期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2009
卷号：XXXVIII-4/W10
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：The emergence of Virtual Globe software systems offer tremendous opportunities, such as providing a new generation of learning tools to help students digest large-scale geospatial information about the world, and supporting domain expert analyses in an interactive three-dimensional virtual environment. In the meantime, Web Service technologies, especially those standards-based interoperable geospatial services, make a large amount of geo-processing functionalities easily accessible to educational users and researchers like their local resources. This paper presents a recent effort funded by an ISPRS Scientific Initiative project to integrate Virtual Globes and Web Service technologies for higher-education teaching and research. The integration combines the visualization and communication power of Virtual Globes with the powerful analysis functionalities of geospatial Web Services to help students and researchers investigate various scientific problems in an environment with natural and intuitive user experiences. This integration will provide analysis-enhanced Virtual Globes for in-classroom teaching and scientific research. Reports on recent progresses are provided
关键词：Virtual Globe; Web Service; Geospatial; Education; GeoGlobe; GeoPW
