Distributed geospatial information processing: Sharing distributed geospatial resources to support digital earth

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-278

  Yang, Chaowei ^a   Li, Wenwen ^a   Xie, Jibo ^a   Zhou, Bin ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberinfrastructure; Dgip; Digital earth; Interoperability; Ontology; Semantic search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994178040     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538940802037954     Document Type: Article

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