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VRES Project page (1585 words) |
 | The objective of VRES is to collect Earth Observation data and display them in "4D" on the Earth surface and in the atmosphere, mixing and matching them at wish, in order to underline their relationships and show different scenarios. |
| Due to the large variety of Earth Observation data, the large amount of visualisation possibilities and, last but not least, technological limitations of hardware and software, the overall VRES structure is complex because data have to be prepared before they can be shown in 4D both in local and in remote. |
| Ingestion and pre-processing: in which the data coming from different supports and formats have to be collected into VRES and possibly uniformed at least in the same reference system of coordinates and measurement units for homogeneous data in order to let them to be later mixed and shown together. |
| Main Articles: 'Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity', Ariadne Issue 44 (5731 words) |
| The VRE as infrastructure or framework is a view shared by the JISC in its 'Roadmap for a UK VRE' [1] and by those who have reported on the needs and implications of cyberinfrastructure development in theUS [2]. |
| VREs have the potential to be profoundly multidisciplinary, both in their use and in their development. |
| Since access to a VRE is not necessarily confined to desktop browser technologies, and given the improved wireless technologies (whether Bluetooth, 3G or 801.11x) data collection and analysis in the field has the potential to be both efficient and collaborative whether through time or space. |
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