Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences
Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences
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地理信息学:固体地球科学的网络基础设施
DOI:
10.1017/cbo9780511976308
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发表时间:
2011
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通讯作者:
C. Baru
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作者:
G. Keller;C. Baru
Advanced information technology infrastructure is increasingly being employed in the Earth sciences to provide researchers with efficient access to massive central databases and to integrate diversely formatted information from a variety of sources. These geoinformatics initiatives enable manipulation, modeling and visualization of data in a consistent way, and are helping to develop integrated Earth models at various scales, and from the near surface to the deep interior. This book uses a series of case studies to demonstrate computer and database use across the geosciences. Chapters are thematically grouped into sections that cover data collection and management; modeling and community computational codes; visualization and data representation; knowledge management and data integration; and web services and scientific workflows. Geoinformatics is a fascinating and accessible introduction to this emerging field for readers across the solid Earth sciences and an invaluable reference for researchers interested in initiating new cyberinfrastructure projects of their own.