Geoinformatics : Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences

Cambridge University Press

GeoinformaticsCyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences\nAuthor(s): G. Randy Keller, Chaitanya Baru\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108446587, 978-1108446587\nSynopsis\nAdvanced information technology infrastructure is increasingly being employed in the Earth sciences to provide researchers with efficient access to massive central databases and to integrate diversely formatted information from a variety of sources. These geoinformatics initiatives enable manipulation, modeling and visualization of data in a consistent way, and are helping to develop integrated Earth models at various scales, and from the near surface to the deep interior. This book uses a series of case studies to demonstrate computer and database use across the geosciences. Chapters are thematically grouped into sections that cover data collection and management; modeling and community computational codes; visualizati.