Visualizing 3D/4D environmental data using many-core graphics processing units (GPUs) and multi-core central processing units (CPUs)

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 78-89

  Li, Jing ^a,b   Jiang, Yunfeng ^a   Yang, Chaowei ^a   Huang, Qunying ^a   Rice, Matt ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

CyberGIS; Digital earth; EarthCube; Geovisualization; World Wind

Indexed keywords

CYBERGIS; DIGITAL EARTH; EARTHCUBE; GEO VISUALIZATIONS; WORLD WINDS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA VISUALIZATION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INTERPOLATION; METADATA; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; STORMS; VISUALIZATION;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

DATA SET; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; GIS; GRAPHICAL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84880361972     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2013.04.029     Document Type: Article

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