Geographic Information System (GIS) for Various Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, an increasing number of geographic information applications have been moved from stand-alone applications to applications requiring online collaboration. The advances in web services and service-oriented architectures have significantly improved the transformation process. At present, although international standards for geographic information services (i.e., web map services and web processing services) and advanced geographic information cloud computing platforms (, i.e., Google Earth engine and PIE engine) have emerged, challenges still remain for non-expert users. On the one hand, most of the current commercial software and open-source software focus on the release of geospatial data web services and less on the release of geoprocessing services. Therefore, how to quickly publish processing models of related fields such as web geoprocessing services is difficult for non-expert users. On the other hand, the collaboration and quality monitoring of web geoprocessing services are more complicated. Recently, the development of technologies such as knowledge graphs, cloud computing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence has further promoted the progress and application of web geoprocessing services. This Special Issue aims to provide the latest and future directions in web geoprocessing services, models, and systems.

Dr. Huaqiao Xing
Dr. Dongyang Hou
Guest Editors

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