Prototyping an open environment for sharing geographical analysis models on cloud computing platform

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 356-382

  Wen, Yongning ^a,c   Chen, Min ^b   Lu, Guonian ^a   Lin, Hui ^b   He, Li ^a   Yue, Songshan ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cloud computing; geographical analysis models; open environment

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; DIGITAL EARTH; GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS MODELING; OPEN ENVIRONMENT;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; GIS;

EID: 84879664342     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2012.716861     Document Type: Article

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