A SOA-Based System for Territory Monitoring

This chapter outlines the functionalities of a system that integrates sensor data transmitted by a fleet of unmanned aircrafts for territorial surveillance and protection from natural disasters.Some functions of the system are based on the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm (Erl, 2005) and follow Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards (Open Geospatial Consortium) in the representation of geographical data in a multidimensional, spatiotemporal view.Next is a presentation of the complete system architecture, followed by a discussion of the details of the various services. Amongst these services, management and simulation of tactical planning, management of data and streaming video, the system also presents a service for the annotation of the interested spatial objects. Annotation deploys the web services (Alonso, Casati, Kuno, & Machiraju, 2004) exported by OpenStreetMap (OpenStreetMap) with the purpose to exploit the on-line information sources continuously updated by the social networks communities.