GES 772 - Geospatial Web Services and Interoperability

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This course focuses on the key web technologies used for publishing and orchestrating web services. Topics covered include proprietary and open-source tools, network communications protocols, industry standardization efforts, and the overarching system design principle of services-oriented architecture (SOA). Students will develop a number of web-delivered data, visualization, analysis, and application services over the course of the semester using ArcGIS Server, SOAP, XML, GML, Google Earth/KML, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and IBM WebSphere. Issues of data interoperability are examined via case-method learning.