2.2. GIS platform architecture
Due to the extreme heterogeneous and distributed nature of the research data, the
solution was to design the platform’s architecture upon the latest developments in GIS and
Web Cartography. The COGEAR GIS Platform was designed to abide the generic, threetier
WebGIS architecture (Iosifescu, 2009) presented in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1 Generic Three tier WebGIS architecture (Iosifescu, 2009)