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Redefining the possibility of digital Earth and geosciences with spatial cloud computing

Chaowei Yang Center of Intelligent Spatial Computing for Water/Energy Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Yan Xu Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
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Douglas Nebert Federal Geographic Data Committee, Reston, VA, USA
Pages 297-312 | Received 31 Oct 2012, Accepted 29 Dec 2012, Published online: 24 May 2013

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