Abstract
CyberGIS represents an interdisciplinary field combining advanced cyberinfrastructure, geographic information science and systems (GIS), spatial analysis and modeling, and a number of geospatial domains to improve research productivity and enable scientific breakthroughs. It has emerged as new-generation GIS that enable unprecedented advances in data-driven knowledge discovery, visualization and visual analytics, and collaborative problem solving and decision-making. This paper describes three open software strategies–open access, source, and integration–to serve various research and education purposes of diverse geospatial communities. These strategies have been implemented in a leading-edge cyberGIS software environment through three corresponding software modalities: CyberGIS Gateway, Toolkit, and Middleware, and achieved broad and significant impacts.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-5 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | SoftwareX |
| Volume | 5 |
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| State | Published - Mar 16 2015 |
Funding
This paper and associated materials are based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant numbers: 0846655 , 1047916 , 1354329 , and 1443080 . This work used the NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). NSF supports XSEDE under grant number 1053575 . Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.
Keywords
- CyberGIS
- Cyberinfrastructure
- Geospatial big data