The proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much wider access to data currently available in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In order t...
Background: For ecological studies, it is crucial to count on adequate descriptions of the environments and samples being studied. Such a description must be done in terms of thei...
In many information systems, the databases that make up the system are distributed in different modules or branch offices according to the requirements of the business enterprise. ...
Abstract. A metacomputing environment is a collection of geographically distributed resources (people, computers, devices, databases) connected by one or more high-speed networks, ...
Adam Ferrari, Frederick Knabe, Marty Humphrey, Ste...
In this paper we present a prototype system for the management of earth science data which is novel in that it takes a DBMS centric view of the the task. Our prototype -- called &...