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Navin, J. | Pack, T.
Abstract
Geoscience Australia (GA) has developed an interactive 3D virtual globe viewer to present global, national and regional scale geoscience data to government, geoscience industries, the scientific community and the general public. The interactive virtual globe is built on NASA's open source World Wind Java Software Development Kit (SDK) and provides users with easy and rich access to a growing number of geoscience datasets, including subsurface data, from within GA and around the world. The tool has been used by GA as a platform for the public launch of a number of national datasets, including the Radiometric Map of Australia, the Magnetic Anomaly Map of Australia and the Gravity Anomaly Map of Australia. More recently it has been used to display sub-surface datasets such as seismic and airborne electromagnetic data (AEM) alongside other relevant geoscience data to facilitate effective communication of scientific findings. In this paper the authors address the considerations used for selecting the World Wind SDK over other solutions, the current state of the 3D viewer tool, including display of subsurface data, and the benefits that GA has seen from its adoption.
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