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Virtual environments for geographic visualization: potential and challenges

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Alan M. MacEachren,

Raymon Masters,

Liujian QianAuthors Info & Claims

NPIVM '99: 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

Pages 35 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/331770.331781

Published: 01 November 1999 Publication History

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.

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