A Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Economic Analysis and Spatial Decision-Making
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Planning Use Case
3. Literature
4. Methodology
4.1. Conflation
4.2. Service Chain of Geospatial Processes in the Service-Oriented GCI
4.3. Data and Analytic Provenance
5. System Architecture of Urban GCI and Prototypes
6. Conclusions and Discussion
Acknowledgements
Conflict of Interest
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Li, W.; Li, L.; Goodchild, M.F.; Anselin, L. A Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Economic Analysis and Spatial Decision-Making. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2013, 2, 413-431. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi2020413
Li W, Li L, Goodchild MF, Anselin L. A Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Economic Analysis and Spatial Decision-Making. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2013; 2(2):413-431. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi2020413
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Wenwen, Linna Li, Michael F. Goodchild, and Luc Anselin. 2013. "A Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Economic Analysis and Spatial Decision-Making" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2, no. 2: 413-431. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi2020413
APA StyleLi, W., Li, L., Goodchild, M. F., & Anselin, L. (2013). A Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Economic Analysis and Spatial Decision-Making. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2(2), 413-431. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi2020413