Presentation at the workshop "Models for scientific exploitation of EO Data" organised by the HMA Architecture Working Group

1. WPS Application Patterns
at the Workshop “Models For Scientific Exploitation Of EO Data”
ESRIN, October 2012
Albert Remke & Daniel Nüst
52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH
d.nuest@52north.org

3. BIG
DATA

4. S C I E N C E
theoretical
investigation
laboratory
experiment
simulation/
computation

6. What is processing?
Output Data
Process
Input Data
control
Definition

7. What is web-based Processing?
Output Data
Process
Input Data
control
Definition

8. What is web-based Processing?
Processing
Environment
Backend
control
Output Data
Sources
Input Data
Sources
Store / Load
Exchange
Process
Process
Process
Process

9. Application Patterns
Sharing
Knowledge
Sharing
Processes

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11. Web Processing Services
Application
Output Data
Web
Processing
Service
Data
Service
Input Data
Data
Service
control
Organisation

12. Web Processing Services
Organisation Organisation
Application
Output Data
Web
Processing
Service
Data
Service
Input Data
Data
Service
control
Organisation

13. Web Processing Services
Organisation Organisation
Application
Output Data
Web
Processing
Service
Data
Service
Input Data
Data
Service
control
Organisation
Integration
Lazyness
Comparison
Efficiency
Sharing
Reusability
Independence

14. Deployment Use Cases
Process external
data sources in your
local environment.
D)
Process external
data sources in an
external environment
A) C)
local remote
Processes
remote
local
Spatial
Data
Everything‘s
local
B)
Process your
local data in an
external environment

15. Moving Code
Process*
Environment A Environment B
* functional description, platform description, hardware description/infrastructure,
explotation rights/licenses/terms of use, …

16. Moving Code Packages

17. Streaming
Data Processing
Environment
Process
t
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Output
Output
Output
Output
Output
Foerster, Schäffer, G.Carillo

18. Control Layer
Processing
Environment
Data
(local, large)
control Output
C Scripts
controlled by
Python Control
Layer
Local/Monolithic/Legacy
Software
ScSrcipritpt ScSricprtipt
client
HTTP
Standardized

19. Enabling Generic Views
Web based control (mobile)
Processing
Environment
Online Data
Sources
Process
Output
Document
Real-time Data
Sources
PrPorcoecsesss

20. Wrapping Script Language
WPS4R

24. 52°North does applied research and …
Communities
Company
Long Term License Management
Code Repositories
is a dissemination platform
is a service center
is a collaboration network
http://52north.org/about/partners/
GENESIS
OSIRIS
UncertWeb
INTAMAP
DETECT
GeoViQua
OWS

25. Collaboration
Communities
Ilwis
Geoprocessing
Earth Observation
http://52north.org/about/partners/
Geostatistics
3D
Metadata Management
Security
Semantics
Sensor Web

26. standard
client
server
implementation

28. http://xkcd.com/927/

29. Challenges
Exchangeability and Interoperability of Processes
Identifier Problem
Granularity
Lingua Franca for Processes across Domains?
Security
Reusability | Scalability | Performance
Documentation and Discovery

30. Talk to me about …
Data Quality (Modelling, Visualisation, Review)
Open Data
Citizen Science
Sensor Web
Questions?
http://geoviqua.geolabel.questionpro.com

32. One more thing…
http://geoviqua.geolabel.questionpro.com
Deadline:
20th of October 2012

33. Report Generation - Example

34. ArcGIS Client

35. INTAMAP
• INTeroperability and Automated MAPping
• “backend” R package
– http://www.intamap.org/intamap-package.php
• WPS Server
• O&M Input
• Clients
– JAVA API
– Stand-alone: http://www.intamap.org/tryGenericClient.php