With the increasing interest in large-scale, high-resolution and real-time geographic
information system (GIS) applications and spatial big data processing, traditional GIS is not …

This year marks the 21st anniversary of the International GeoComputation Conference
Series. To celebrate the occasion, Environment and Planning B invited some members of …

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 …

MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission (MODTRAN) is a commercial remote
sensing (RS) software package that has been widely used to simulate radiative transfer of …

Existing Hadoop-based remote sensing data processing approaches are insufficient for
efficiently meeting the requirements of applications, especially when large remote sensing …

In this paper, the application of High–Performance Computing (HPC) techniques in
processing of geospatial data in Geographic Information System (GIS) is presented. We …

Agriculture activity monitoring needs to deal with large amounts of data originating from
various organizations (weather stations, agriculture repositories, field management, farm …

Monitoring agricultural activities is important to ensure food security. Remote sensing plays
a significant role for large-scale continuous monitoring of cultivation activities. Time series …

Geographical information systems are ideal candidates for the application of parallel
programming techniques, mainly because they usually handle large data sets. To help us …

Geographic information system (GIS) is utilized in geomorphic analysis, hazard mapping,
evacuation route planning and so on. Some GISs employ heterogeneous distributed …