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Special Issue Editorial Introduction: Grids and Geospatial Information Systems
Author(s) -
Pierce Marlon E.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.1381
Subject(s) - geospatial analysis , computer science , grid , data science , geospatial pdf , geographic information system , grid computing , distributed gis , information system , service (business) , world wide web , gis applications , am/fm/gis , geography , engineering , remote sensing , economy , geodesy , electrical engineering , economics
Grids and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are both based on distributed service architectures and have complementary capabilities. GIS systems provide a comprehensive set of services for managing maps, geospatial data sets, and geospatial information that can be applied to areas ranging from access to scientific data by researchers to disaster planning and emergency management. The data and information focus of GIS are being augmented with the computational and virtual organization capabilities of Grid computing by many projects, including the ones by the contributors to this special issue. This editorial introduction serves as an overview of the issues discussed at the GIS‐Grid Workshop in the Open Grid Forum and the follow‐on papers of this special issue. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.