Links and Resources
| Site: | Geoinformatics - University of Salzburg | 
| Course: | Spatial Representations and Spatial Data Infrastructures | 
| Book: | Links and Resources | 
| Printed by: | Guest user | 
| Date: | Friday, 31 October 2025, 8:28 AM | 
1. WPS overview
The Web Processing Service allows for distributed processing of geospatial (and any other) data, remotely from the client, at a server.
The current WPS specification is available from http://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/14-065/14-065.html
http://cite.opengeospatial.org/pub/cite/files/edu/wps/text/basic-main.html
2. XML-based requests
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explore http://geoprocessing.demo.52north.org/wps/test_client
3. Drilling deeper ...
To better understand practical implementation issues of WPS, follow this slide presentation on WPS (do not worry if you do not fully understand every detail):
The Web Processing Service Standard - Benjamin Proß
4. Tutorial: implementing a WPS service
http://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/get-started/windows/tutorial-publishing-a-wps-service.htm