Redefining the possibility of digital Earth and geosciences with spatial cloud computing

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 297-312

  Yang, Chaowei ^a   Xu, Yan ^b   Nebert, Douglas ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Federal Geographic Data Committee   (United States)

Author keywords

CloudGIS; Earth science; EarthCube; eScience; interoperability

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA SHARING; E-SCIENCE; EARTH SCIENCES; INTEROPERABILITY; VIRTUAL ADDRESSES;

CLOUDGIS; COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; EARTHCUBE; OPERATION ASPECTS; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

DATA PROCESSING; EARTH SCIENCE; GIS; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84879685278     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2013.769783     Document Type: Review

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