Building an intelligent geospatial cyberinfrastructure: An analytical problem solving approach

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6420, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Tong ^a   Tsou, Ming Hsiang ^a   Qiao, Qinghua ^b   Xu, Lin ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geospatial cyberinfrastructure; Grid computing; Internet GIServices; OGC; Problem solving environment

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GEOSPATIAL CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE; GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; INTERNET GISERVICES; PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENT;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846849175     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.712656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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