SolidEarth: a new Digital Earth system for the modeling and visualization of the whole Earth space

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 524-539

  Zhu, Liangfeng ^a   Sun, Jianzhong ^b   Li, Changling ^c   Zhang, Bing ^a,d  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Digital Earth; Earth space; full dimensionality; visualization

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84911943760     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-014-0438-7     Document Type: Article

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