X3D Earth requirements workshop November 2006. Geoscience Australia whitepaper

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Beard, D.J.

Abstract

X3D Earth is a planned virtual globe application from the Web3D Consortium. It will differ from Google Earth (GE) (and other existing virtual globes) in the following ways: it will use an existing open source standard 3D file format (X3D); be truly 3D (most other virtual globes do not currently handle sub-surface data); allow distributed storage of the 3D data; and allow agencies such as GA to create and distribute their own data. One motivation for developing X3D Earth is to provide a mechanism for long term and open access to public 3D geospatial data. Development is planned for 2006/07. This whitepaper is Geoscience Australia's contribution to the X3D Earth requirements workshop, November 2006.

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External PublicationConference Paper

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data standards

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information management

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web mapping

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Earth Sciences

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2006-01-01T00:00:00

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