The starting point of this paper is the idea that a comprehensive understanding of the earth and its systems calls for consideration of bygone views of the world.Creating facsimiles of antique globes in the form of di...The starting point of this paper is the idea that a comprehensive understanding of the earth and its systems calls for consideration of bygone views of the world.Creating facsimiles of antique globes in the form of digital globes provides a new opportunity to make such bygone world views accessible to a wide scientific audience.However,up to now,little practical experience in applying digital technology on globes has been made.Considering these attempts by thorough synopsis,this article deduces a comprehensive approach on virtual representations of antique globes that can be described by the superordinate concept of virtual representation.This concept comprises facilities of data acquisition of the original globe,ways of visualising the digitised globe and its final cartographic preparation.Applications that arise from this procedure are exemplified through both virtual hyperglobes and tactile hyperglobes.New findings on a 16th century earth globe are encouraging results of the presented virtual representation approach,which may offer a sustainable visualisation platform of interdisciplinary research.展开更多
The Austrian node of the Natural Resources Satellite Remote Sensing Cloud Service Platform was established in 2016 through a cooperation agreement between the Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center(LASAC),Mi...The Austrian node of the Natural Resources Satellite Remote Sensing Cloud Service Platform was established in 2016 through a cooperation agreement between the Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center(LASAC),Ministry of Natural Resources of the Peoples Republic of China and the University of Vienna,Austria.Under this agreement panchromatic and multi-spectral data of the Chinese ZY-3 satellite are pushed to the server at the University of Vienna for use in education and research.So far,nearly 500 GB of data have been uploaded to the server.This technical note briefly introduces the ZY-3 system and illustrates the implementation of the agreement by the first China-Sat Workshop and several case studies.Some of them are already completed,others are still ongoing.They include a geometric accuracy validation of ZY-3 data,an animated visualization of image quick views on a spherical display to demonstrate the time series of the image coverage for Austria and Laos,and the use of ZY-3 data to study the spread of bark beetle in the province of Lower Austria.An accuracy study of DTMs from ZY-3 stereo data,as well as a land cover analysis and comparison of Austria with ZY-3 and other sensors are still ongoing.展开更多
文摘The starting point of this paper is the idea that a comprehensive understanding of the earth and its systems calls for consideration of bygone views of the world.Creating facsimiles of antique globes in the form of digital globes provides a new opportunity to make such bygone world views accessible to a wide scientific audience.However,up to now,little practical experience in applying digital technology on globes has been made.Considering these attempts by thorough synopsis,this article deduces a comprehensive approach on virtual representations of antique globes that can be described by the superordinate concept of virtual representation.This concept comprises facilities of data acquisition of the original globe,ways of visualising the digitised globe and its final cartographic preparation.Applications that arise from this procedure are exemplified through both virtual hyperglobes and tactile hyperglobes.New findings on a 16th century earth globe are encouraging results of the presented virtual representation approach,which may offer a sustainable visualisation platform of interdisciplinary research.
基金This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China for Strategic International Cooperation in Science and Technology Innovation(Grant No.2016YFE0205300)as well as a grant under the Eurasia Pacific UNINET program of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education,Science and Research to the University of Vienna(Grant No.EPU 32/2017).
文摘The Austrian node of the Natural Resources Satellite Remote Sensing Cloud Service Platform was established in 2016 through a cooperation agreement between the Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center(LASAC),Ministry of Natural Resources of the Peoples Republic of China and the University of Vienna,Austria.Under this agreement panchromatic and multi-spectral data of the Chinese ZY-3 satellite are pushed to the server at the University of Vienna for use in education and research.So far,nearly 500 GB of data have been uploaded to the server.This technical note briefly introduces the ZY-3 system and illustrates the implementation of the agreement by the first China-Sat Workshop and several case studies.Some of them are already completed,others are still ongoing.They include a geometric accuracy validation of ZY-3 data,an animated visualization of image quick views on a spherical display to demonstrate the time series of the image coverage for Austria and Laos,and the use of ZY-3 data to study the spread of bark beetle in the province of Lower Austria.An accuracy study of DTMs from ZY-3 stereo data,as well as a land cover analysis and comparison of Austria with ZY-3 and other sensors are still ongoing.
