The input, preparation, and distribution of data for parallel GIS operations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1900, Issue , 2000, Pages 500-505

  Darling, Gordon J ^a   Sloan, Terence M ^a   Mulholland, Connor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; TOPOLOGY;

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES; PARALLEL DATA; PARALLEL PROCESS; SPATIAL DATA; TOPOLOGICAL DATA; TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84937430896     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44520-x_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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