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Spatial Cloud Computing
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Spatial Cloud Computing

by Chaowei Yang, Qunying Huang
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
357 pages
11h 25m
English
CRC Press
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Contents
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
PART I
Introduction to cloud computing for geosciences 1
1 Geoscience application challenges to computing
infrastructures 3
1.1 Challenges and opportunities for geoscience
applications in the 21st century 3
1.1.1 Energy 3
1.1.2 Emergency response 4
1.1.3 Climate change 5
1.1.4 Sustainable development 6
1.2 The needs of a new computing infrastructure 8
1.2.1 Providing enough computing power 8
1.2.2 Responding in real time 9
1.2.3 Saving energy 9
1.2.4 Saving the budget 10
1.2.5 Improving accessibility 10
1.3 The birth of cloud computing 10
1.3.1 Distributed computing 10
1.3.2 On-demand s ...
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ISBN: 9781466593169