Our GIS is too small

M Gahegan - The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
GIScience and GISystems have been successful in tackling many geographical problems
over the last 30 years. But technologies and associated theory can become limiting if they …

A geospatial hybrid cloud platform based on multi-sourced computing and model resources for geosciences

Q Huang, J Li, Z Li - International Journal of Digital Earth, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Cloud computing has been considered as the next-generation computing platform with the
potential to address the data and computing challenges in geosciences. However, only a …

Spatial landscape model to characterize biological diversity using R statistical computing environment

H Singh, RD Garg, HC Karnatak, A Roy - Journal of Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to urbanization and population growth, the degradation of natural forests and
associated biodiversity are now widely recognized as a global environmental concern …

A spark-based high performance computational approach for simulating typhoon wind fields

S Lin, W Fang, X Wu, Y Chen, Z Huang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The impacts of typhoons on coastal areas around the globe necessitate the risk
assessments of typhoon events to analyze their paths, intensity, and impacts on the …

A compiler approach to map algebra: automatic parallelization, locality optimization, and GPU acceleration of raster spatial analysis

J Carabaño, J Westerholm, T Sarjakoski - GeoInformatica, 2018 - Springer
Computer architectures have evolved into parallel and heterogeneous systems with multi-
core CPUs, many-core GPUs, and vector instructions. Meanwhile, advances in data …