Ebook: TORUS 1 -- toward an open resource using services cloud computing for environmental data

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: Why TORUS? Toward an Open Resource Using Services, or How to Bring Environmental Science Closer to Cloud Computing -- Structure of the book -- PART 1: Integrated Analysis in Geography: The Way to Cloud Computing -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Introduction: the landscape as a system -- 1. Geographical Information and Landscape, Elements of Formalization -- 2. Sampling Strategies -- 2.1. References -- 3. Characterization of the Spatial Structure -- 4. Thematic Information Structures