Geospatial information systems on cloud computing environment : a systematic review

Abstract EN

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is a collection of tools to collect, store, analyze, manage and display data that linked to geographic locations.

GIS plays a vital role in wide range of disciplines and domains.

Cloud Computing has become popular technology in recent years, it can described as technology to provide IT resources, services and products on demands.

Cloud Computing can be used to store large spatial data, perform complex spatial analysis and Geocomputation on cloud.

This paper aims to provides a systematic review on Cloud GIS applications to introduce an organized view of the current state of the field of GIS applications based on cloud computing environment by looking for answers for two main question.

How to design and develop a Cloud based platform for Geospatial Information and Geospatial Analysis, What are the GIS solutions, functions and services provided in Cloud Computing.

The search for articles conducted in IEEE, Elsevier Science Direct, ACM Digital Library and Google Scholar.

Retried articles are analyzed according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, finally articles selected for review.

Forty-one articles were selected on GIS in cloud computing with different applications, methodsand techniques.

The selected articles are classified based on the articles topic, articles are classified to four classes, these classes are Cloud GIS approaches, Cloud GIS Architecture, Solutions and Cloud GIS functions.