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Virtual reality in geography /
Created for researching and teaching using techniques from the field of virtual reality. Of great interest to those working in GIS, Geography and Computer Science.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Virtual reality in geography: an introduction; Introduction to VR and technology; Geography in VR: context; Virtual archaeologies and the hyper-real: or, what does it mean to describe something as virtually-real?; Web-based virtual environments; Virtual reality and GIS: applications, trends and directions; Visual exploration of virtual environments; Creating information-rich virtual environments with geo-referenced digital panoramic imagery; Virtual landscapes; Introduction; Visualizing sustainable agricultural landscapes
- The application of VR modelling in assessing potential visual impacts of rural developmentMulti-resolution virtual environments as a visualization front-end to GIS; Visualizing the structure and scale dependency of landscapes; Providing context in virtual reality: the example of a CAL package for mountain navigation; A Tour of the Tors; Virtual cities; Introduction; Data collection issues in virtual reality for urban geographical representation and modelling; Virtual world heritage cities: the ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya reconstructed; Visualizing data components of the urban scene
- Virtuality and cities: definitions, geographies, designs'Other' worlds; 'Other' worlds: augmented, comprehensible, non-material spaces; Explorations in AlphaWorld: the geography of 3D virtual worlds on the Internet; Visualizing data quality through interactive metadata browsing; There's no there there: virtual reality, space and geographic visualization; Virtual reality: an exploratory tool for investigating the cognitive mapping and navigational skills of visually-impaired people; Multi-modal virtual reality for presenting geographic information; Index