Title :
An innovative tool to present remote sensing data to the public
Author :
Shokr, Mohammed ; Le, Hao
Author_Institution :
Atmos. Environ. Service, Toronto, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
In response to the growing demand for a visual capability to display and assimilate very large volumes of remote sensing data, a very fast browsing and animation system has been developed. The system can browse very large images (order of a few gigabyte) and animate through thousands of images in a very fast mode to support educational and decision-making purposes. It can be used by students in elementary and high schools, the general public in museums, and policy makers on their lap top computers. The system can be tailored to different applications. This presentation focusses on an educational application that displays many "layers" of data acquired at different scales; from regional to local. The data constitute sets of remote sensing images, GIS maps, photographs, text, etc
Keywords :
education; remote sensing; GIS maps; animation system; applications; browsing system; decision-making; education; lap top computers; multi-layer data display; museums; photographs; policy makers; remote sensing data; remote sensing images; schools; text; visual archive system; visual display; Animation; Application software; Computer displays; Decision making; Educational institutions; Geographic Information Systems; Image analysis; Read-write memory; Remote sensing; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976881
