Detecting tourism destinations using scalable geospatial analysis based on cloud computing platform

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 54, Issue , 2015, Pages 144-153

  Zhou, Xiaolu ^a   Xu, Chen ^b   Kimmons, Brandon ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Flickr; Geographic Information Systems; RHadoop; Spatial analytics

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; FLICKR; GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; RHADOOP; SPATIAL ANALYTICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATIONS; TRAVEL EXPERIENCES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84940762381     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.07.006     Document Type: Article

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