Needs and Architectural Strategies Related to Geospatial Information in Systems-of-Systems

Abstract

This paper puts forward the hypothesis that all systems-of-systems (SoS) need to deal with geospatial information. It discusses some fundamental aspects of such geodata, including entities, coordinate systems, features, and representation. It then presents how geodata can be used for various purposes in SoS and suggests architectural strategies for handling geodata in this context, including the use of linked data to represent both geodata and other information; triple stores for databases; and cloud servers for executing geodata related constituent system functionality.