The use cases of digital earth

作     者：M.F.Goodchild 

作者机构：National Center for Geographic Information and Analysisand Department of GeographyUniversity of CaliforniaSanta BarbaraCA 93106-4060USA 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Digital Earth》 (国际数字地球学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2008年第1卷第1期

页      面：31-42,I0003页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Army Research Office 

主　　题：use case geobrowser GIS spatial concept digital earth 

摘      要：The formal process of system design begins with the identification of use *** such cases are readily apparent for the current generation of geobrowsers,though the text of the 1998 Gore speech refers to *** analysis of the use cases of geographic information systems(GIS)reveals similarities with the functionality of geobrowsers,inviting the view that the two forms of geographic information technology will eventually ***,experience suggests that users are finding very different ways of exploiting geobrowsers,and two examples are discussed in *** uses can be interpreted within a broad framework of spatial concepts,and the paper concludes that this framework provides a better guide to the future of geobrowsers and Digital Earth than current GIS technology.