Virtual environments for geographic visualization: potential and challenges

  • Authors:
  • Alan M. MacEachren;Robert Edsall;Daniel Haug;Ryan Baxter;George Otto;Raymon Masters;Sven Fuhrmann;Liujian Qian

  • Affiliations:
  • GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Penn State University and Center for Academic Computing, Penn State University;GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Penn State University;GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Penn State University;GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Penn State University;Center for Academic Computing, Penn State University;Center for Academic Computing, Penn State University;GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Penn State University and Institute for Geoinformatics, WWU, Münster;GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Penn State University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1999 workshop on new paradigms in information visualization and manipulation in conjunction with the eighth ACM internation conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Virtual environment (VE) technologies have considerable potential to extend the power of information visualization methods, and those of scientific visualization more broadly. Our specific focus here is on VE technologies as a medium for geographic visualization and on some of the challenges that must be addressed if the potential of VE is to be realized in this context.