Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Ontology Based Context Modeling and Reasoning using OWL
PERCOMW '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Web-a-where: geotagging web content
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
INFOVIS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Pushing Doors for Modeling Contexts with OWL DL a Case Study
PERCOMW '06 Proceedings of the 4th annual IEEE international conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
HLT-NAACL-GEOREF '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Analysis of geographic references - Volume 1
Awareness and teamwork in computer-supported collaborations
Interacting with Computers
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Real-Time News Event Extraction for Global Crisis Monitoring
NLDB '08 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Natural Language and Information Systems: Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
FemaRepViz: Automatic Extraction and Geo-Temporal Visualization of FEMA National Situation Updates
VAST '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
A virtual globe tool for searching and visualizing geo-referenced media resources in social networks
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on 3D Web Technology
Big Board: Teleconferencing Over Maps for Shared Situational Awareness
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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This paper presents research on the use of virtual globes to support the development of disaster event situation awareness in humans via open source information analysis and visualization. The key technology used for this research is the Context Discovery Application (CDA), which is a geovisual analytic environment designed to integrate implicit geographic information with Google Earth(TM). A case study of humanitarian disaster management is used to demonstrate the unique abilities of the CDA and Google Earth^T^M to support situation awareness. The paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on the utility of the virtual globes to support situation awareness for disaster management using implicit geographic information. The evidence presented was derived from evaluations by disaster management practitioners at the United Nations (UN) ReliefWeb project, an extremely relevant, yet difficult group to access for conducting academic disaster management research. Finally, ideas for future research on developing virtual globe applications to support situation awareness are described.