Hydrology and Earth System Sciences www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net 1027-5606 1607-7938 12 2 2008 10.5194/hess-12-635-2008 http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/12/635/2008/ http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/12/635/2008/hess-12-635-2008.html http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/12/635/2008/hess-12-635-2008.pdf 635 644 2008-03-25 Web services for distributed and interoperable hydro-information systems J. Horak jiri.horak@vsb.cz A. Orlik J. Stromsky Institute of Geoinformatics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava,17.listopadu 15, Ostrava-Poruba, 70833, Czech Republic Web services support the integration and interoperability of Web-based applications and enable machine-to-machine interaction. The concepts of web services and open distributed architecture were applied to the development of T-DSS, the prototype customised for web based hydro-information systems. T-DSS provides mapping services, database related services and access to remote components, with special emphasis placed on the output flexibility (e.g. multilingualism), where SOAP web services are mainly used for communication. The remote components are represented above all by remote data and mapping services (e.g. meteorological predictions), modelling and analytical systems (currently HEC-HMS, MODFLOW and additional utilities), which support decision making in water management. Anderson, M. P. and Woessner, W. W.: Applied Ground Water Modeling, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1992. Bedient, P. and Huber, W.: Hydrology and floodplain analysis, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, London, 763 pp., 2001. Beven, K.: Rainfall-runoff modelling, The Primer, John Wiley, London, 372 pp., 2002. Donchyts, G., Treebushny, D., Primachenko, A., Shlyahtun, N., and Zheleznyak, M.: The architecture and prototype implementation of the Model Environment system, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 4, 75–89, 2007. Dosyukov, S.: Distributed Information Systems. From A to Z. – Part I. Introduction., available at http://dn.codegear.com/article/30025, 2003. Erl, T.: Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services, Prentice Hall, 534 pp., 2004. Gijsbers, P. J., Brakkee, E., Brinkman, R., Gregersen, J. B., Hummel, S., and Westen, S.: The org. OpenMI. Standard interface specification, HarmonIT Document Series C, 1–69, 2004. Harbaugh, A.: MODFLOW–2005, the U.S. Geological Survey Modula ground-water model – the Ground-Water Flow Process: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6-A16, 2005. Horak, J. and Owsinski, J. W.: TRANSCAT project and prototype of DSS, in: Proceedings of the 10th EC-GIS workshop, Warszava, 23–25 June 2004, 1–11, 2004. Istok, J.: Groundwater Modeling by the Finite Element, Water Resources Monograph 13, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 495 pp., 1989. Kralisch, S. and Krause, P.: JAMS – A Framework for Natural Resource Model Development and Application, in: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Nice, France, 4–8 Sep 2006, 2356–2363, 2006. Maidment, D.: Handbook of Hydrology, 1st edition, McGraw Hill Professional, London, 1424 pp., 1993. Maidment, D. and Djokic, D.: Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling Support with Geographic Information Systems, ESRI Press, Redlands, 232 pp., 2000. Neteler, M. and Mitasova, H.: Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, 2nd edition, Springer, Boston, 2002. Nougeras-Iso, J., Medrano, P., Zarazaga-Soria, P.: Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures, Springer, Boston, 2005. Tylcer, O., Chaussee, D., Durakova, D., Eleftheriadou, E., Horak, J., Kochanek, K., Marsik, V., Mieseler, T., Owsinski, J., Rapantova, N., Rubbert, T., Unucka, J., and Vojtek, D.: Analysis of selected DSS for the water management, Report of the TRANSCAT project, VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, 134 pp., 2004. Vieux, B.: Distributed Hydrologic Modeling Using GIS, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 289 pp., 2004.