Open cyberGIS software for geospatial research and education in the big data era
Year: 2015
Type: software-paper
Abstract: CyberGIS represents an interdisciplinary field combining advanced cyberinfrastructure , geographic information science and systems (GIS), spatial analysis and modeling, and a number of geospatial domains to improve research productivity and enable scientific breakthroughs. It has emerged as new-generation GIS that enable unprecedented advances in data-driven knowledge discovery, visualization and visual analytics, and collaborative problem solving and decision-making. This paper describes three open software strategies–open access, source, and integration–to serve various research and education purposes of diverse geospatial communities. These strategies have been implemented in a leading-edge cyberGIS software environment through three corresponding software modalities: CyberGIS Gateway, Toolkit, and Middleware, and achieved broad and significant impacts.
Source: SoftwareX
Authors: Shaowen Wang, Yan Liu, Anand Padmanabhan
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,200
Funder: National Science Foundation
Awards: EAGER: CISSDA: A Unified Cyberinfrastructure Framework for Scalable Spatiotemporal Data Analytics, CIF21 DIBBs: Scalable Capabilities for Spatial Data Synthesis, CAREER: Formalizing and Resolving Computational Intensity of Spatial Analysis to Establish a Cyber-GIS Framework, SI2-SSI: CyberGIS Software Integration for Sustained Geospatial Innovation
OpenAlex ID: W2178260733