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The WEPP-GIS application provides a glimpse of
how future Internet-based applications will be
developed. With improvements in bandwidth and
Internet access, applications will increasingly be
based on distributed systems where input data
will be accessed as needed and data will be stored
temporarily. It is foreseeable that tools such as
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services in themselves, in which the WEPP-GIS
client would request their services. What is
known for certain is that Internet-based applica-
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nism by which most users apply erosion models.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge the Arizona
Agricultural Experiment Station and the
USDA Agricultural Research Service Southwest
Watershed Research Center for their support.
The authors also wish to acknowledge that the
above review was not intended to be all-inclusive
and we deeply apologize to all the worthy devel-
opers we did not cite.
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