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Virtual globe
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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
Lorraine Biggrigg
2017
Corpus ID: 115868237
Historic globes are fragile objects. Few survive without some evidence of change to the varied materials used in their…
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2016
2016
Visualizing the Structure of the Earth's Lithosphere on the Google Earth Virtual-Globe Platform
Liang-feng Zhu
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Wensheng Kan
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Yu Zhang
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Jianzhong Sun
ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf.
2016
Corpus ID: 13462294
While many of the current methods for representing the existing global lithospheric models are suitable for academic…
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Review
2013
Review
2013
PARTICIPATORY GIS: EXPERIMENTATIONS FOR A 3D SOCIAL VIRTUAL GLOBE
M. Brovelli
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M. Minghini
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G. Zamboni
2013
Corpus ID: 54036665
The dawn of GeoWeb 2.0, the geographic extension of Web 2.0, has opened new possibilities in terms of online dissemination and…
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2011
2011
Standardization of seismic tomographic models and earthquake focal mechanisms data sets based on web technologies, visualization with keyhole markup language
L. Postpischl
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P. Danecek
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A. Morelli
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S. Pondrelli
Computational Geosciences
2011
Corpus ID: 36277923
2011
2011
Geo-visualization Fortran library
Gen-Tao Chiang
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T. White
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M. Dove
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C. Bovolo
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J. Ewen
Computational Geosciences
2011
Corpus ID: 10718067
2010
2010
MIMEXT: a KML Extension for Georeferencing and Easy Share MIME Type Resources
Carlos Abargues
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Arturo Beltrán
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C. Granell
AGILE Conf.
2010
Corpus ID: 15625886
Georeferenced information is becoming more important in today’s society leading to different techniques for georeferencing…
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2009
2009
GI-Cat: A Mediation Solution for Building a Clearinghouse Catalog Service
S. Nativi
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L. Bigagli
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P. Mazzetti
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E. Boldrini
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F. Papeschi
International Conference on Advanced Geographic…
2009
Corpus ID: 14995210
The development of a clearinghouse catalog solution arises from the need of interoperability among different communities. This…
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Review
2008
Review
2008
Improving interaction with virtual globes through spatial thinking: helping users ask "why?"
Johannes Schöning
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Brent J. Hecht
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M. Raubal
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A. Krüger
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M. Marsh
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Michael Rohs
International Conference on Intelligent User…
2008
Corpus ID: 12207836
Virtual globes have progressed from little-known technology to broadly popular software in a mere few years. We investigated this…
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2005
2005
OneGlobe-Building and Browsing a Transient Digital Earth from Distributed , Heterogeneous Sources
G. Misund
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M. Granlund
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Herman Kol̊as
2005
Corpus ID: 12158621
We propose a low-cost and easy-to-maintain approach to generating interactive 3D visualizations of geodata on a global scale. The…
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2005
2005
Design of the ImmersiveTouch TM : a High-Performance Haptic Augmented Virtual Reality System
C. Luciano
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P. Banerjee
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L. Florea
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Greg Dawe
2005
Corpus ID: 8753783
ImmersiveTouch is the next generation of augmented virtual reality technology, being the first system that integrates a haptic…
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