Virtual Geographic Environment: A Workspace for Computer-Aided Geographic Experiments

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 465-482

  Lin, Hui ^a   Chen, Min ^a   Lu, Guonian ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

subenvironments of VGE; systematic framework for VGE; virtual geographic environment (VGE)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; VISUALIZATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; MODELING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84876437388     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.689234     Document Type: Article

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