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ISPRS GeoViz Working Group Executive 2012-16

ISPRS GeoViz Working Group Executive 2012-16

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As Chair of the ISPRS WG II/6 on Geoviz and Virtual Reality I have great pleasure in introducing our working group executive for 2012-16. Dr Arzu Coltekin, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Co-Chair) Dr Bo Wu, Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Co-Chair) Dr Martin Tomko, Architecture Building and Planning Faculty, The University of Melbourne (Research Secretary) Also, I would like to thank Dr Andy Hudson-Smith who has been co-chair for 2008-2012 working…

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ICA – ISPRS Joint Sessions on Web based Geovisualisation – call for papers due 1st of Nov

ICA – ISPRS Joint Sessions on Web based Geovisualisation – call for papers due 1st of Nov

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The ICA 2013 conference to be held in Dresden, Germany 25-30th August (www.icc2013.org) will provide a forum for the presentation of scientific papers illustrating the efforts  of  the research  community,  professional  papers  describing the  cutting‐edge  methods  employed  by  mapping organisations, meetings of the ICA Commissions and Working Groups, furthering their international collaborative efforts to advance knowledge and techniques. The joint sessions of the ICA and ISPRS will provide a forum for presenting papers that advance the knowledge and techniques of geovisualization in web…

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Urban Visualisation Tool

Urban Visualisation Tool

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Came across this site – Trulia, which provides an easy set of tools for visualising a range of urban phenomena including for example commute distance across San Francisco .  There are a number of other datasets  which can also be visualised including  property type, crimes rates, schools rating and the location of amenities. The site has been set up to support buyers ans sellers in the resident real estate market. However, its potential for urban research in areas such as…

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Digital Earth – Virtual Nations – Data Cities

Digital Earth – Virtual Nations – Data Cities

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Digital Earth – Virtual Nations – Data Cities is a d_city publication available freely as an e-book or can be purchased hard copy. Editors Davina Jackson and Richard Simpson have put together  an astonishing resource which covers a wide expanse of topics on how data can be visualised and modelled to inform  problems spanning the natural systems to the built environment and cities. Our working group co-chair Dy Andy Hudson-Smith features on p 22. I would recommend this online resource to…

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Using a real-time interactive mapping device to support marine spatial planning

Using a real-time interactive mapping device to support marine spatial planning

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One of the members of our working group Gustavo Arciniegas and his colleagues have published another interesting research paper on the application of real-time interactive mapping  device (touch-table) for supporting collaborative planning in developing renewal offshore energy off the coast of Scottland. The combination of GIS, MCE and the touch-table technology were used to support a local knowledge workshop and  a negotiation workshop. This is the first time such an approach  has been used to support marine spatial planning off…

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Extension Activity Support System (EASY): A Web-Based Prototype for Facilitating Farm Management

Extension Activity Support System (EASY): A Web-Based Prototype for Facilitating Farm Management

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The seventh of a series of papers as part of a special issue of the Open Access Journal Future Internet on the theme “Internet and Landscapes“, as edited by the ISPRS Working II/6 on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality (Chris Pettit and Arzu Coltekin) has now been published by Kim Lowell, Ian Miller, Chris Pettit, and Eloise Seymour. This paper examines how online mapping can support agricultural extension activities. The specifications of a web based Extension Activity Support System (EASY) tool…

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An Online Landscape Object Library to Support Interactive Landscape Planning

An Online Landscape Object Library to Support Interactive Landscape Planning

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The sixth of a series of papers as part of a special issue of the Open Access Journal Future Internet on the theme “Internet and Landscapes“, as edited by the ISPRS Working II/6 on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality (Chris Pettit and Arzu Coltekin) has now been published by  Subhash Sharma, Chris Pettit, Ian Bishop, Pang Chan and Falak Sheth. This paper examines how geo-visualisation tools can provide useful participatory planning support in addressing issues of land productivity and sustainability. The…

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High Quality Geographic Services and Bandwidth Limitations

High Quality Geographic Services and Bandwidth Limitations

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The fifth of a series of papers as part of a special issue of the Open Access Journal Future Internet on the theme “Internet and Landscapes“, as edited by the ISPRS Working II/6 on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality (Chris Pettit and Arzu Coltekin) has now been published by Arzu Coltekin and Tumasch Reichenbacher. This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in human-centric intelligent data management approaches for geographic visualizations when faced with bandwidth limitations. With…

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A Service-Oriented Architecture for Proactive Geospatial Information Services

A Service-Oriented Architecture for Proactive Geospatial Information Services

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The fourth of a series of papers as part of a special issue of the Open Access Journal Future Internet on the theme “Internet and Landscapes“, as edited by the ISPRS Working II/6 on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality (Chris Pettit and Arzu Coltekin) has now been published by Haifeng Li and Bo Wu. This paper presents a service-orientated architecture for proactive geospatial information services (PGIS), which integrates the sensors, data, processing, and human services. The results show that the basic…

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Natural Resource Knowledge and Information Management via the Victorian Resources Online Website

Natural Resource Knowledge and Information Management via the Victorian Resources Online Website

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The third second of a series of papers as part of a special issue of the Open Access Journal Future Internet on the theme “Internet and Landscapes“, as edited by the ISPRS Working II/6 on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality (Chris Pettit and Arzu Coltekin) has now been published by Mark Imhof, Matthew Cox, Angela Fadersen, Wayne Harvey, Sonia Thompson, David Rees and Christopher Pettit. The paper presents a natural resource knowledge website, known as Victoria Resources Online (VRO).  VRO is…

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