Establishing a sustainable and cross-boundary geospatial cyberinfrastructure to enable polar research

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1721-1726

  Yang, Chaowei ^a   Nebert, Doug ^b   Fraser Taylor, D R ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Federal Geographic Data Committee   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antarctic and Arctic; CyberGIS; Geophysical research; Geospatial platform; Polar engineering; Social and environment change

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC AND ARCTIC; CYBERGIS; ENVIRONMENT CHANGE; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH; POLAR ENGINEERING;

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EARTH (PLANET); GEOPHYSICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

RESEARCH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERNET; POLAR REGION; REAL TIME; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DATA;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC;

EID: 80054942776     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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