Conference Paper
Abstract:
Standard In this talk, we will present the Web Processing Service (WPS) 2.0 standard that is planned to be released by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) shortly after FOSS4G-Europe 2014. We will describe the changes to the previous version of the standard (1.0.0) including:
• Improvements to the process description,
• Profiling mechanism for WPS processes,
• Changes to the WPS protocol, including synchronous and asynchronous invocation of processes and status monitoring,
• “Pluggable” process descriptions, and
• Improved conformance testing.
As a result of the modularization, the standard will contain several conformance classes which can be combined to tailor WPS implementations to various application scenarios. Users that run WPS 1.0 implementations will probably be interested in the planned BasicWPS, which, which bundles several modules of the new specification and is similar yet different to the previous version of the standard. Request/response examples will give the audience an exact picture of what a BasicWPS will look like. We will also describe the mechanisms that will allow domain experts to specify further extensions of the WPS core, e.g. to create a RESTful WPS, a WPS based on SensorML or a CoverageWPS. We will present the vendors planning on implementing the standard and a (possible) roadmap for creating an OGC Compliance Interoperability & Testing Evaluation (CITE) test suite that will eventually lead to certified compliant WPS 2.0 servers and also to reference implementations of the standard.
Presenter Biography:
Benjamin Pross received a Diploma Degree in Geoinformatics from the University of Muenster in 2010. Since then he works as a Software Engineer for the 52°North GmbH, the back office for the international 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software.
He leads the 52°North Geoprocessing Community and is the chair of the OGC Web Processing Service 2.0 Standards Working Group.
Matthias Mueller received a Diploma in Geography from Dresden Technical University in 2009. Since then he has been working as a research associate at that university with a focus on geospatial analysis, spatial data infrastructures and system integration. He is a member of the OGC Web Processing Service 2.0 Standards Working Group and editor of the coming WPS 2.0 standard.