NASA WEBWORLDWIND: MULTIDIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL GLOBE FOR GEO BIG DATA VISUALIZATION

@article{Brovelli2016NASAWM,
  title={NASA WEBWORLDWIND: MULTIDIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL GLOBE FOR GEO BIG DATA VISUALIZATION},
  author={Maria Antonia Brovelli and Patrick J. Hogan and Gabriele Prestifilippo and Giorgio Zamboni},
  journal={ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences},
  year={2016},
  pages={563-566}
}
  • M. Brovelli, Patrick J. Hogan, G. Zamboni
  • Published 8 June 2016
  • Computer Science
  • ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
In this paper, we presented a web application created using the NASA WebWorldWind framework. The application is capable of visualizing n-dimensional data using a Voxel model. In this case study, we handled social media data and Call Detailed Records (CDR) of telecommunication networks. These were retrieved from the "BigData Challenge 2015" of Telecom Italia. We focused on the visualization process for a suitable way to show this geo-data in a 3D environment, incorporating more than three… 
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