What does Google Earth Mean for the Social Sciences?

Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 11-23

  Goodchild, Michael F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc2Earth simple to use third party extension; Dutton's Quaternary Triangular Mesh (QTM); ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer and global map concept; Google Earth and fundamental spatial concepts; Google Earth API; Google Earth technology and Gore Digital Earth; Google Earth 'God's eye view' and 'the view from nowhere'; Google Earth visualization easy to use service; Social science geobrowsers using Google Earth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889332912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470987643.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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