On the construction of eastweb framework — A plug-in framework for processing earth observation data streams

The EASTWeb system has been developed to facilitate access to earth science datasets for public health research and applications. In order to exploit the usage of the system, there is a need to expand the types of the data archives that the EASTWeb can process. The EASTWeb plugin framework introduces novel plugins and a plugin factory to allow the users to customize it to access and process different types of the earth observation data streams. This paper reviews the EASTWeb system, upon which the EASTWeb framework is built, and presents the top-level architectural design of the framework in detail. The framework is currently being implemented in the JAVA programming language according to the design presented in the paper.