Virtual Globes (VGs) are quickly becoming the new paradigm in the Earth Sciences for education and outreach, logistics, and data access. Virtual Globes such as Google Earth, NASA WorldWind, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer, and many others are changing how science professionals and the public view and access geographic information, including observations and forecasts for applications in meteorology and climate, oceanography, and hydrology. This session is interested in exploring Virtual Globe technologies and strategies for Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) applications in the acquisition, processing, management, analysis, dissemination, and visualization of weather-related geographic information. Such applications include not only the rehosting of existing hydro-meteorological capabilities from research and operations, but also new and emerging innovations which become possible through VG technologies.
The IIPS Virtual Globe session is seeking14 oral presentations for Thursday afternoon during the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), to be held 20-24 January 2008 in New Orleans, LA. A parallel poster session on Wednesday-Thursday is also available for those authors seeking longer exposure times or more direct interaction with conference attendees. Digital projection equipment will be available with internet access during the oral presentations. Poster sessions will have access to the internet through a commercial WIFI service.
Similar to the Education and Informatics Sessions at the 2006 Fall Meeting of the Americal Geophysical Union, we are interested in understanding the state of the art by addressing questions such as: How are these tools currently being used in the Earth Sciences and IIPS? How do they work? How have they changed Earth Sciences and IIPS? What needs of the Earth Sciences and IIPS are currently not being met by the existing tools? What should we expect for the future? 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.
For more information on the IIPS Virtual Globe session, please contact the session chairmen:
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA, PMEL, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast,
Seattle, WA 98115, nancy.n.soreide@noaa.gov
Scott T. Shipley, Professor, Dept. Geography, MS 1E2, George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444, sshipley@gmu.edu
Also see Virtual Globes in Science at http://conferences.images.alaska.edu/.