Advancing Global Marine Biogeography Research with Open-source GIS Software and Cloud Computing

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-160

  Fujioka, Ei ^a   Berghe, Edward Vanden ^b   Donnelly, Ben ^a   Castillo, Julio ^c   Cleary, Jesse ^a   Holmes, Chris ^d   Mcknight, Sean ^e   Halpin, Patrick ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^d OpenGeo   (United States)

^e Department of Public Works ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

CENSUS OF MARINE LIVES; CLOUD-COMPUTING; DATA SYSTEMS; GIS SOFTWARE; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL DATA; GLOBAL MARINES; OPEN-SOURCE GIS; PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE COMPUTING;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMPLEXITY; DATA SET; GIS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAPPING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84859740785     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2012.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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