Alan M. MacEachren
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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- Virtual environments for geographic visualization: potential and challenges
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