Applications

The USGIN services may be implemented using a variety of different software platforms. In fact, one of the objectives of the service oriented architecture is to provide independence between data access protocols and the software used to implement that protocol.

In order to keep the cost of entry low, much of the development work thus far has utilized free open source software. Various commercial software package also offer attractive envnironments for implementing services. This page includes a listing of potentially useful software applications that USGIN participants have tried or are aware of.

Inclusion on this page is not a product endorsment but is provided as guide to learning about avaialable options. If you are aware of software that should be included in this list, please Submit a Content Suggestion and let us know about it (you must be registered and logged in to submit suggestions).

The Open Geospatial Consortium maintains a Registered Products page that provides an extensive listing of software applications implementing various OGC specifications.

Application Description

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com/)With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as...

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed under the Java...
http://tomcat.apache.org

CatalogConnector

CatalogConnector is an open source, Java based CSW client that can search multiple CSW catalogs and CSW implementation versions at once.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/catalogconnecto/
ISO 19139, OGC CSW

deegree

deegree is a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Its entire architecture is developed using standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC...
http://www.deegree.org
ISO 19115, ISO 19119, ISO 19139, OGC CSW, OGC WCS, OGC WFS, OGC WMS

Django

Django is an open source web application framework, written in Pytho
Django Homepage
IETF RFC 3986 - URI, ISO 19139

Drupal

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and...

DSpace

 DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories.  It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely...
DSpace Homepage

ESRI ArcExplorer

ESRI's ArcExplorer is a lightweight, no-cost GIS data viewer. Note that the .NET version of ArcExplorer is significantly different from the Java edition.

OGC CSW, OGC KML, OGC WFS, OGC WMS

ESRI ArcGIS Desktop GIS

ESRI's ArcGIS Desktop GIS application suit includes popular GIS applications such as ArcMap and ArcCatalog.
ESRI ArcGIS Desktop GIS
ISO 19139, OGC CSW, OGC WFS, OGC WMS

ESRI ArcGIS Server

ArcGIS Server is ESRI's network- and webservice-centric GIS application suite. Among other, ArcGIS Server offers WMS, WFS, WFS-T, WCS, and KML service capability as well as web application SDKs for...

ISO 19115, ISO 19119, ISO 19139, OGC CSW, OGC GML, OGC KML, OGC WFS, OGC WMS

ESRI Geoportal

ESRI's Geoportal is an open-source metadata catalog system capable of providing an OGC CSW Service. Due to its good documentation and relatively easy workflow for handling custom metadata profiles,...

OGC CSW

GeoNetwork

"GeoNetwork opensource is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an embedded interactive web map viewer...

ISO 19115, ISO 19139, OGC CSW

Geoserver

GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source...
http://geoserver.org
CGI GeoSciML, OGC GML, OGC KML, OGC WCS, OGC WFS, OGC WMS

GI-cat

GI-cat is an implementation of distributed catalog services made by ESSI Lab: Allows clients to discover and evaluate geoinformation resources over a federation of data sources; Allows...
http://zeus.pin.unifi.it/cgi-bin/twiki/view/GIcat/WebHome
ISO 19139, OGC CSW, OGC WCS, OGC WFS, OGC WMS

GI-go GeoBrowser

GI-go is a graphical desktop client developed to easily demonstrate the capabilities of the GI-cat catalog service. User make distributed queries based on common search criteria (where, when, who,...
http://zeus.pin.unifi.it/cgi-bin/twiki/view/GIgo/WebHome
ISO 19139, OGC CSW, OGC WCS, OGC WFS, OGC WMS

PostgreSQL and PostGIS

PostgreSQLPostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for...

Python

Python is a programing language which is handy for creating metadata extract, transform, and load (ETL) scripts.

THREDDS server

THREDDS server is a Tomcat Servlet that uses a file based data store to expose grid/raster multidimensional data in NetCDF  through OpenDAP or WCS

OGC WCS, THREDDS

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VisTrails scientific workflow

See http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/Main_Page#VisTrails_Overview.   VisTrails is an open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system developed at the University of Utah that...
VisTrails Home Page
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