The Research on Service-Oriented Geospatial Portal

Traditional methods of application development through tightly coupled components can no longer satisfy increased demands and urgently needed geospatial applications. In this paper, service-oriented architecture and spatial Web services are utilized to design and develop a geospatial portal. Geospatial portals use Web services to publish available geospatial data and processing services, help applications find them and invoke services or retrieve data. It enables geoprocessing interoperability that makes it possible to exchange heterogeneous geographic information content and share a wide variety of geospatial services over the World Wide Web. This article describes the architecture, development and deployment related to the portal.