Physical Visualization of Geospatial Datasets

Geospatial datasets are too complex to easily visualize and understand on a computer screen. Combining digital fabrication with a discrete global grid system (DGGS) can produce physical models of the Earth for visualizing multiresolution geospatial datasets. This proposed approach includes a mechanism for attaching a set of 3D printed segments to produce a scalable model of the Earth. The authors have produced two models that support the attachment of different datasets both in 2D and 3D format.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

• Publication date

  2017-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Computer Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/MCG.2017.38PMID 28459673
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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