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distributed GIS  

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  • Distributed GIS is an integrated framework to combine multiple graphic information systems (GIS) resources and GIS workstations and servers located in different physical places for high-level interoperability and federation of GIS operations and user tasks. Distributed GIS can provide various geographic information, spatial analytical functions, and GIS Web services by linking multiple GIS and geographic information services together via wired or wireless networks. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Distributed GIS]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VMFCCN9N-5

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