This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment(XSEDE);which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number OCI-1053575;The first author expresses the appreciation of funds received from the National Science Foundation(Award#CNS-1028177);support from San Diego State University。
Geospatial simulation models can help us understand the dynamic aspects of Digital Earth.To implement high-performance simulation models for complex geospatial problems,grid computing and cloud computing are two promi...
This work was supported in part by the MOST,China under Grant Nos.2009CB723906 and 2008AA12Z109;by CAS under Grant No.KZCX2-YW-313.
The study of global climate change seeks to understand:(1)the components of the Earth’s varying environmental system,with a particular focus on climate;(2)how these components interact to determine present conditions...
supported by the following grants:National High Technology Development 863 Program of China(2007AA120502,2009AA12Z231);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation-funded project(20090460126).
Grid computing is deemed as a good solution to the digital earth infrastructure.Various geographically dispersed geospatial resources can be connected and merged into a‘supercomputer’by using the grid-computing tech...
After the set-up of a spatial data infrastructure(SDI)and a national information infrastructure(NII)in many countries,the provision of geo-services became one of the most important and attractive tasks.With the integr...
‘Multi-scale Aerosol Optical Thickness Quantitative Retrieval from Remotely Sensing Data at Urban Area’(40671142);‘Aerosol fast monitoring modelling using MODIS data and middlewares development’(40471091);NSFC,China,‘Digital Earth(KZCX2-312)’funded by CAS,China;‘Dynamic Monitoring of Beijing Olympic Environment Using Remote Sensing’(2002BA904B07-2)funded by the MOST,China.
Digital Earth is an important field of information technology and a research frontier of geosciences in the 21st century.So far,the Grid computing technique is one of the best solutions for Digital Earth infrastructur...