Cloud Computing technologies and cloud-based Geographic Information Systems have became widely used in recent decades. However, the complexity and size of geospatial datasets remains growing and sometimes become going out of the cloud infrastructure paradigm. Additionally, many of currently used client devices have sufficient computational resources to store and process some amounts of data directly. Consequently, multilevel management techniques are demanded that support capabilities of horizontal (client-to-client) data flows in addition to vertical (cloud-to-client) data flows. These tendencies in information technologies (in general) have led to the appearance of Fog Computing paradigm that extends a cloud infrastructure with the computational resources of client devices and implements client-side data storage, management and interchange. This position paper summarizes and discusses mentioned tendencies in connection with a number of available Open Geospatial Consortium standards. The paper highlights the standards, which can be recognized as the platform for the Fog Computing implementation into geospatial domain, and analyzing their strong and weak features from the Fog Computing point of view. The analysis is built upon author's experience in implementation of the client-side geospatial Web services.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)171-174
Number of pages4
JournalInternational Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
Volume42
Issue number3W2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Nov 2017
Event37th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2017 - Tshwane, South Africa
Duration: 8 May 201712 May 2017

    Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Geography, Planning and Development

    Research areas

  • Geospatial data interoperability, Geospatial fog computing, Geospatial web services, Open source standards for geospatial

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