GIS Web Services

IS Web Services pose an evolution of traditional standalone GIS applications set in desktop environments with database back-ends for storing data and they provide the components for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) [see Spatial Data Infrastructures]. GIS Web Services are self-contained application components that are published and accessed over the World Wide Web using standard protocols such as HTTP, SOAP, and XML. Each service performs a specific GIS function as part of a loosely coupled and distributed geographic application (also called a distributed GIS). The functionalities provided by GIS Web Services can be categorized in four basic categories: geographic data discovery, access, computation, and visualization. Additional functionality is required in order to orchestrate the interaction among several services in order to provide specific applications.

FRIIS-CHRISTENSEN Anders; 

2014-02-03

SAGE

JRC46576

9781412956970,    9781412939591,   

http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/geography/n519.xml,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC46576,   

10.4135/9781412939591,