Spatial cloud computing: how can the geospatial sciences use and help shape cloud computing?

Spatial cloud computing: how can the geospatial sciences use and help shape cloud computing? Chaowei Yang a , Michael Goodchild b , Qunying Huang a , Doug Nebert c , Robert Raskin d , Yan Xu e , Myra Bambacus f & Daniel Fay e a Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science and Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4444, USA b Department of Geography, University of California, 5707 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-4060, USA c Federal Geographic Data Committee, 590 National Center, Reston, VA, 20192, USA d NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA, 91109, USA e Microsoft Research Connections, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA f NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 700, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA