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GISolve toolkit: advancing GIS through cyberinfrastructure

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GIS '08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1463434.1463529

Published: 05 November 2008 Publication History

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Cyberinfrastructure integrates information and communication technologies to enable high-performance, distributed, and collaborative knowledge discovery, and promises to revolutionize the way that science and engineering are conducted in the 21st century. This paper demonstrates the GISolve Toolkit that enhances Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with respect to geospatial problem-solving based on cyberinfrastructure. GISolve is developed as a high-performance, distributed, and collaborative Web GIS powered by cyberinfrastructure capabilities, including high-performance and Grid computing, data management and visualization, and virtual organization support. GISolve architecture is service-oriented that enables interoperable and scalable integration between spatial analysis and basic cyberinfrastructure services. Currently, GISolve is deployed on the National Science Foundation TeraGrid -- arguably the most advanced cyberinfrastructure project worldwide. A suite of spatial analyses is employed to demonstrate GISolve functions.

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GISolve toolkit: advancing GIS through cyberinfrastructure
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web

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GIS '08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems

November 2008

559 pages

ISBN:9781605583235

DOI:10.1145/1463434

Program Chairs:
Walid G. Aref
Purdue University
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Mohamed F. Mokbel
University of Minnesota
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Markus Schneider
University of Florida

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Yingjie Xia Xingmin Shi Li Kuang Junhua Xuan (2010)Parallel geospatial analysis on windows HPC platform2010 The 2nd Conference on Environmental Science and Information Application Technology10.1109/ESIAT.2010.5568518(210-213)Online publication date: Jul-2010
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