Design of GridGIS Architecture

Development of Geographic Information System Architecture Feature Analysis and Evolution Trend Research

“…But, the later emerged Web GIS can realize the connections between systems by its flexible service-oriented architecture, but when facing intensive GIS data, it will meet some problems such as loading imbalance [82,83]. The appearance of the grid technique brings hope for solving this problem, in which grid calculation provides high-performance parallel computation, and offers effective colony and load balancing through resource sharing, indicating the route to thoroughly realize the GIS common interconnection [64,82,84,85]. The architecture of grid GIS also exhibits a diverse development trend with the ongoing advancement of technology, in which the current standard grid GIS architectures have the "middleware-based technique" grid architecture, three-layer grid GIS architecture, and five-layer grid GIS architecture [82,86,87].…”

“…Moreover, there are some other architectures, for example, a "two-dimensional dual GIS grid architecture" that focuses more on the characteristics of GIS systems proposed by Xianying Pan, which views the GIS grid architecture as two-dimensional and divides it into a base layer, a distributed database layer, a network operating system intermediate layer, and an application service layer [82]. Wu et al suggested a "Service-Oriented Grid GIS architecture" to solve problems with GIS integration, cooperation, and resource sharing [85,89]. It can also be divided into four layers: a resource layer, a monitoring layer, an interface layer, and a client layer.…”