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High Performance Geospatial Analysis On Emerging Parallel Architectures, Seth Warn
High Performance Geospatial Analysis On Emerging Parallel Architectures, Seth Warn
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Geographic information systems (GIS) are performing increasingly sophisticated analyses on growing data sets. These analyses demand high performance. At the same time, modern computing platforms increasingly derive their performance from several forms of parallelism. This dissertation explores the available parallelism in several GIS-applied algorithms: viewshed calculation, image feature transform, and feature analysis. It presents implementations of these algorithms that exploit parallel processing to reduce execution time, and analyzes the effectiveness of the implementations in their use of parallel processing.