Geospatial Services and Applications for the Internet

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sample, John T. (Editor), Shaw, Kevin (Editor), Tu, Shengru (Editor), Abdelguerfi, Mahdi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Data structures (Computer science).; Database management.; Data mining.; Computer science.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Popular Computer Science.; Database Management.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

The use of geospatial technologies has become ubiquitous since the leading Internet vendors delivered a number of popular map websites. Today, businesses are either migrating location-specific capabilities into their information systems, or expanding existing Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) imp...

Table of Contents:

• Hierarchical Infrastructure for Internet Mapping Services
• Case Study : Geospatial Processing Services for Web based Hydrological Applications
• An application framework for rapid development for web based GIS : Ginis Web
• Geospatial Web Services : Bridging the Gap Between OGC and Web Services
• The Design, Implementation and operation of the JPL OnEarth WMS Server
• Data Integration for Querying Geospatial Sources
• Translating Vernacular Terms into Geographical Locations
• Personalizing Location-Aware Applications.