Massively parallel strategies for local spatial interpolation

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 859-867

  Armstrong, Marc P ^a   Marciano, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel computing; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

EID: 0031413072     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(97)00058-7     Document Type: Article

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