Visualization techniques in field geology education: A case study from Western Ireland

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 461, Issue , 2009, Pages 105-115

  Whitmeyer, Steven ^a   Feely, Martin ^b   De Paor, Declan ^c   Hennessy, Ronan ^b   Whitmeyer, Shelley ^a   Nicoletti, Jeremy ^a   Santangelo, Bethany ^d   Daniels, Jillian ^d   Rivera, Michael ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA VISUALIZATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER-BASED VISUALIZATION; FIELD DATA COLLECTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; GRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

STUDENTS;

ACCESSIBILITY; COGNITION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; GEOLOGY; GIS; GPS; LEARNING; REAL TIME; SOFTWARE; STUDENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

IRELAND;

EID: 77951437661     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2461(10)     Document Type: Article

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