Standardized web-based geo-processing
The 52°North Web Processing Service enables the deployment of geo-processes on the web in a standardized way. It features a pluggable architecture for processes and data encodings.
The 52°North WPS implements the OGC WPS specification.
Features
- General Features
- Full java-based Open Source implementation.
- Pluggable framework for algorithms and XML data handling and processing frameworks
- Build up on robust libraries (JTS, geotools, xmlBeans, servlet API, derby)
- Supports full logging of service activity
- Supports exception handling according to the spec
- Storing of execution results
- Full maven support
- Clients
- Basic client implementation for accessing the WPS (including the complete XML encoding)
- WPS Invocation
- Synchronous/Asynchronous invocation
- Raw data support
- Supports HTTP-GET
- Supports HTTP-POST
- Supported WPS Datatypes (selection)
- GeoTiff Support
- ArcGrid Support
- Full GML2 support for ComplexData
- Full GML3 support for ComplexData
- Shapefiles
- KML
- WKT
- (Geo-)JSON
- Extensions
- WPS4R – R Backend
- GRASS out of the box extension
- 220+ SEXTANTE Processes
- Web GUI to maintain the service
- ArcGIS Server Connector
- Result Storage
- All Results can be stored as simple web accessible resource with an URL
- Raster/Vector results can be stored directly as WMS layer
- Vector results can be stored directly as WFS layer
- Raster results can be stored directly as WCS layer