Geoprocessing Community

Welcome to the 52°North Geoprocessing Community! We provide ready-to-use software as well as prototype implementations to enable processing of geo-data in Spatial Data Infrastructures.

Web Processing

This community is dedicated to:

• Web Processing Service (WPS): Allows the standardized and web-based processing of geodata.
• WPS-Udig Client: Enables uDig to perform geoprocessing on the web by means of an WPS.
• WPS-JumpClient: Enables Jump to perform geoprocessing on the web by means of an WPS.
• WPS Client API: Generic Java API for WPS requests.

Deploying these components in their current versions will enable you to:

• perform geoprocesses on the web in a standardized way
• integrate any WPS 1.0.0 complient Service in your standard uDig or Jump client.

Our main goals in developing these components were to:

• Compliance to existing standards.
• Flexibility to allow easy customization.
• Extensibility to grow with future requirements.

Check our SVN repositories for the latest developments in Geoprocessing.

Our Prospect

For the future, we will try to broaden our scope and will explore:

• Geoprocessing Workflow: Orchestrating Geoprocesses in cross-enterprise SOA environments
• GRID computing: Use the power of GRID networks for the purpose of complex geoprocessing
• Process integration: Wrapping existing desktop frameworks (GRASS, ArcGIS Server, FME, ILWIS,...) for use in SDIs.

For more information, please check the Geoprocessing mailing list or contact the Community Leader Bastian Schäffer (schaeffer @52north.org) or Theodor Foerster (foerster @52north.org).