Integrating CyberGIS gateway with Windows Azure: A case study on MODFLOW groundwater simulation

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2nd International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL HPDGIS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 26-29

  Behzad, Babak ^a,b   Padmanabhan, Anand ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Wang, Shaowen ^a  

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

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud computing; CyberGIS; MODFLOW; science gateway; Windows Azure

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; CYBERGIS; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; GEO-SPATIAL; GROUNDWATER SIMULATIONS; INTEGRATION FRAMEWORKS; MICROSOFT WINDOWS; MODFLOW; SCIENCE GATEWAY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 83455198557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2070770.2070774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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