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Virtual globe

Known as: Geographic exploration system, Virtual globes 
A virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of the Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with… 
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2017
2017
Revisiting the Treatment of a Pair of Malby Globes at the Marriott Library, University of Utah
Historic globes are fragile objects. Few survive without some evidence of change to the varied materials used in their… 
2016
2016
Visualizing the Structure of the Earth's Lithosphere on the Google Earth Virtual-Globe Platform
While many of the current methods for representing the existing global lithospheric models are suitable for academic… 
Review
2013
Review
2013
PARTICIPATORY GIS: EXPERIMENTATIONS FOR A 3D SOCIAL VIRTUAL GLOBE
The dawn of GeoWeb 2.0, the geographic extension of Web 2.0, has opened new possibilities in terms of online dissemination and… 
2011
2011
Standardization of seismic tomographic models and earthquake focal mechanisms data sets based on web technologies, visualization with keyhole markup language
2011
2011
Geo-visualization Fortran library
2010
2010
MIMEXT: a KML Extension for Georeferencing and Easy Share MIME Type Resources
Georeferenced information is becoming more important in today’s society leading to different techniques for georeferencing… 
2009
2009
GI-Cat: A Mediation Solution for Building a Clearinghouse Catalog Service
The development of a clearinghouse catalog solution arises from the need of interoperability among different communities. This… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Improving interaction with virtual globes through spatial thinking: helping users ask "why?"
Virtual globes have progressed from little-known technology to broadly popular software in a mere few years. We investigated this… 
2005
2005
OneGlobe-Building and Browsing a Transient Digital Earth from Distributed , Heterogeneous Sources
We propose a low-cost and easy-to-maintain approach to generating interactive 3D visualizations of geodata on a global scale. The… 
2005
2005
Design of the ImmersiveTouch TM : a High-Performance Haptic Augmented Virtual Reality System
ImmersiveTouch is the next generation of augmented virtual reality technology, being the first system that integrates a haptic… 
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