Integration of Oceanographic Numerical Modelling Systems and Autonomous Computational Systems Using Web Services

• Main Authors: SERPA, P, WEITZEL, L., CALADO, L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculdade Salesiana Maria Auxiliadora 2018-12-01
• Series: Sistemas de Informação
• Subjects: web service; rest; oceanography; numerical forecast
• Online Access: http://www.fsma.edu.br/si/edicao21/Download_FSMA_SI_2018_1_Principal_1_en.html

Operational Oceanography is a reality nowadays, making it necessary for computer systems to improv the numerical models and the feasibility of numerical oceanographic systems. The main goal of this research is to study and design a system that uses Web Services paradigm in order to integrate oceanographic numerical modeling systems and autonomous computational systems. The system aims to provide an abstraction layer between applications such as Matlab, Fortran, Python, Java Script and the underlying network infrastructure. It is based on the REST architecture and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) protocol. Thus, both internal modules and external systems can communicate in a distributed, low-coupling and transparent manner, regardless of their location, development language and hardware platform. For Operational Oceanography, these characteristics bring some advantages including, for instance, the fact that it provides greater processing power for the execution of numerical models using specific hardware and it makes it possible to integrate new numerical models. Hence, the proposed system enables the evolution of the Numerical Oceanographic Prediction System, specially core operations of the Almirante Paulo Moreira Institute of Sea Studies (Brazilian Navy), as well as other oceanographic researches in general.