Extending distributed GIS to support geo-collaborative crisis management

Geographic Information Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-14

  Cai, Guoray ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Distributed GIS; Geo collaboration; Groupware

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991943846     PISSN: 10824006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10824000509480595     Document Type: Article

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