SIGRE - An autonomic spatial information grid runtime environment for geo-computation

Abstract

Spatial Information Grid is a kind of application grid which tries to connect resources such as computer, data sources, and processing algorithms, and builds a distributed, robust, flexible and powerful infrastructure for geocomputation. It needs a powerful and easy-to-use running environment. In this paper, an autonomic runtime environment for geo-computation is proposed and named SIGRE -the Spatial Information Grid Runtime Environment. Based on it, SIG resources can be distributed, discovered, and matched autonomically. And a distributed, flexible and powerful data infrastructure which can distribute data with different types, different sources, and different goals in a uniform interface easily and flexibly is founded. Based on the implementation of SIGRE by java language, a SIG testbed is constructed, and the test on it shows that SIGRE can provide a powerful, easy-to-use, robust and autonomic runtime environment for SIG, and developers can develop SIG resources and SIG applications on SIGRE easily and quickly. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.