BACKGROUND Visual analytics aims to connect the processing power of information technologies and the user's ability of logical thinking and reasoning through the complex visual interaction. Moreover, the most of the data contain the spatial component. Therefore, the need for geovisual tools and methods arises. Either one can develop own system but the dissemination of findings and its usability...

A characteristic task in remote sensing Earth observation involves the registration of changes which may signal environmentally significant events. The Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and the Sentinel-2 optical/visible-infrared space-borne platforms, with spatial resolutions of the order of 10-20 meters and revisit times of the order of days, provide an attractive source of data for c...

This paper presents the result of the implementation of a series of algorithms intended to be used for representing in most of the 3D geographic software, even Google Earth, the subsurface formations properties combining 2D charts or 3D plots over a 3D background, allowing everyone to use them, no matter the economic size of the company for which they work. Besides the existence of complex and ...

There has been a growing interest in the potential of Google Earth for scientific inquiries, and our previous paper (Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly, 2014. Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 450–454) on weirs and their catch in the Persian Gulf is a case in point. Garibaldi et al. (2014. Comment on: “Managing fish...

Spatial OLAP (SOLAP) systems do not completely integrate visualization, interaction and analysis functionalities of Geographic Information Systems. In this paper, we propose a flexible Web SOLAP tool, GoOlap, which combines OLAP and Geovisualization functionalities through the integration of the geobrowser Google Earth and the OLAP tool Mondrian/JPivot. Google Earth enriches spatio-multidimensi...

Visualization using Google Earth is an effective way of presenting geographically linked data. The GEW project shows how university administrators, particularly the admissions, alumni and development offices can deploy data they already have to enhance resource allocation in their recruiting and fundraising efforts. GEW provides an administrative interface for inputting spreadsheet data and a v...

The Google Maps/Earth GIS has been integrated with a microscale meteorological model to improve the system's functionality and ease of use. Almost all the components of the model system, including the terrain data processing, morphological data generation, meteorological data gathering and initialization, and displaying/visualizing the model results, have been improved by using this approach. D...