Geographical Information System: Software handling geographical info rmation and its visual representation. See also
‘raster data’ and ‘vector data’.
Granularity: The fineness or coarseness of the detail
available from a given data source.
Grid: A distributed computing infrastructure that
combines parallel and distributed computer platforms to enable computational
operations exceeding the capacities of individual desktop computers.
Grid-enabling: Adapting a dataset to make it accessible
programmatically over the Grid.
