期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2010
卷号：XXXVIII Part 4
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：Geoprocessing functions are important for discovering hidden and useful geospatial information, and are widely used in Earthscience modeling and applications. The growth of the Web has resulted in the Web-based sharing of large volumes of distributedgeospatial data and computational resources. Processing heterogeneous and distributed data into information requires a powerful,scalable, and interoperable information infrastructure. The emergence of Cloud Computing technology brings a new computingInformation Technology (IT) infrastructure to general users. Using these Cloud Computing platforms, typical IT resources such asstorage, computing utilities, and database are available as services. This paper presents an implementation of geoprocessing servicethat integrates geoprocessing functions and Microsoft Cloud Computing technologies to provide geoprocessing capabilities in adistributed environment. The integration combines the conventional powerful geospatial analysis functions with the scalable CloudComputing technology to provide Web-based geoprocessing functionalities. Challenges and approaches on the integration arediscussed. The implementation is demonstrated in the Microsoft Cloud Computing Platform – Azure
