Service-oriented applications for environmental models: Reusable geospatial services

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 182-198

  Granell, Carlos ^a   Díaz, Laura ^a   Gould, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Application and service integration; Environmental models; Geospatial processing services; Service reuse; Service oriented architecture, SOA; Spatial data infrastructure, SDI

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; GEO-SPATIAL; SERVICE INTEGRATION; SERVICE REUSE; SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTEROPERABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; WEB SERVICES;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GIS; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 74249113422     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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