Geolocating and georeferencing: GIS tools for ancient maps visualisation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 529-538

  Chias, P ^a   Abad, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cartographic heritage; Digital libraries; GIS; Multilingual and multiformat databases; Online accessibility

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHIC HERITAGE; CULTURAL HERITAGES; DATA SETS; DIGITAL MAP; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOLOCATIONS; GEOREFERENCING; GIS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MULTILINGUAL AND MULTIFORMAT DATABASES; MULTILINGUAL DATABASE; NEW CONCEPT; ONLINE ACCESSIBILITY; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; VISUALISATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MAPS; VISUALIZATION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 70449485824     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2009.96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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