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Chapter 15
GeoCloud initiative
Doug Nebert and Qunying Huang
The Geospatial Cloud Sandbox initiative (GeoCloud) was developed under
the Geospatial Platform
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activity to deploy and document geospatial
cloudservices based on shared Platform as a Service (PaaS) images that
are codeveloped and rapidlycongured by multiple agencies. This chapter
introduces the methods and lessons learned from the project.
15.1 INTRODUCTION
With the exibility, cost-effectiveness, and cost-efciency of cloud com-
puting, many federal agencies are adopting cloud technologies to cut costs
and to make federal IT operations more efcient. In December 2011, U.S.
Chief ...