Distributed computing model for processing remotely sensed images based on grid computing

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 504-518

  Shen, Zhanfeng ^a   Luo, Jiancheng ^a   Huang, Guangyu ^b   Ming, Dongping ^b   Ma, Weifeng ^c   Sheng, Hao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Computing model; Distributed and parallel processing; Grid computing; Middleware; Remotely sensed image processing; Web services

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REMOTE SENSING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTING MODELS; DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL PROCESSING; GRID COMPUTING; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGE PROCESSING; WEB SERVICES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33750321874     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.08.020     Document Type: Article

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