Abstract
BackgroundEffective environmental data management is meaningful for human health. In the past, environmental data management involved developing a specific environmental data management system, but this method often lacks real-time data retrieving and sharing/interoperating capability. With the development of information technology, a Geospatial Service Web method is proposed that can be employed for environmental data management. The purpose of this study is to determine a method to realize environmental data management under the Geospatial Service Web framework.MethodsA real-time GIS (Geographic Information System) data model and a Sensor Web service platform to realize environmental data management under the Geospatial Service Web framework are proposed in this study. The real-time GIS data model manages real-time data. The Sensor Web service platform is applied to support the realization of the real-time GIS data model based on the Sensor Web technologies.ResultsTo support the realization of the proposed real-time GIS data model, a Sensor Web service platform is implemented. Real-time environmental data, such as meteorological data, air quality data, soil moisture data, soil temperature data, and landslide data, are managed in the Sensor Web service platform. In addition, two use cases of real-time air quality monitoring and real-time soil moisture monitoring based on the real-time GIS data model in the Sensor Web service platform are realized and demonstrated. The total time efficiency of the two experiments is 3.7 s and 9.2 s.ConclusionsThe experimental results show that the method integrating real-time GIS data model and Sensor Web Service Platform is an effective way to manage environmental data under the Geospatial Service Web framework.
Highlights
Effective environmental data management is meaningful for human health
To demonstrate the proposed method for environmental data management, a Sensor Web Service Platform was implemented that supported the realization of the realtime GIS data model
A prototype of sensor web service platform A Sensor Web Service Platform consistent with the framework of Figure 2 was implemented with Sensor Web technologies by the Sensor Web group of Wuhan University, China [42,43]
Summary
Effective environmental data management is meaningful for human health. In the past, environmental data management involved developing a specific environmental data management system, but this method often lacks real-time data retrieving and sharing/interoperating capability. With the development of information technology, a Geospatial Service Web method is proposed that can be employed for environmental data management. The mission of GSW includes the following: 1) acquire global spatial data for all seasons, all days, and all directions using all kinds of sensors on satellite, aircraft, and ground surface; 2) chain the whole process seamlessly from sensors to application services using unified information networks, including satellite communication, data relay network, and wired or wireless computer communication networks; 3) register sensors, computing resources, storage resources, internet resources, manipulate software and spatial data on the internet, and process spatial data online quantitatively, automatically, intelligently, and in real time; and 4) provide geospatial services, compose virtual service chains and transmit user-required information in the most effective and efficient ways. Using GSW for real-time environmental data manage will help describe, organize, manage, manipulate, interchange, search, and release environmental data in a unified framework
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