An Approach to Securely Interconnect Geo Web Services

Web Services play a growing role in the geographic community. Efforts to establish a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) are coordinated by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). However, as the infrastructure gets established, and more content providers wish to offer their products, questions of security arise.

Geographical services often stand to gain tremendously from composition and delegation of requests, where one piece of data is constructed from several sets of data, using different sources. However, current standards by the OGC regulate only message transfers, without taking considerations of access control, security and privacy into account.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Dept. of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Römerstr. 164, 53117, Bonn, Germany

   Adrian Spalka & Stefan Schulz

Editors and Affiliations

1. Texas State University, San Marcos, TX,  

   Anne H. H. Ngu

2. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, 153-8505, Tokyo, Japan

   Masaru Kitsuregawa

3. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

   Erich J. Neuhold

4. IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, 10598, New York, Yorktown Heights, USA

   Jen-Yao Chung

5. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Sydney, Australia

   Quan Z. Sheng

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