A review on open source architecture in Geographical Information Systems

Author

Selamat, M.H. ; Othman, M.S. ; Shamsuddin, N.H.M. ; Zukepli, N.I.M. ; Hassan, A.F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

Volume

2

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 June 2012

Firstpage

962

Lastpage

966

Abstract

Geographical Information System (GIS) has been widely used to effectively access spatial data. The creation of GIS software can be traced back to the 1960s. This GIS software has gone through a lot of changes since to meet the consumer needs. Nowadays, there is abundance of GIS software products created and thus the need for them to be recorded in detail arises. This research aims to list the various GIS Desktop software products created since 1960s and explain their uses in GIS. This research paper will also be useful to other researchers to study the software updates and their applications in other fields.

Keywords

geographic information systems; public domain software; GIS desktop software products; geographical information systems; open source architecture; spatial data; Agriculture; Geographic information systems; Java; Licenses; Reliability; Software; Visualization; Application; Geographical Information System; Open Source; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer & Information Science (ICCIS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpeu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1937-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCISci.2012.6297165

Filename

6297165