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International Journal of Geographical Information Science Volume 30, 2016 - Issue 11
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Enabling point pattern analysis on spatial big data using cloud computing: optimizing and accelerating Ripley’s K function

Guiming ZhangDepartment of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USAView further author information
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Qunying HuangDepartment of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USAView further author information
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A-Xing ZhuKey Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China;State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution, Nanjing, China;State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China;Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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John H. KeelDivision of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USAView further author information
Pages 2230-2252 | Received 19 Oct 2015, Accepted 21 Mar 2016, Published online: 11 Apr 2016

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Guiming Zhang & Jin Xu. (2023) Multi-GPU-Parallel and Tile-Based Kernel Density Estimation for Large-Scale Spatial Point Pattern Analysis. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12:2, pages 31.
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Guiming Zhang, A‐Xing Zhu, Jing Liu, Shanxin Guo & Yunqiang Zhu. (2021) PyCLiPSM: Harnessing heterogeneous computing resources on CPUs and GPUs for accelerated digital soil mapping. Transactions in GIS 25:3, pages 1396-1418.
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Yuan Wang, Zhipeng Gui, Huayi Wu, Dehua Peng, Jinghang Wu & Zousen Cui. (2020) Optimizing and accelerating space–time Ripley ’s K function based on Apache Spark for distributed spatiotemporal point pattern analysis. Future Generation Computer Systems 105, pages 96-118.
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Guiming Zhang & A-Xing Zhu. (2019) A representativeness heuristic for mitigating spatial bias in existing soil samples for digital soil mapping. Geoderma 351, pages 130-143.
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