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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822830803321

Autore

Yang Chaowei

Titolo

Spatial cloud computing : a practical approach / / Chaowei Yang, Qunying Huang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-16788-1

1-4665-9316-4

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Classificazione

COM032000COM043000TEC036000

Disciplina

004.67/82

004.6782

Soggetti

Geospatial data

Cloud computing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Introduction to cloud computing for geosciences -- part II. Deploying applications onto cloud services -- part III. Cloud-enabling geoscience projects -- part IV. Cloud computing status and readiness -- part V. Future directions.

Sommario/riassunto

A computing cloud is a set of network enabled services, providing scalable, inexpensive computing platforms on demand, which can be accessed in a simple way. This book helps its readers understand the process of how to deploy and customize geospatial applications onto clouds, as well as how to optimize clouds to make them better support geospatial applications. It also discusses and presents the strategies for customizing different types of applications to better utilize the cloud capabilities, such as on-demand services--