INTAMAP: The design and implementation of an interoperable automated interpolation web service

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 343-352

  Pebesma, Edzer ^a   Cornford, Dan ^b   Dubois, Gregoire ^c   Heuvelink, Gerard B M ^d   Hristopulos, Dionisis ^e   Pilz, Jürgen ^f   Stöhlker, Ulrich ^g   Morin, Gary ^h   Skøien, Jon O ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^g BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^h Keynetix Systems   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental data; Environmental information; Geostatistics; In situ sensors; OGC; SOA; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; GEOSTATISTICS; IN-SITU; OGC; SOA; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

INTEROPERABILITY; INTERPOLATION; MARKUP LANGUAGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSORS;

WEB SERVICES;

ALGORITHM; DESIGN METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; PROBABILITY; SENSOR; SPATIAL DATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79952191338     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.03.019     Document Type: Article

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