Paving the path to a geoscience gateway

Geoscience is one of the most prominent research areas today, involved in modelling and analysing the evolvement of Earth systems for the betterment of mankind. Geoscientists engaged in geoscience research and experiments often use sophisticated software tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Nevertheless, as computational geoscience is an emerging field, effective management and utilization of available geoscience data remains a major challenge. Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Processing Service (WPS) standard provides extensive support and contribution towards the field of computational geoscience. WPS standard offers an interface for distributed geoprocessing and as a result it enables integration of various geoprocessing libraries and processes into WPS implementations. Furthermore, it facilitates sharing common geoprocessing services among different communities and eliminates the need of redeveloping. OGC WPS is a widely adopted standard among geoscientists.