Preliminary study of a cluster-based open-source parallel GID based on the GRASS GIS

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 402-420

  Huang, Fang ^a   Liu, Dingsheng ^b   Li, Xiaowen ^a,c   Wang, Lizhe ^d   Xu, Wenbo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; Digital earth; Grass gis; Open source parallel gis; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLUSTER; DIGITAL EARTH; DIGITAL EARTH CONSTRUCTION; EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE; GEOGRAPHIC RESOURCES; GRASS GIS; OPEN SOURCES; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GIS; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80051898465     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2010.543954     Document Type: Article

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