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Geographical Knowledge Management System Application in Virtual Earth Environment

Dhanotiya, Manoj
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1227239622

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2008, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Geography.
Geography as a discipline had been revolutionized with the advent of modern technologies and especially in the field of GIS. We aim to use high end modern technologies and programming language to create an interoperable Geographical Information Management Model in a Virtual Earth Environment where we can record history in an innovative and exploratory way. The first year graduate students at the Department of Geography at the University of Cincinnati have been taking a walking tour to Downtown Cincinnati from the campus since the 1980s. These tours have witnessed the continuing change of the city along the route, and these changes have only been documented in the essays written by students. This research aims to develop an online application in virtual environment that can show the current, historical, and future observations along the route. With the rapid development of online tools such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth, it is now possible to create a geo-referenced archive of urban changes in a virtual geographic environment. In this study, Microsoft Virtual Earth SDK (Software Development Kit) and KML (Key Hole Markup Language) are used to develop a GIS application which will facilitate the development of content overlays featuring a detailed virtual tour of Cincinnati Down-Town Area plus any other area in whole world subject to the availability of satellite imagery. Satellite Imagery from Navteq is used to show the historical monuments and places of geographic importance. Geo-tagged videos of professors and student discussions on the “place-marked” locations are added in the content overlay for real time experience. A virtual geographic environment like this has the potential of being an effective teaching tool and perhaps attracting more high school students to the discipline of geography.
Lin Liu, PhD (Committee Chair)
Raj Bhatnagar, PhD (Committee Member)
Robert Frohn, PhD (Committee Member)
91 p.
Virtual Earth; Virtual; Virtual Earth Environment; Earth Environment; Earth; GIS; tour

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  • Dhanotiya, M. (2008). Geographical Knowledge Management System Application in Virtual Earth Environment [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1227239622

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dhanotiya, Manoj. Geographical Knowledge Management System Application in Virtual Earth Environment. 2008. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1227239622.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dhanotiya, Manoj. "Geographical Knowledge Management System Application in Virtual Earth Environment." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1227239622

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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