The emerging concepts and applications of the spatial web portal

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 691-698

  Yang, Phil ^a,b   Evans, John ^a   Cola, Marge ^a   Marley, Steve ^a   Alameh, Nadine ^a   Bambacus, Myra ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY; METADATA; SPECIFICATIONS; WEB SERVICES;

GEOSPATIAL METADATA; GEOSPATIAL RESOURCES; PORTLETS; SPATIAL WEB SERVICES;

PORTALS;

DATA SET; EARTH SCIENCE; EOS; HETEROGENEITY; INTERNET;

EID: 34249806720     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.73.6.691     Document Type: Article

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