Navigating large virtual spaces
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction - Special issue on human-virtual environment interaction
Going virtual with geographic information and scientific visualization
Computers & Geosciences - Special issue on exploratory cartographic visualization
GeoVR: a web—based tool for virtual reality presentation from 2D GIS data
Computers & Geosciences
A WFS-based mediation system for GIS interoperability
Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
TerraVision II: Visualizing Massive Terrain Databases in VRML
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Virtual GIS: A Real-Time 3D Geographic Information System
VIS '95 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Visualization '95
GeoTime Information Visualization
INFOVIS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
System Architecture for 3D TerraFly Online GIS
ISMSE '04 Proceedings of the IEEE Sixth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering
Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems
Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems
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Interoperability, interactivity and 3D visualization are three of the most important challenges related to Geographical Information Systems. In the last few years, research on interoperability has evolved from simple exchange of spatial data files, through the establishment of standardized spatial data repositories, to the first initiatives allowing management of semantic aspects of data. Interoperability has been mainly hampered by the need to agree on standards, and to develop appropriate tools and methods. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has proposed a number of standards with the intention of promoting interoperability through the use of open services such as Web Mapping Service (WMS), Web Processing Service (WPS), Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS). However, there are a number of open issues regarding interactivity, 3D data visualization, fault tolerance, scalability, server-independent implementation, delayed-time transactions, to name but a few, that clearly reflect the need for further study and discussion. This paper presents a service-oriented architecture in the context of interoperable Web 3D GIS applications, designed to support features such as manipulation, processing and visual analysis of geographical information.