2013
Beltrán-Fonollosa, Arturo; Abargues, Carlos; Granell-Canut, Carlos; Núñez-Redó, Manuela; DÃaz-Sánchez, Laura; Huerta-Guijarro, JoaquÃn
A virtual globe tool for searching and visualizing geo-referenced media resources in social networks Journal Article
In: International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 171–195, 2013, ISSN: 1380-7501, (IF: 1.058, Q2).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: data visualization, ESPANA-VIRTUAL, Geo-social media, georeferenced resources, virtual globes
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The current collaborative context and resource sharing that drives Web 2.0 is gaining importance within academia and industry, which is stimulating the development of new techniques for content retrieval, sharing and analysis over user-generated media content. This poses new challenges and research opportunities in spatial-based discovery media resources over varied sources, since location context is being increasingly supported in most of these social networks and services. In this paper, we present a virtual globe tool for searching and visualizing geo-referenced media resources. Our approach is based on the integration of search technologies, description languages for annotating collections of geo-referenced media resources and visualization techniques. The combination of these techniques is materialized in a virtual globe-based tool to facilitate searching and presentation of geo-referenced media resources available in different social networks.
2012
RodrÃguez-Pupo, Luis Enrique; Tamayo-Fong, Alain; Beltrán-Fonollosa, Arturo; Huerta-Guijarro, JoaquÃn
Visualization of Sensor Data in Virtual Globes Proceedings Article
In: Gensel, Jêrome; Josselin, Didier; Vandenbroucke, Danny (Ed.): Bridging the Geographic Information Sciences International AGILE2012 Conference Avignon France april 24- 27, 2012, pp. 41-45, AGILE Digital Editions, 2012, ISBN: 9789081696005.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: data visualization, sensor observation services, sensor web, virtual globes
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title = {Visualization of Sensor Data in Virtual Globes},
author = { Luis Enrique RodrÃguez-Pupo and Alain Tamayo-Fong and Arturo Beltrán-Fonollosa and JoaquÃn Huerta-Guijarro},
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abstract = {Virtual Globes have become a common platform for visualizing geographical data. The capability for customization, extensibility and the support of interaction with the visualized elements are some of the aspects to consider when selecting a Virtual Globe for visualization. For visualizing sensor data, aspects such as cardinality, the nature of the data and its temporal and spatial dimensions have to be considered. In this paper we present a prototype application to visualize sensor data retrieved from SOS servers over the NASA World Wind virtual Globe. For implementing the prototype application we relied on a categorization of the sensor data that provides possible visualization methods. The prototype has integrated the SEXTANTE library to enable data analysis over sensor data and include the results as part of the visualizations.},
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Virtual Globes have become a common platform for visualizing geographical data. The capability for customization, extensibility and the support of interaction with the visualized elements are some of the aspects to consider when selecting a Virtual Globe for visualization. For visualizing sensor data, aspects such as cardinality, the nature of the data and its temporal and spatial dimensions have to be considered. In this paper we present a prototype application to visualize sensor data retrieved from SOS servers over the NASA World Wind virtual Globe. For implementing the prototype application we relied on a categorization of the sensor data that provides possible visualization methods. The prototype has integrated the SEXTANTE library to enable data analysis over sensor data and include the results as part of the visualizations.