Implantation of OGC geoprocessing services for Geoscience

This paper presents an investigation about the availability of standard geoprocessing services and its use in the geosciences domain. To do that, the web has been crawled in March 2011 to find the servers available conforming to the Web Processing Service interface specification published by the geospatial standards organization Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which gives support to standard Web-based geoprocessing. The research goals are (i) to provide a reality check of the availability of Web Processing Service servers, (ii) to provide quantitative data about the use of different features defined in the standard that are relevant for a scalable Geoprocessing Web (e.g. long-running processes, Web-accessible data outputs), and (iii) to test the capability for finding Web services in the geoscience domain.