Virtual globes: Serving science and society

Information (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 372-390

  Blaschke, Thomas ^a   Donert, Karl ^b   Gossette, Frank ^c   Kienberger, Stefan ^a   Marani, Martin ^d   Qureshi, Salman ^a,e   Tiede, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b European Association of Geographers   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital earth; Geographic information; Geographic information science; GIS; GIScience; Google earth; Neogeography; Virtual globes

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL EARTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; GISCIENCE; NEOGEOGRAPHY; VIRTUAL GLOBES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

EID: 84866146600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info3030372     Document Type: Article

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