A Parallel Algorithm for Geoprocessing
Keywords:
GIS, GRASS, Vegetation Indices, Chunk, Region, NDVI, GARI, GVIAbstract
Geographic information systems (GIS) play a vital role in environment-related issues, from which well-known is the calculation of vegetation indices (VI) using the satellite images. In this paper a parallel algorithm for geoprocessing of VI’s is introduced with appropriate benchmarkings, which were performed using high- performance computing (HPC) resources.
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