WPS

Manually sorted list of Tech Notes (OpenEarth and external links)

• Using WPS as client
  • WPS Primer (using a web browser)
  • WPS Primer (using Matlab)
• Making server-side functions for later deployment a WPS server
  • Setting up a WPS process using PyWPS in Python
    • Make your desired functionality in a Python Notebook
    • Turn your functionality into a proper python function
    • Adhere to the function call convention
    • Ask someone with a WPS server to host it, or deploy one yourselves
  • Matlab WPS convention
• Hosting WPS as server for hosting server-side functions
  • Setting up pyWPS in a Windows environment
  • Setting up pyWPS in combination with wsgi and nginx
  • Setting up pyWPS in combination with gunicorn and nginx
• Online courses and other resources
  • Tutorial for beginners
  • pyWPS wiki spaces especially the data input/ouput
  • Home page and documentation
• Use cases:
  • WPS for EMODnet chemistry pyodv
  • WPS for tidal analysis pytide

Automatic tree of OpenEarth Tech Notes

Standard

• http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps

Available services

• Deltares test server
• 52North demo servers

Software: Servers

• http://52north.org/downloads/geoprocessing/wps (R backend http://52north.org/communities/geoprocessing/wps/tutorials/r/setup.html)
• http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/extensions/wps/index.html
• http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
• http://www.zoo-project.org/
• http://deegree3-demo.deegree.org/wps-workspace/ degree project
• http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WPS Grass integration
• http://rsg.pml.ac.uk/wps/index.html PML remote sensing group (mostly grass)

Software: Clients

• http://geopython.github.com/OWSLib/ Python library
• http://deegree3-testing.deegree.org/deegree-wps-webclient/ html interface
• http://www.kappasys.org/qgis/wps.zip Q-GIS plugin

Literature

• Case study for hydrology: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-387-74674-6_2?LI=true
• WPS for topography: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-69848-7_17?LI=true
• eHabitat, a multi-purpose WPS for ecological modeling: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815212002769
• Models as web services using the OGC WPS standard: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815212002812
• MSc Thesis Joost Boerboom Implementing the WPS Standard: Report and Defense ppt
• EU FP7 Netmar presentation at AGU 2012: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/apps/projects/logos/4/249024/080/deliverables/001_Ares2012561489D751AppendixASplinterPart4.pdf
• special issue of Elsevier's Computers & Geosciences: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00983004/47

Cases: Scrap notebook for WPS tidal case

• Setting up PyWPS in a Windows environment
• Setting up PyWPS in combination with Gunicorn and Nginx
• Setting up a WPS process using PyWPS

Online services for tidal predictions (model input)

• Rijkswaterstaat getij services: web-service http://www.rws.nl/rws/opendata/ en grafisch http://live.getij.nl/getij_locaties.cfm?taal=nl
• NOAA CO-OPS SOAP services for: High Low Tide Pred ad Tide Predictions
• FES99, FES2004 (world)
• OSU tidal data inversion (world)
• UK HO (UK+)
• NPC (UK)
• NOAA (USA) FAQ
• Pacific with Xtide
• BOM (Australia)
• NZ (New Zealand)
• links
• BSH (north sea, german bight)
• DelftDashBoard toolboxes
• http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/faq.html#60 Information on the purge after the UK HO legal threats.

Links

• http://web.vims.edu/physical/research/TCTutorial/tideanalysis.htm
• http://www.psmsl.org/train_and_info/software/analysis.php
• http://ilikai.soest.hawaii.edu/UHSLC/jasl.html
• http://www.gloss-sealevel.org/

Software

• Matlab: t_tide
• Matlab: Utide
• Python: Tappy
• Fortran: by John Hunter
• Executable: Xtide
• Executable: Fortran IOS Tidal Package by Mike Forman
• Executable: Delft3D-TIDE
• Executable: PSMSL/POL tidal analysis software TT4W

Online services for bathymetric data (model input)

• GEBCO
• Smith & Sandwell