Towards a potential research agenda to guide the implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructures - A case study from India

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1113-1130

  Georgiadou, Y ^a   Puri, S K ^a   Sahay, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Developing countries; India; Information infrastructures; National SDI; Spatial data infrastructure

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 30844471112     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810500286950     Document Type: Article

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