Von Visionen, Positionen und virtuellen Geistern
| dc.contributor.author | Strobl, Josef | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-16T12:21:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-16T12:21:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description.abstract | en»Imagine a young child going to a Digital Earth exhibit … she sees Earth as it appears from space … she zooms in, using higher and higher levels of resolution, to see continents, then regions, countries, cities, and finally individual houses, trees, and other natural and man-made objects. Having found an area of the planet she is interested in exploring, she takes the equivalent of a ›magic carpet ride‹ through a 3-D visualization of the terrain. Of course … she is able to request information on land cover, distribution of plant and animal species, real-time weather, roads, political boundaries, and population. She can also visualize the environmental information that she and other students all over the world have collected as part of the GLOBE project. […] To prepare for her family’s vacation to Yellowstone National Park, for example, she plans the perfect hike to the geysers, bison, and bighorn sheep that she has just read about. In fact, she can follow the trail visually from start to finish before she ever leaves …« | |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 2198-2775 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/14683 | |
| dc.publisher | Springer | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 47, No. 6 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik | |
| dc.title | Von Visionen, Positionen und virtuellen Geistern | |
| dc.type | Text/Journal Article | |
| gi.citation.endPage | 5 | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 4 |