Modeling and visualizing borehole information on virtual globes using KML

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 62-70

  Zhu, Liang feng ^a   Wang, Xi feng ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3D visualization; Borehole; Data sharing; KML; Virtual globe

Indexed keywords

3D VISUALIZATION; DATA SHARING; GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION; KML; MULTISCALE REPRESENTATIONS; UNIVERSAL PLATFORM; VIRTUAL GLOBE;

BOREHOLES; MARKUP LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION; DATA HANDLING; DATA VISUALIZATION; GEOLOGY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BOREHOLE; DATABASE; INTERNET; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION; AUTOMATION; DATA PROCESSING; SOFTWARE;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84886409915     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2013.09.016     Document Type: Article

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