Lifting the information barriers to address sustainability challenges with data from physical geography and Earth observation

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Lehmann, Anthony ^a   Chaplin Kramer, Rebecca ^b   Lacayo, Martin ^a   Giuliani, Grégory ^a   Thau, David ^c   Koy, Kevin ^d   Goldberg, Grace ^e   Sharp, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application programming interface; Collaborative user interface; Ecosystem services; High performance computing; Spatial data infrastructure; Sustainable development goals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; INFORMATICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BERKELEY; BLACK SEA; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85019862341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9050858     Document Type: Article

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