Using collaborative virtual environments to plan wind energy installations

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2348-2355

  Bishop, Ian D ^a   Stock, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaborative virtual environments; Game engines; Wind farm planning

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATIVE PLANNING; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; DECISION PROCESS; EFFECTIVE ENERGY; GAME ENGINE; GIS DATA; GIS-DATABASE; MULTIPLE PLANNING; PLANNING PROCESS; PROPORTION OF ENERGY; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; STILL IMAGES; VICTORIA , AUSTRALIA; VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES; VISUALISATION; WIND ENERGY; WIND FARM PLANNING;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SIEVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

DATABASE; GIS; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SATELLITE DATA; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 77954865234     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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