Using a computational grid for geographic information analysis: A reconnaissance

Professional Geographer

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 365-375

  Armstrong, Marc P ^a   Cowles, Mary Kathryn ^a   Wang, Shaowen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid computing; Grid portals; Middleware; Parallel computing; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM; GIS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 23644442419     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-0124.2005.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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