Virtual database: Spatial analysis in a Web-based data management system for distributed ecological data

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1544-1554

  Frehner, Marcel ^a   Brändli, Martin ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data integration; Data interoperability; Geospatial Web services; Spatial data infrastructure; WebGIS

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA INTEGRATION; DATA INTEROPERABILITY; GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICES; SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE; WEBGIS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

DATABASE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MAPPING; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33746399300     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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