Spatial Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach

ISBN-13: 9781466593169 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 357 str.

Chaowei Yang

Opis

A computing cloud is a set of network enabled services, providing scalable, inexpensive computing platforms on demand, which can be accessed in a simple way. This book helps its readers understand the process of how to deploy and customize geospatial applications onto clouds, as well as how to optimize clouds to make them better support geospatial applications. It also discusses and presents the strategies for customizing different types of applications to better utilize the cloud capabilities, such as on-demand services.

Spis treści

Part I Introduction to Cloud Computing for Geospatial Domains. Why Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing Concepts, Characteristics and Architecture. Enabling Technologies. Spatial Cloud Computing. Part II Cloud Computing Deployment. How to use cloud computing?. Cloud Computing Cost Model: How to choose cloud Computing?. Cloud Enable Applications. Part III Cloud Enabling Geosciences Projects. Cloud-Enable GEOSS Clearinghouse. Cloud-Enable Climate@Home. Cloud-Enable Dust Storm Forecasting. Part IV Cloud Computing Status and Readiness. Commercial Cloud Computing Platforms. Readiness of Cloud Computing Platforms. Open Source Cloud Computing Solutions. Readiness of Open Source Cloud Computing Resources. GeoCloud Initiative. Part V Future Directions. Cloud Computing Research. Handling of Data, Computing, Concurrent and Spatiotemporal Intensities. Integrating Knowledge Reasoning and Cloud Computing to Enable Geosciences. Towards Spatial Cloud Computing. References. Index.

O autorze

Chaowei Yang, Qunying Huang