Standardization of seismic tomographic models and earthquake focal mechanisms data sets based on web technologies, visualization with keyhole markup language

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-56

  Postpischl, Luca ^a   Danecek, Peter ^a   Morelli, Andrea ^a   Pondrelli, Silvia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geophysics; Google Earth; JSON; KML; Seismology; Semantic data

Indexed keywords

DATA EXCHANGE; DATA SETS; DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY; EARTH MODELS; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; FLEXIBLE PLATFORMS; FOCAL MECHANISM; GOOGLE EARTH; GRAPHICAL TOOLS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; INTUITIVE INTERFACES; JAVASCRIPT; JSON; KML; MOMENT TENSORS; RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE; SCIENTIFIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHIC MODELS; SEMANTIC APPROACH; SEMANTIC DATA; SEMANTIC NOTATION; TOMOGRAPHIC; VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS; WEB TECHNOLOGIES; XML FRAMEWORK;

EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 78650758083     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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