Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on New Paradigms for Invormation Visualization and Manipulation, Kansas City,Nov. 6, 1999.

Virtual Environments for Geographic Visualization:

Potential and Challenges

Alan M. MacEachren,^1&2 Robert Edsall,¹ Daniel Haug,¹ Ryan Baxter,¹ George Otto,² Raymon Masters,² Sven Fuhrmann, ^1&3 Liujian Qian ¹

¹GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Penn State University
²Center for Academic Computing, Penn State University
³Institute for Geoinformatics, WWU, Münster

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 (geovisualization) and on some of the challenges that must be addressed if the potential of VE is to be realized in this context.

Keywords: virtual reality, scientific visualization, maps, interactivity, collaboration
 
 

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