A high performance system for processing queries on distributed geospatial data sets

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3402, Issue , 2005, Pages 119-128

  Abdelguerfi, Mahdi ^a   Mahadevan, Venkata ^a   Challier, Nicolas ^a   Flanagin, Maik ^a   Shaw, Kevin ^b   Ratcliff, Jay ^c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

BEOWULF CLUSTERS; FRAGMENTS; GEOSPATIAL DATA; NODES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 24144439986     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11403937_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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