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Geospatial grid refers to the grid, an emerging cyberinfrastructure, dealing with geospatial information (aka spatial information grid). The geospatial grid includes geospatial data grids (GDGs) and geospatial computational grids (GCGs) (Di 2004, 2006). A geospatial grid leverages geospatial standards and interfaces to handle geospatial data, information, and processes. A GDG is used for registering, managing, retrieving, and securely copying and moving geospatial data and its replicas among data centers distributed around the world. A GCG focuses on processing and analyzing geospatial data and their replicas by utilizing distributed geospatial resources in the grid environment. Both GDG and GCG are based on the fundamental grid standards, the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) and the Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) (Globus 2006). A...
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Chen, A., Di, L., Wei, Y., Bai, Y. (2017). Grid, Geospatial. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_552
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