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First Annual Virtual Globes Note: The Conference is now over, but you can find a summary of what went by clicking here. The intended goal of this conference is to assess the state-of-the-art in the use of online Virtual Globes in support of earth sciences. ‘Earth sciences’ here should be interpreted broadly as including any aspect of the earth system, whether the focus is on land, oceans, or atmosphere or on physical, chemical or biological processes. Virtual Globes (VGs) in this context includes any online tool which allows the user free-access to see a spinning globe at space level and interactively fly down to surface level with 3D perspective (such tools currently include Google Earth, World Wind, EarthSLOT, GeoFusion, and others). VGs are quickly becoming the new paradigm in earth science, earth science education and outreach, earth science logistics, and earth science data access. This conference is interested addressing questions such as: How are these tools currently being used in earth sciences? How do they work? How have they changed earth sciences? What needs of earth sciences are currently not being met by the existing tools? What should we expect for the future and what role should we play in it? So here we are interested in not just seeing final products, but also the tips, tricks, and traps that go into building such applications, as well as higher-level perspectives on how these tools may shape the future. Thus we hope to bring together earth scientists, educators, and related individuals who are currently using or planning to use VGs to support their work, with the intent of facilitating the formation of a community that can serve as a nucleus for support, discussion, promotion, and enhancement of use of VGs in the earth sciences. Part of this community-building effort will be a compilation of applications, websites, tutorials, etc., that can serve as a resource for future developments or earth-science events, such as the upcoming International Polar Year. The conference will consist of invited one-hour talks providing an overview of many of the available tools, a series of 20 minute presentations by users, and a day of tutorials on how to actually implement these tools for a particular application. The presentations cover many aspects of how VGs are being used to support earth scientists, educators, logisticians, data archivists, program managers, and the public. Click here to see the final agenda for the conference, inlcuding logistical details like location and parking. The workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado, on 10-12 July 2006. Attendees are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and meal expenses and there is no registration fee. Registration is now closed, as we have already exceed our limit of 75 participants..
This conference is supported by the following organizations: University of Alaska Fairbanks' Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (www.arsc.edu) University of Colorado Boulder's Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES, http://cires.colorado.edu/)
and National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC,
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Copyright notices: TerraExplorer, TerraExplorer Pro, TerraGate, TerraPhoto, and TerraBuilder are registered trademarks of Skyline Software Inc. GoogleEarth, GoogleEarth Plus, and GoogleEarth Pro are registered trademarks of Google. Note: This material is based
upon work supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed
in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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