Book Details

High Performance Computing for Geospatial Applications

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-47998-5

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This volume fills a research gap between the rapid development of High Performance Computing (HPC) approaches and their geospatial applications. With a focus on geospatial applications, the book discusses in detail how researchers apply HPC to tackle their geospatial problems. Based on this focus, the book identifies the opportunities and challenges revolving around geospatial applications of HPC. Readers are introduced to the fundamentals of HPC, and will learn how HPC methods are applied in various specific areas of geospatial study.


Subject: Computer Science, High performance computing, Geospatial data, Parallel algorithms, Remote sensing, Geovisualization, Cartography, Spatial modeling, Big data challenges