Abstract Since Google Earth was first released in 2005, it has attracted hundreds of millions
of users worldwide and made a profound impact on both academia and industry. It can be …

The paper presents a sequential use of the AWK and GNU Octave programming languages
integrated with Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for geospatial data analysis. The geographic …

Over the last ten years millions of gigabytes of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer) data have been generated which is forcing the remote sensing users …

Cesium Markup Language (CZML) is an emerging specification for the representation and
exchange of time-dynamic geospatial objects on virtual globes. The principal focus of CZML …

Background Increasingly large amounts of DNA sequencing data are being generated
within the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI). The traditional file system struggles to …

The objective of this chapter is to describe building an eScience infrastructure suitable for
use with environmental sciences and especially with hydrological science applications. The …

Abstract Three dimensional (3D) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are the appropriate
systems for storing, manipulating and visualizing spatial data in urban environments …

Virtual Globes have been widely used in all research fields to represent geospatial data.
Despite the popularity, only a few empirical studies have been conducted to understand how …

Geomorphological landforms of the oceanic trenches, their formation and variation of the
geometric shapes is a question of special importance to the scientific community in marine …

Google Earth (GE) has become a powerful tool for geological modeling and visualization. An
interesting and useful feature of GE, Google Street View, can allow the GE users to view …