The emergence of spatial cyberinfrastructure

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

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5488-5491

  Wright, Dawn J ^a   Shaowen Wang, ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Geographic information science; Spatial analysis; Spatial computational domain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYBERNETICS; HUMANITIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SENSOR; SOCIOLOGY; SPATIAL CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 79955041208     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103051108     Document Type: Article

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