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Chapter 17
Cloud computing research for
geosciences and applications
Chaowei Yang, Qunying Huang, Zhipeng Gui,
Zhenlong Li, Chen Xu, Yunfeng Jiang, and Jing Li
Cloud computing provides capabilities and solutions that transcend orga-
nizations, jurisdictional boundaries, and continents for many unsolved
global challenges in the 21st century (NRC 2011b). However, the eventual
success of cloud computing for geospatial sciences will be measured as if
cloud computing can speed up geoscience research and improve geospatial
application operations from a management perspective by, for example,
cost savings (Luftman and Zadeh 2011). A lot of research ...