<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Flood protection is one of several disciplines where geospatial data is very important and is a crucial component. Its management, processing and sharing form the foundation for their efficient use; therefore, special attention is required in the development of effective, precise, standardized, and interoperable models for the discovery and publishing of data on the Web. This paper describes the design of a methodology to discover Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services on the Web and collect descriptive information, i.e., metadata in a geocatalogue. A pilot implementation of the proposed methodology - Geocatalogue of geospatial information provided by OGC services discovered on Google (hereinafter “Geocatalogue”) - was used to search for available resources relevant to the area of flood protection. The result is an analysis of the availability of resources discovered through their metadata collected from the OGC services (WMS, WFS, etc.) and the resources they provide (WMS layers, WFS objects, etc.) within the domain of flood protection.</p></abstract>

Flood protection is one of several disciplines where geospatial data is very important and is a crucial component. Its management, processing and sharing form the foundation for their efficient use; therefore, special attention is required in the development of effective, precise, standardized, and interoperable models for the discovery and publishing of data on the Web. This paper describes the design of a methodology to discover Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services on the Web and collect descriptive information, i.e., metadata in a geocatalogue. A pilot implementation of the proposed methodology - Geocatalogue of geospatial information provided by OGC services discovered on Google (hereinafter “Geocatalogue”) - was used to search for available resources relevant to the area of flood protection. The result is an analysis of the availability of resources discovered through their metadata collected from the OGC services (WMS, WFS, etc.) and the resources they provide (WMS layers, WFS objects, etc.) within the domain of flood protection.

Geospatial Information Relevant to the Flood Protection Available on The Mainstream Web

Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes of the National Research Council of Italy, Via Mario Bianco, 9, 20131 Milan, Italy

Department of Theoretical Geodesy, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 11, 813 68, Bratislava, Slovakia

Department of Mapping and Land Consolidation, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 11, 813 68, Bratislava, Slovakia

Department of Landscape Planning and Ground Design, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Tulipánová 7, 949 76, Nitra, Slovakia.

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering

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Flood protection is one of several disciplines where geospatial data is very important and is a crucial component. Its management, processing and sharing form...

Geospatial Information Relevant to the Flood Protection Available on The Mainstream Web

Publié en ligne: 12 avr. 2014

Pages: 9 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjce-2014-0002

Mots clés
Discovery, geospatial data, metadata, OGC services, geocatalogue, flood protection

© Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Geospatial Information Relevant to the Flood Protection Available on The Mainstream Web

Publié en ligne: 12 avr. 2014

Pages: 9 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjce-2014-0002

Mots clésDiscovery, geospatial data, metadata, OGC services, geocatalogue, flood protection

© Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Mots clés
Discovery, geospatial data, metadata, OGC services, geocatalogue, flood protection