DELIVERING GIS TRAINING USING GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICE – A CASE STUDY OF LANDSLIDE RISK MAPPING IN HONG KONG

This paper sketches a prototype of web-based landslide prediction service for delivering web-based training. The results show that the proposed landslide GWSC model can effectively compute the landslide risk level in different location, and consequently allow for early-warning, which starts with the sensor in the field and ending with user-opitmized warning messages and action advice.

A Sub-Chain Ranking and Recommendation Mechanism for Facilitating Geospatial Web Service Composition

With a huge volume of geospatial information being collected and a huge number of domain-specific functions being developed for processing these geospatial information, an increasing number of Open Geospatial Consortium Web services (OWSs) are built and being available on the Web for the accessibility and processing of these information. Given the specific requirement specified by a certain user, normally, a composition (or chain) of OWSs, rather than a single OWS, can fulfill this requirement. Consequently, retrieving and recommending sub-chains of possible service invocations is an important research challenge. Leveraging the semantic similarity between the name and text description of parameters, a degree that represents the invocation possibility between operations in OWSs is calculated. Thereafter, a service network model is constructed for capturing possible invocations between operations. Given a user's requirement which is represented in terms of a pair of initial and ending operations, possible sub-chains of operations are retrieved, ranked and recommended. Based on which the user can select the most appropriate sub-chain with respect to her specific requirement. The result of evaluation leveraging a real OWSs set indicates that our technique is applicable in real applications from both the functional and performance perspectives.

Model-driven geospatial web service composition

A lot of work has been done on the geospatial service composition to support advanced processing, spatial calculation, and invoking of heterogeneous data. However, the quality of service chain is rarely considered and the process model cannot be reused. A modeldriven way of geospatial web service composition is proposed in this work, the service composition is treated as an optimization problem by <i>GwcsFlow</i> model and dynamic binding mechanism. The case of facility location analysis is provided to demonstrate the improvements in geospatial service composition through optimization algorithms.