Visualization of geoscience data on Google Earth: Development of a data converter system for seismic tomographic models

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 373-382

  Yamagishi, Yasuko ^a   Yanaka, Hiroshi ^b   Suzuki, Katsuhiko ^a   Tsuboi, Seiji ^a   Isse, Takehi ^c   Obayashi, Masayuki ^a   Tamura, Hajimu ^a   Nagao, Hiromichi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data overlay system; Earth's mantle dynamics; Keyhole markup language; KML generator; Web application

Indexed keywords

3D GRAPHICS; AD HOC LANGUAGES; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; DATA CONVERTER; DATA OVERLAY; DATA SETS; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EARTH'S MANTLE; EARTH'S MANTLE DYNAMICS; GEOCHEMICAL DATASETS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MODEL; GEOSCIENCE DATA; GEOSCIENCES; HORIZONTAL CROSS SECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHIC MODELS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-COMPONENT; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; WEB APPLICATION;

GEOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; LINGUISTICS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEISMOLOGY; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

CONTINENTAL INTERIOR; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; EARTH SCIENCE; GRAPHICAL METHOD; MANTLE PROCESS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 75749135978     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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