Web-Based Geospatial Services

2010 ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Iftikhar U. Sikder ◽  
Aryya Gangopadhyay ◽  
Nikhil V. Shampur
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Collaborative Modeling ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Geospatial Services ◽  
Core Functionality

This chapter characterizes the requirements of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) middleware and its components for dynamic registering and discovering of spatial services specifically for collaborative modeling in environmental planning. The chapter explores the role of Web services with respect to implementation standard and protocols and identifies implementation features for exposing distributed GIS business logic and components via Web services. In particular, the chapter illustrates applications of the interoperability specifications of Open GIS Consortium’s (OGC) Web Mapping Service and (WMS), Web Processing Standards (WPS) with respect to implementation feature. The chapter demonstrates a prototype implementation of collaborative environmental decision support systems (GEO-ELCA- Exploratory Land Use Change Assessment) where Web service-enabled middleware adds core functionality to a Web mapping service. The application demonstrates how individual workspace-based namespaces can be used to perform Web mapping functionality (such as spatial analysis in visualization) through the integration of environmental simulation models to explore collective planning scenario. Built on OGC compliant connector and supports WMS and WPS, the system includes interactive supports for geospatial data query, mapping services and visualization tools for multi-user transactions.

Web-Based Geospatial Services

2013 ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iftikhar U. Sikder ◽  
Aryya Gangopadhyay ◽  
Nikhil V. Shampur
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Collaborative Modeling ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Geospatial Services ◽  
Core Functionality

This chapter characterizes the requirements of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) middleware and its components for dynamic registering and discovering of spatial services specifically for collaborative modeling in environmental planning. The chapter explores the role of Web services with respect to implementation standard and protocols and identifies implementation features for exposing distributed GIS business logic and components via Web services. In particular, the chapter illustrates applications of the interoperability specifications of Open GIS Consortium’s (OGC) Web Mapping Service and (WMS), Web Processing Standards (WPS) with respect to implementation feature. The chapter demonstrates a prototype implementation of collaborative environmental decision support systems (GEO-ELCA- Exploratory Land Use Change Assessment) where Web service-enabled middleware adds core functionality to a Web mapping service. The application demonstrates how individual workspace-based namespaces can be used to perform Web mapping functionality (such as spatial analysis in visualization) through the integration of environmental simulation models to explore collective planning scenario. Built on OGC compliant connector and supports WMS and WPS, the system includes interactive supports for geospatial data query, mapping services and visualization tools for multi-user transactions.

Web Service Interfaces for Design Repositories

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Shaffer ◽  
Joseph B. Kopena ◽  
William C. Regli
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Search Algorithms ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Core Functionality

Reuse of design knowledge is an important goal in engineering design, and has received much attention. A substantial set of algorithms, methodology, and developed systems exist which support various aspects of this goal. However, the majority of these systems are built around a particular user interface, often some form of Web-based repository portal. The work described here presents search and other core functionality as web services rather than a monolithic repository system. These services may then be employed by a variety of applications, integrating them into interfaces familiar to the designer, extending functionality, streamlining their use, and enabling them to be employed throughout the design process. This paper demonstrates this approach by wrapping previously developed repository search algorithms as web services, and then using these within a plug-in for an existing commercial CAD environment. Based on issues encountered in developing this demonstration, this paper also discusses the challenges and potential approaches toward a more general, widespread application of web services in engineering design.

scholarly journals OPEN SOURCE WEB-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR DISSEMINATING AND ANALYZING FLOOD HAZARD INFORMATION AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W7 ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
M. M.-M.-Santillan ◽  
J. R. Santillan ◽  
E. M. O. Morales
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Web Mapping

We discuss in this paper the development, including the features and functionalities, of an open source web-based flood hazard information dissemination and analytical system called “Flood EViDEns”. Flood EViDEns is short for “Flood Event Visualization and Damage Estimations”, an application that was developed by the Caraga State University to address the needs of local disaster managers in the Caraga Region in Mindanao, Philippines in accessing timely and relevant flood hazard information before, during and after the occurrence of flood disasters at the community (i.e., barangay and household) level. The web application made use of various free/open source web mapping and visualization technologies (GeoServer, GeoDjango, OpenLayers, Bootstrap), various geospatial datasets including LiDAR-derived elevation and information products, hydro-meteorological data, and flood simulation models to visualize various scenarios of flooding and its associated damages to infrastructures. The Flood EViDEns application facilitates the release and utilization of this flood-related information through a user-friendly front end interface consisting of web map and tables. A public version of the application can be accessed at <a href="http://121.97.192.11:8082/"target="_blank">http://121.97.192.11:8082/</a>. The application is currently expanded to cover additional sites in Mindanao, Philippines through the “Geo-informatics for the Systematic Assessment of Flood Effects and Risks for a Resilient Mindanao” or the “Geo-SAFER Mindanao” Program.

OpenPlanetaryMap Updates: Planetary Basemaps and Geocoding Web Services

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Manaud ◽  
Jérôme Gasperi ◽  
Andrea Nass ◽  
Stephan van Gasselt ◽  
Angelo Pio Rossi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Web Services ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
General Public ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Platform Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
System 1

&lt;p&gt;OpenPlanetaryMap (OPM) is a collaborative project to build the first Open Planetary Mapping and Social platform for researchers, educators, storytellers, and the general public. We want to make it easy for anyone to create and share maps and locations on any planets or bodies in our Solar System [1].&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our platform architecture is based on four main service-oriented components: (1) an open repository of geospatial &lt;em&gt;datasets&lt;/em&gt;; containing information used to create basemaps and to enable location-based searches, (2) &lt;em&gt;basemaps&lt;/em&gt; that are needed to build any types of web mapping applications or geospatial data visualisation, (3) geocoding and geo-referencing &lt;em&gt;APIs/web services&lt;/em&gt; to enable location-based searches and crowdsourcing of our datasets repository, (4) Web app, Python module and CLI &lt;em&gt;interfaces&lt;/em&gt; to search, add and share places on planetary bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the project started as an initiative funded by Europlanet in 2017, we have consolidated our network of collaborators and we published our first planetary basemaps and design concept [2]. Instructions on how to use our basemaps are available from our new website [3]. External projects have started to use OPM basemaps, for example: PLANMAP Stories [4] and CaSSIS Map Interface [5]. While we continue to improve our basemaps and create new ones, we have been working on providing an open planetary geocoding API/web service and user interfaces.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of our planetary geocoding API is to provide a common and consistent way of defining and searching for places on the surface of bodies in the Solar System, including the Earth. We are first implementing our geocoding API as a JavaScript module, along with our first web map interface that demonstrates its use. We will then focus on implementing our geocoding API as a Python module.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We introduce the project and present recent updates on OPM planetary basemaps, geocoding APIs and user interfaces.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] Manaud et al. (2018). OpenPlanetaryMap: Building the first Open Planetary Mapping and Social platform for researchers, educators, storytellers, and the general public. European Planetary Science Congress 2018, 12, EPSC2018-78. [2] Nass et al. (2019). Towards a new face for Planetary Maps: Design and web- based Implementation of Planetary Basemaps. Adv. Cartogr. GIScience Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 1, 15, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-adv-1-15-2019 [3] http://openplanetarymap.org [4] https://stories.planmap.eu/mars/gale [5] http://cassis.halimede.unibe.ch&lt;/p&gt;

OpenPlanetaryMap Updates: Planetary Basemaps and Geocoding Web Services

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Manaud ◽  
Jérome Gasperi ◽  
Andrea Nass ◽  
Stephan van Gasselt ◽  
Angelo Pio Rossi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Web Services ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
General Public ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Platform Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
System 1

&lt;p&gt;We introduce the project and present recent updates on OPM planetary basemaps, geocoding APIs and user interfaces.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;OpenPlanetaryMap (OPM) is a collaborative project to build the first Open Planetary Mapping and Social platform for researchers, educators, storytellers, and the general public. We want to make it easy for anyone to create and share maps and locations on any planets or bodies in our Solar System [1].&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Our platform architecture is based on four main service-oriented components: (1) an open repository of geospatial &lt;em&gt;datasets&lt;/em&gt;; containing information used to create basemaps and to enable location-based searches, (2) &lt;em&gt;basemaps&lt;/em&gt; that are needed to build any types of web mapping applications or geospatial data visualisation, (3) geocoding and geo-referencing &lt;em&gt;APIs/web services&lt;/em&gt; to enable location-based searches and crowdsourcing of our datasets repository, (4) Web app, Python module and CLI &lt;em&gt;interfaces&lt;/em&gt; to search, add and share places on planetary bodies.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Since the project started as an initiative funded by Europlanet in 2017, we have consolidated our network of collaborators and we published our first planetary basemaps and design concept [2]. Instructions on how to use our basemaps are available from our new website [3]. External projects have started to use OPM basemaps, for example: PLANMAP Stories [4] and CaSSIS Map Interface [5]. While we continue to improve our basemaps and create new ones, we have been working on providing an open planetary geocoding API/web service and user interfaces.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The purpose of our planetary geocoding API is to provide a common and consistent way of defining and searching for places on the surface of bodies in the Solar System, including the Earth. We are first implementing our geocoding API as a JavaScript module, along with our first web map interface that demonstrates its use. We will then focus on implementing our geocoding API as a Python module.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;[1] Manaud et al. (2018). OpenPlanetaryMap: Building the first Open Planetary Mapping and Social platform for researchers, educators, storytellers, and the general public. European Planetary Science Congress 2018, 12, EPSC2018-78. [2] Nass et al. (2019). Towards a new face for Planetary Maps: Design and web- based Implementation of Planetary Basemaps. Adv. Cartogr. GIScience Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 1, 15, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-adv-1-15-2019 [3] http://openplanetarymap.org [4] https://stories.planmap.eu/mars/gale [5] http://cassis.halimede.unibe.ch&lt;/p&gt;

The Role of Web Based Accounting Online System 2.0 as the Company's Income and Expense Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Nur Azizah ◽  
Dedeh Supriyanti ◽  
Siti Fairuz Aminah Mustapha ◽  
Holly Yang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Bank Account ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Online System ◽  
Version 2.0 ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Company

In a company, the process of income and expense of money must have a profit-generating goal base. The success of financial management within the company, can be monitored from the ability of the financial management in managing the finances and utilize all the opportunities that exist with as much as possible with the aim to control the company's cash (cash flow) and the impact of generating profits in accordance with expectations. With a web-based online accounting system version 2.0, companies can be given the ease to manage money in and out of the company's cash. It has a user friendly system with navigation that makes it easy for the financial management to use it. Starting from the creation of a company's cash account used as a cash account and corporate bank account on the system, deletion or filing of cash accounts, up to the transfer invoice creation feature, receive and send money. Thus, this system is very effective and efficient in the management of income and corporate cash disbursements.   Keywords:​Accounting Online System, Financial Management, Cash and Bank

eMap: A Web Application for Identifying and Visualizing Electron or Hole Hopping Pathways in Proteins

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslan N. Tazhigulov ◽  
James R. Gayvert ◽  
Melissa Wei ◽  
Ksenia B. Bravaya
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Shortest Paths ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Decay Parameter ◽  
Electron Hole ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Aromatic Amino Acid Residue ◽  
Pathways Model ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Effective Decay

<p>eMap is a web-based platform for identifying and visualizing electron or hole transfer pathways in proteins based on their crystal structures. The underlying model can be viewed as a coarse-grained version of the Pathways model, where each tunneling step between hopping sites represented by electron transfer active (ETA) moieties is described with one effective decay parameter that describes protein-mediated tunneling. ETA moieties include aromatic amino acid residue side chains and aromatic fragments of cofactors that are automatically detected, and, in addition, electron/hole residing sites that can be specified by the users. The software searches for the shortest paths connecting the user-specified electron/hole source to either all surface-exposed ETA residues or to the user-specified target. The identified pathways are ranked based on their length. The pathways are visualized in 2D as a graph, in which each node represents an ETA site, and in 3D using available protein visualization tools. Here, we present the capability and user interface of eMap 1.0, which is available at https://emap.bu.edu.</p>

scholarly journals SWAN platform: A web-based tool to support the development of industrial solid waste reuse business models

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2198941
Author(s):  
Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis ◽  
George Arampatzis ◽  
Tryfonas Pieri ◽  
Konstantina Solomou ◽  
Panagiotis Dedousis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Matching Algorithm ◽  
Waste Reuse ◽  
Industrial Solid Waste ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Industrial Unit

The SWAN platform is an integrated suite of online resources and tools for assessing industrial symbiotic opportunities based on solid industrial waste reuse. It has been developed as a digital solid waste reuse platform and is already applied in four countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Cyprus). The SWAN platform integrates a database with the spatial and technical characteristics of industrial solid waste producers and potential consumers, populated with data from these countries. It also incorporates an inventory of commercially implemented best practices on solid industrial waste reuse. The role of the SWAN platform is to facilitate the development of novel business cases. Towards this end, decision support services, based on a suitable matching algorithm, are provided to the registered users, helping them to identify and assess potential novel business models, based on solid waste reuse, either for an individual industrial unit (source/potential receiver of solid waste) or a specific region.

scholarly journals Quantifying Media Effects, Its Content, and Role in Promoting Community Awareness of Chikungunya Epidemic in Bangladesh

Epidemiologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Mst. Marium Begum ◽  
Osman Ulvi ◽  
Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic ◽  
Mallory R. Walsh ◽  
Hasan Tarek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Vector Borne ◽  
Media Outlet ◽  
And Control

Background: Chikungunya is a vector-borne disease, mostly present in tropical and subtropical regions. The virus is spread by Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitos and symptoms include high fever to severe joint pain. Dhaka, Bangladesh, suffered an outbreak of chikungunya in 2017 lasting from April to September. With the goal of reducing cases, social media was at the forefront during this outbreak and educated the public about symptoms, prevention, and control of the virus. Popular web-based sources such as the top dailies in Bangladesh, local news outlets, and Facebook spread awareness of the outbreak. Objective: This study sought to investigate the role of social and mainstream media during the chikungunya epidemic. The study objective was to determine if social media can improve awareness of and practice associated with reducing cases of chikungunya. Methods: We collected chikungunya-related information circulated from the top nine television channels in Dhaka, Bangladesh, airing from 1st April–20th August 2017. All the news published in the top six dailies in Bangladesh were also compiled. The 50 most viewed chikungunya-related Bengali videos were manually coded and analyzed. Other social media outlets, such as Facebook, were also analyzed to determine the number of chikungunya-related posts and responses to these posts. Results: Our study showed that media outlets were associated with reducing cases of chikungunya, indicating that media has the potential to impact future outbreaks of these alpha viruses. Each media outlet (e.g., web, television) had an impact on the human response to an individual’s healthcare during this outbreak. Conclusions: To prevent future outbreaks of chikungunya, media outlets and social media can be used to educate the public regarding prevention strategies such as encouraging safe travel, removing stagnant water sources, and assisting with tracking cases globally to determine where future outbreaks may occur.

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