Users as essential contributors to spatial cyberinfrastructures

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5510-5515

  Poore, Barbara S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPATIAL CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 79955017179     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907677108     Document Type: Article

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