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Task-oriented Sensor Web data processing for environmental monitoring

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With the rapid development of geospatial service and sensor technologies, large volumes of geospatial data have been collected using various sensor networks, and accessible on the Web. Traditional geospatial data processing could be task-oriented, since a geoprocessing task can be described by a set of action steps, implemented as a workflow, and executed using distributed geoprocessing services. Tasks facilitate the expression of user requirements and capture the problem solving knowledge of users. In this paper, the task-oriented approach is extended to the OGC Sensor Web environment. It highlights how the event-driven technologies adopted by the Sensor Web can be leveraged with geoprocessing workflows to support environment monitoring tasks. The proposal of a Task Model Language (TaskML) and task trigger mechanism allows environmental events to be plugged into an existing model builder, GeoJModelBuilder. Tasks can be created in a stepwise manner, and their execution priority can be updated automatically using triggers. Compared to the traditional “reactive” task enactment mode, the trigger-augmented task can support “active” environmental monitoring. Use cases on PM2.5/PM10 monitoring demonstrate the applicability of the approach.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions. The work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB707105), National Natural Science Foundation of China (91438203 and 41271397), Hubei Science and Technology Support Program (2014BAA087), and Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research Jiangxi Normal University Ministry of Education (JXS-EW-08).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, China

    Lei Hu, Peng Yue, Mingda Zhang, Jianya Gong & Liangcun Jiang

  2. Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China

    Lei Hu

  3. Computer School, Wuhan University, 299 Bayi Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 4300072, China

    Xining Zhang

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Communicated by: Rahul Ramachandran

Published in the Special Issue of Intelligent GIServices with Guest Editors Dr. Peng Yue, Dr. Rahul Ramachandran and Dr. Peter Baumann

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Hu, L., Yue, P., Zhang, M. et al. Task-oriented Sensor Web data processing for environmental monitoring. Earth Sci Inform 8, 511–525 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-015-0235-1

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