A spatial data infrastructure integrating multisource heterogeneous geospatial data and time series: A study case in agriculture

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Bordogna, Gloria ^a   Kliment, Tomáš ^b   Frigerio, Luca ^b   Brivio, Pietro Alessandro ^a   Crema, Alberto ^a   Stroppiana, Daniela ^a   Boschetti, Mirco ^a   Sterlacchini, Simone ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Geoportal; Geospatial Data (GD); Metadata; Smart App; Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI); Time series; VolunteeredGeographic Information (VGI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009063771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5050073     Document Type: Article

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