Geoinformatics: Transforming data to knowledge for geosciences

GSA Today

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4-10

  Sinha, A Krishna ^a,l   Malik, Zaki ^b   Rezgui, Abdelmounaam ^c   Barnes, Calvin G ^d   Lin, Kai ^e   Heiken, Grant ^f   Thomas, William A ^g   Gundersen, Linda C ^h   Raskin, Robert ⁱ   Jackson, Ian ^j   Fox, Peter ^k   McGuinness, Deborah ^k   Seber, Dogan ^e,m   Zimmerman, Herman ^f  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Univ of Kentucky ^*

^g UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^k RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; GIS; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 78650477318     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG85A.1     Document Type: Article

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