Geographic analysis-oriented Virtual Geographic Environment: Framework, structure and functions

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 733-743

  Lü, Guo Nian ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

collaborative environment; data environment; expression environment; modeling environment; VGE

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; DATA ENVIRONMENT; EXPRESSION ENVIRONMENT; MODELING ENVIRONMENT; VGE;

DATA INTERPRETATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; SIMULATION;

EID: 79955066063     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4193-2     Document Type: Article

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