A grid-enabled Web map server

Author

Aloisio, Giovanni ; Cafaro, Massimo ; Conte, Dario ; Fiore, Sandro ; Epicoco, Italo ; Marra, Gian Paolo ; Quarta, Gianvito

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Computational Technol., Lecce Univ., Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

4-6 April 2005

Firstpage

298

Abstract

Today Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide several tools for studying and analyzing varied human and natural phenomena, therefore GIS and geospatial data has grown so much in both public and private organizations. A challenge is the integration of these data to get innovative and exhaustive knowledge about topics of interest. In this paper we describe the design of a Web map service (WMS) OGC-compliant, through the use of grid computing technology and demonstrate how this approach can improve, w.r.t. security, performance, efficiency and scalability, the integration of geospatial multi-source data. End users, with a single sign-on, securely and transparently, gets maps whose data are distributed on heterogeneous data sources belonging to one or more Virtual Organizations via distributed queries in a grid computing environment.

Keywords

Internet; distributed databases; file servers; geographic information systems; grid computing; query processing; security of data; visual databases; GIS; OGC-compliant; data integration; distributed queries; geographic information systems; geospatial data; geospatial multisource data; grid computing technology; grid-enabled Web map server; heterogeneous data sources; security; virtual organizations; Application software; Computer architecture; Data security; Geographic Information Systems; Grid computing; Information analysis; Information security; Scalability; Service oriented architecture; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2005. ITCC 2005. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2315-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2005.12

Filename

1428478