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