A distributed geographic information system on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

GeoInformatica

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-115

  Wang, Fangju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed information system; Geographic information system; Parallel processing; Query optimization; The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

Indexed keywords

GIS; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0034040428     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009832526289     Document Type: Article

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