The Geoprocessing Web

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-12

  Zhao, Peisheng ^a   Foerster, Theodor ^b   Yue, Peng ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geoprocessing Web; Geospatial Web service; Real time geospatial information; Semantic web; Volunteered geographic information; Web processing service

Indexed keywords

GEOPROCESSING; GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION; GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICES; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; WEB PROCESSING SERVICE;

DATA PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SEMANTIC WEB; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

DATA PROCESSING; SPATIAL DATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84864848514     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2012.04.021     Document Type: Article

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