High-performance quadtree constructions on large-scale geospatial rasters using GPGPU parallel primitives

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2207-2226

  Zhang, Jianting ^a,b   You, Simin ^b  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

geographic information systems; GPGPU; high performance computing; parallel primitives; spatial indexing

Indexed keywords

GIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887173273     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.828840     Document Type: Article

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