Integrated geoscience databanks for interactive analysis and visualization
作者机构:K-tron Research Inc.RawalpindiPakistan Department of Earth SciencesQuaid-i-Azam UniversityIslamabadPakistan
出 版 物:《International Journal of Digital Earth》 (国际数字地球学报(英文))
年 卷 期:2013年第6卷第S2期
页 面:41-49页
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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)]
主 题:distributed data geospatial data integration spatial data infrastructure data analysis visualization digital country
摘 要:There has been a worldwide revolution in geoscientific data availability and *** effectively infinite and instantaneous free access to geoscientific data from the World Wide System of Geoscience Data Centers and Virtual Observatories is *** addition,national databanks and commercially available large exploration data-sets also *** distributed data resources impose challenges for the future to move toward their objective integration and visualization to discover new *** advancements can facilitate meaningful interpretations and decision-making for the benefit of society at global and local *** article presents the Digital Earth initiative at a national level to address multiple domains,such as effective management of natural resources,interactive planning of exploration activities and monitoring,mapping and mitigation of natural *** discusses a distributed geospatial data infrastructure and its importance in geoscientific data integration for efficient and interactive data retrieval,analysis and *** examples are presented to demonstrate the advantages of integrated visualization in geoscientific analysis.