Design and development of Distributed Virtual Geographic Environment system based on web services

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 3968-3980

  Zhang, Jianqin ^a,c   Gong, Jianhua ^a   Lin, Hui ^b   Wang, Gang ^c   Huang, JianLing ^c   Zhu, Jun ^a   Xu, Bingli ^a   Teng, Jack ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c Beijing Transportation Research Center   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Grid services; J2EE; Virtual Environment; Virtual Geographic Environment; Web services

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHY MARKUP LANGUAGES (GML); GRID SERVICES; VIRTUAL GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

DATA MINING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTEROPERABILITY; MARKUP LANGUAGES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34447332236     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.02.049     Document Type: Article

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