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Achieving interoperability for integration of heterogeneous COTS geographic information systems

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Mahdi Abdelguerfi,

Jay J. RatcliffAuthors Info & Claims

GIS '02: Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems

Pages 162 - 167

https://doi.org/10.1145/585147.585182

Published: 08 November 2002 Publication History

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Using multiple commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) GIS suites is a common phenomenon, because different COTS products often have different strengths in various applications. On the other hand, deploying heterogeneous GIS software has the tendency to form fragmented data sets and to cause inconsistency. Data consolidation is an effective way to preserve data integrity. To accomplish this, we must achieve interoperability between different GIS tools. While vector spatial data have the standard database models to support interoperability, raster based images have been conventionally managed as files. Compared to the database approach, the file-based management for raster data is disadvantageous in terms of performance and flexibility. We implemented an adapter that allowed the file-based GIS tools to access the raster data storage in databases managed by a COTS software product. To integrate the COTS GIS into the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework, we have further enhanced this adapter and made it compliant to the J2EE Connector Architecture (J2EE-CA) standard. Using this kind of J2EE-CA adapter, any GIS can be managed by any J2EE server. The J2EE framework is an ideal foundation for building enterprise-wide geographic information systems.

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GIS '02: Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems

November 2002

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DOI:10.1145/585147

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Florida International University, USA
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Freie Universität Berlin
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Florida International University, USA

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1869890.1869893
Kou YLu CGodrej AGrizzard TPost H(2005)A Web-based Data Visualization and Analysis System for Watershed ManagementAnnals of GIS10.1080/1082400050948059911:1(40-49)Online publication date: Jun-2005
https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000509480599
Juric RBeus-Dukic L(2005)COTS components and DB interoperabilityProceedings of the 4th international conference on COTS-Based Software Systems10.1007/978-3-540-30587-3_18(77-89)Online publication date: 7-Feb-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-540-30587-3_18
Tu SFlanagin MWu YAbdelguerfi MNormand EVenkata Mahadevan (2004)Design strategies to improve performance of GIS Web servicesInternational Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004.10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286692(444-448 Vol.2)Online publication date: 2004
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