Building PROSAIL model simulation with Web services

DBMS (data base management system) plays an important role in administrating remote sensing data, and a lot of work has done. Today, building a spectrum database becomes easy through DBMS. Then, in Web-based spectrum database, how to access and display the data turns into the issue. A new way of Web-based model simulation is addressed in this paper. It provides three ways as parameters input, parameters filling in through Web, parameters upload from local and parameters extracting from the database. It also makes it easy to execute the model and to view the simulated results. A Web service is an interface that describes a collection of operations that are network accessible through standardized XML messaging. Based on Web services, we can integrate our model simulation with partners and clients in a fashion that is loosely coupled, simple, and platform independent.