A Review on Geospatial Information Systems in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing technology is one of the most important technology in information systems (IS) today. It is an important alternative that ensures powerful data processing, storage and exchange. And as a result of the emergence of multiple sources of spatial data and their tremendous growth and the expansion of areas of use of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), it became necessary to integrate these tow technologies to achieve the optimum benefit of these technologies to make Geospatial Information Systems capable of accommodating the large, rapid, and diverse amounts of spatial data available nowadays. Cloud computing is a new paradigm in Geographic Information Systems. Although there are many publications related to cloud computing in Geographic Information System, there is no systematic review of current research taxonomies .The purpose of this paper is to conduct a survey on GIS Cloud Computing. It addresses the different GIS Cloud frameworks or architectures. The search for articles carried out in general academic databases including the Scopus database, Web of Science Core Collection, and Google Scholar Citations. Retried articles are analysed according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, finally articles selected for review.