The adoption of geoprocessing service clients in mobile devices seems to be still rare, even when the communication protocol provided by the Web Processing Service (WPS) seems to fit the philosophy of accessing computation-intensive processes from resource-constrained devices such as mobile applications. One of the reasons to such a low use of WPS services may be due to input and output data used in a given geospatial process are often encoded in some XML-based format that demands large processing capabilities for mobile devices. In order to deal with this problem we present the WPS Mobile Framework, which carries out the automatic generation of XML data binding code for mobile devices tailored to specific application needs. In addition, we present two WPS-compliant client applications to demonstrate the reliability of the proposed framework for building compact, standards-based geoprocessing mobile clients.

JRC.H.6-Digital Earth and Reference Data