.. _appendix:

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Useful Links
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.. _appendix_wps_docs:

WPS Documentation
=================

.. Warning: outdated

* `What is WPS? <http://geoprocessing.info/wpsdoc/Concepts#what>`_
* `WPS on OSGeo Live <http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/doc-dev/standards/wps_overview.html>`_
* `WPS tutorial <http://wiki.ieee-earth.org/Documents/GEOSS_Tutorials/GEOSS_Provider_Tutorials/Web_Processing_Service_Tutorial_for_GEOSS_Providers/Section_2:_Introduction_to_WPS>`_
* `OGC Web Processing Service Standard <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps>`_
* `PyWPS Wiki <http://wiki.rsg.pml.ac.uk/pywps/Main_Page>`_
* `GeoServer tutorial <http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it/edu/en/wps/index.html>`_

Talks:

* `The WPS 2.0 standard (preliminary information) <http://www.slideshare.net/Bender82/2014-0715the-wps-20-standardpreliminary?related=2>`_
* `WPS Application Patterns <http://www.slideshare.net/nuest/wps-application-patterns?related=1>`_
* `Using WPS (PyWPS) with Taverna Orchestration <http://www.slideshare.net/JorgeMendesdeJesus/taverna?related=2>`_
* `Pywps a tutorial for beginners and developers <http://www.slideshare.net/JorgeMendesdeJesus/pywps-a-tutorial-for-beginners-and-developers?related=3>`_
* `Zoo presentation foss4g.jp-2011 <http://www.slideshare.net/masarunarazaki/zoo-presentation-foss4gjp2011?related=4>`_

WPS Software
============

WPS Server Software:

* :term:`PyWPS`
* GeoServer - http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/services/wps/index.html
* Zoo - ``http://www.zoo-project.org/``
* :term:`COWS`
* Deegree - http://www.deegree.org/
* 52 North - http://52north.org/communities/geoprocessing/wps/

WPS Client Software:

* :term:`OWSLib Python Client <OWSLib>`
* OpenLayers WPS Plugin - http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/WPSClient-js.html
* GeoTools WPS Module - http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/unsupported/wps.html
* 52 North Java Client - http://52north.org/communities/geoprocessing/wps/index.html
* 52 North Javascript Client - http://geoprocessing.demo.52north.org:8080
* WPS Javascript Client by Boundless - https://github.com/boundlessgeo/wps-gui

QGIS Desktop GIS with wps plugins:

* http://www.qgis.org/en/site/
* http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/wps/
* http://geolabs.fr/plugins.xml

uDig Desktop GIS with wps plugins:

* http://udig.refractions.net/
* https://udig.github.io/docs/user/reference/Using%20the%20WPS%20plugin.html
* https://github.com/52North/uDig-WPS-plugin   (outdated)

WMS Software
============

WMS server:

* ncWMS2 - http://reading-escience-centre.github.io/edal-java/
* adaguc - http://adaguc.knmi.nl/
* sci-wms - http://sci-wms.github.io/sci-wms/

WMS clients:

* OpenLayers - http://openlayers.org/
* Leaflet - http://leafletjs.com/
    * time dimension - http://apps.socib.es/Leaflet.TimeDimension/examples/
* GeoExt - http://geoext.github.io/geoext2/

Scientific Workflow Tools
=========================

Workflow Engines:

* :term:`Dispel4py`
* :term:`RestFlow`
* :term:`Taverna`
* :term:`VisTrails`
* Kepler - https://kepler-project.org/
* KNIME - http://www.knime.org/

Taverna with WPS:

* ``http://rsg.pml.ac.uk/wps/generic.cgi?request=GetCapabilities&service=WPS``
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNAtoOejVIo
* https://taverna.incubator.apache.org/introduction/services-in-taverna.html
* https://github.com/myGrid/small-area-estimator
* http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.taverna.user/1415
* http://dev.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/display/developer/SCUFL2

VisTrails with WPS:

* https://github.com/ict4eo/eo4vistrails
* http://proj.badc.rl.ac.uk/cows/wiki/CowsWps/CDOWPSWorkingGroup/WPSAndWorkflows
* ``http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/105``

Kepler with WPS:

* https://kepler-project.org/users/sample-workflows

Workflows with PyWPS:

* https://github.com/AnnaHomolka/PyWPS/blob/master/doc/tutorial_process_chaining.pdf

Other Workflow Engines:

* ``http://www.yawlfoundation.org/``
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_workflow_system
* http://airavata.apache.org/
* http://search.cpan.org/~nuffin/Class-Workflow-0.11/


Scientific Python
=================

* Anaconda - https://www.continuum.io/downloads

Completely free enterprise-ready Python distribution for large-scale
data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing

* pandas - http://pandas.pydata.org/

Python Data Analysis Library

Python in Climate Science
=========================

* OpenClimateGIS - https://earthsystemcog.org/projects/openclimategis/

OpenClimateGIS is a Python package designed for geospatial
manipulation, subsetting, computation, and translation of climate
datasets stored in local NetCDF files or files served through THREDDS
data servers. [..]

* ICCLIM (i see clim ...) - https://github.com/cerfacs-globc/icclim

Python library for climate indices calculation.
Documentation at http://icclim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Python Web Frameworks and Utils
===============================

* Pyramid - http://www.pylonsproject.org/
* Authomatic - http://peterhudec.github.io/authomatic/
* Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com/
* Bootstrap Tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/default.asp
* Deform - https://github.com/Pylons/deform
* Deform with Bootstrap demo - http://deform2demo.repoze.org/
* Colander - http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/colander/en/latest/index.html
* TinyMCE - https://www.tinymce.com/
* Font Awesome - http://fontawesome.io/
* Leaflet - http://leafletjs.com/
* Leaflet TimeDimension - http://apps.socib.es/Leaflet.TimeDimension/examples/

Example WPS Services
====================

List of available Web Processing Services:

* Zoo WPS for PublicaMundi project - ``http://zoo.dev.publicamundi.eu/cgi-bin/zoo_loader.cgi?service=WPS&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities``
* GeoServer Demo WPS - ``http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wps?request=GetCapabilities&service=WPS``
* USGS Geo Data Portal- ``http://cida.usgs.gov/climate/gdp/process/WebProcessingService``
* KNMI climate4impact Portal - ``http://climate4impact.eu//impactportal/WPS?request=GetCapabilities&service=WPS``
* BADC CEDA - ``http://ceda-wps2.badc.rl.ac.uk/wps?request=GetCapabilities&service=WPS``
* delatres - ``http://dtvirt5.deltares.nl/wps/?Request=GetCapabilities&Service=WPS``
* 52 North - ``http://geoprocessing.demo.52north.org:8080/52n-wps-webapp-3.3.1/WebProcessingService?Request=GetCapabilities&Service=WPS``
* 52 North - ``http://geoprocessing.demo.52north.org:8080/52n-wps-webapp-3.3.1-gt/WebProcessingService?Request=GetCapabilities&Service=WPS``
* ZOO Demo WPS - ``http://zoo-project.org/cgi-bin/zoo_loader3.cgi?Request=GetCapabilities&Service=WPS``
* British Antarctic Survey WPS for Meteorological Data - ``http://sosmet.nerc-bas.ac.uk:8080/wpsmet/WebProcessingService?Request=GetCapabilities&Service=WPS``
* PyWPS Demo - ``http://apps.esdi-humboldt.cz/pywps/?request=GetCapabilities&service=WPS&version=1.0.0``


Alternatives to WPS
===================

* XML-RPC: Simple cross-platform distributed computing, based on the standards of the Internet. - http://xmlrpc.scripting.com/
* Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API.  - http://swagger.io/


Related Projects
================

* http://geopython.github.io/
* http://geonode.org/
* http://esgf.llnl.gov/
* http://climate4impact.eu/impactportal/general/index.jsp
* http://adaguc.knmi.nl/
* http://wps-web1.ceda.ac.uk/ui/home
* ``https://freva.met.fu-berlin.de/``
* https://climate.apache.org/