit data for understanding physical, chemical, biological, and social systems on the Earth's surface or near the surface. In order to share distributed geospatial resources and facilitate the interoperability, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an industry-government-academia consortium, has developed a set of widely accepted Web-based interoperability standards and protocols. Grid is the technology enabling resource sharing and coordinated problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations. Geospatial Grid is an extension and application of Grid technology in the geospatial discipline. This paper discusses problems associated with directly using Globus-based Grid technology in the geospatial disciplines, the needs for geospatial Grids, and the features of geospatial Grids. Then, the paper presents a research project that develops and deploys a geospatial Grid through integrating Web-based geospatial interoperability standards and technology developed by OGC with Globus-based Grid technology. The geospatial Grid technology developed by this project makes the interoperable, personalized, on-demand data access and services a reality at large geospatial data archives. Such a technology can significantly reduce problems associated with archiving, manipulating, analyzing, and utilizing large volumes of geospatial data at distributed locations.
KW - Geospatial data
KW - Geospatial grid
KW - Globus
KW - Interoperability
KW - NWGISS
KW - OGC
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=53849091718&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/cpe.1292
DO - 10.1002/cpe.1292
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:53849091718
SN - 1532-0626
VL - 20
SP - 1617
EP - 1635
JO - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
JF - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
IS - 14
ER -