TCloud: Cloud SDI model for tourism information infrastructure management
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
4-13-2018
Abstract
This chapter proposes and develops a cloud-computing-based SDI model named as TCloud for sharing, analysis, and processing of spatial data particularly in the Temple City of India, Bhubaneswar. The main purpose of TCloud is to integrate all the spatial information such as tourism sites which include various temples, mosques, churches, monuments, lakes, mountains, rivers, forests, etc. TCloud can help the decision maker or planner or common users to get enough information for their further research and studies. It has used open source GIS quantum GIS for the development of spatial database whereas QGIS plugin has been linked with quantum GIS for invoking cloud computing environment. It has also discussed the various spatial overlay analysis in TCloud environment.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
GIS Applications in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Barik, Rabindra K., Rakesh K. Lenka, Harishchandra Dubey, and Kunal Mankodiya. "TCloud: Cloud SDI model for tourism information infrastructure management." GIS Applications in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry (2018): 116-144. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5088-4.ch006.