Geographical Information Systems: Trends and Technologies

Geographical Information Systems: Trends and Technologies
ISBN-10
1466596953
ISBN-13
9781466596955
Series
Geographical Information Systems
Category
Computers
Pages
358
Language
English
Published
2014-05-16
Publisher
CRC Press
Author
Elaheh Pourabbas

Description

Web services, cloud computing, location based services, NoSQLdatabases, and Semantic Web offer new ways of accessing, analyzing, and elaborating geo-spatial information in both real-world and virtual spaces. This book explores the how-to of the most promising recurrent technologies and trends in GIS, such as Semantic GIS, Web GIS, Mobile GIS, NoSQL Geographic Databases, Cloud GIS, Spatial Data Warehousing-OLAP, and Open GIS. The text discusses and emphasizes the methodological aspects of such technologies and their applications in GIS.

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