Tracking Dynamics of Geospatial Phenomena in Distributed and Heterogeneous Environments Using Scientific Workflow and Web Services Technologies

Author

Zhang, Jianting

Author_Institution

LTER Network Office, New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

474

Lastpage

481

Abstract

We propose to use W3C Web services and recently emerging scientific workflow technologies for geospatial data processing in distributed and heterogeneous computation environments. The Web service technology provides platform independence and greater interoperability; the scientific workflow technology provides software reuse and visual programming. We demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach using storm dynamics tracking from weather radar data as an example. Technical details of algorithm development, Web services publishing, workflow composition and execution for the demonstrative example are discussed

Keywords

Web services; geophysics computing; open systems; software reusability; storms; visual programming; W3C Web services; Web services publishing; Web services technologies; distributed environments; geospatial data processing; geospatial phenomena; heterogeneous environments; scientific workflow; software reuse; storm dynamics tracking; visual programming; weather radar data; workflow composition; workflow execution; Distributed computing; Geographic Information Systems; Grid computing; Meteorological radar; Open source software; Prototypes; Publishing; Radar tracking; Storms; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Grid and Cooperative Computing, 2006. GCC 2006. Fifth International Conference

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2694-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCC.2006.95

Filename

4031499