Notice of RetractionGIS software architecture based on SOA concept and OGC standards

Today GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications are mainly hurt both from interoperability problems between internal software components and poor support of real enterprise requirements. Despite considerable efforts for improving current approaches on GIS application development in recent years, there has been no specific attempt to solve this problem in an integrated manner, covering GIS applications interoperability and business alignment concerns together. This paper offers a high level approach with some useful patterns to overcome this challenge and introduce a minimum architecture for it. The key is to bring together the valuable unification of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. The most obvious difference between this study and various activities which uses these two components together is evolving around the idea that SOA would not be considered as a utility for better GIS application development. SOA is considered as the base conceptual architecture in this study which not only solves the GIS development concerns but also meets real enterprise needs. Also the architecture tries to apply OGC specifications as much as possible for interoperability and agility concerns because of its common-acceptance in the GIS industry.