= ZOO-Project GSoC Ideas  =

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Enter ideas for development projects here. 'Note these are just suggestions - students are welcome to propose projects based on their own interests that involve the ZOO-Project. 

== ZOO-Services implementation using pyModis  ==

=== Involved projects ===

* [http://www.zoo-project.org/ ZOO-Project] 
* [http://www.pymodis.org/ pyModis]

=== Proposal ===

On one hand, the ZOO-Project has proven long time support for the services implemented using the Python language. On the other hand, the pyModis project has been developed and used to work with MODIS data. The project provides User Interfaces (UI) based on wxPython which is able to interact with [http://www.pymodis.org/scripts/software.html pyModis scripts].

The first goal of this GSoC project is to '''create WPS Services based on each of the available pyModis scripts'''. Those services should provide the ongoing status of the execution during the execution to make the client able to know the current state of the service and its evolution.

The ZOO-Project provides the ZOO-Client, a JavaScript API, which is already able to automatically generate HTML forms for every available services. Examples of such an automatic HTML forms creation are available in the following demonstration UI: [http://zoo-project.org/examples/saga-example.html 1] and [http://zoo-project.org/examples/otb-example.html 2].

The second goal of this GSoC project is to '''create User Interfaces to interact with the pyModis WPS services''' by taking advantages of the existing ZOO-Client and its templating system.

=== Mentors ===

The following individuals are willing to serve as ZOO-Project mentors or co-mentors. 

* Gérald Fenoy as mentor
* Luca Delucchi as co-mentor


== ZOO-Project powered Java through JGrasstools  ==

=== Involved projects ===

* [http://www.zoo-project.org/ ZOO-Project] 
* [http://moovida.github.io/jgrasstools/ JGrasstools]

=== Proposal ===

The ZOO-Project is a solid WPS server able to handle services implemented in various different programming languages. The Java bindings have never been tested in advanced configurations and complex data types.
The JGrasstools project is a modular processing library and its highly annotated nature makes it possible to adapt quite easily to other toolboxes. One example has been the adaptation to the Geotools Process API. The JGrasstools project, as well as other java based projects (as JTS and even GeoTools) would benefit a lot from the possibility to be used within a WPS environment. The proposal is to bring the Java binding to a mature level and validate them by integrating the JGrasstools libraries. This will allow them to work inside the ZOO-Project and serve its modules under the WPS standard.

=== Mentors ===

The following individuals are willing to serve as ZOO-Project mentors or co-mentors. 

* Gérald Fenoy as mentor
* Andrea Antonello as co-mentor