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000003354 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.011
000003354 037__ $$aSCART-2018-0008
000003354 100__ $$aTriantafyllou, Antoine
000003354 245__ $$aGeolokit: An interactive tool for visualising and exploring geoscientific data in Google Earth
000003354 260__ $$c2017
000003354 520__ $$aVirtual globes have been developed to showcase different types of data combining a digital elevation model and basemaps of high resolution satellite imagery. Hence, they became a standard to share spatial data and information, although they suffer from a lack of toolboxes dedicated to the formatting of large geoscientific dataset. From this perspective, we developed Geolokit: a free and lightweight software that allows geoscientists – and every scientist working with spatial data – to import their data (e.g., sample collections, structural geology, cross-sections, field pictures, georeferenced maps), to handle and to transcribe them to Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files. KML files are then automatically opened in the Google Earth virtual globe and the spatial data accessed and shared. Geolokit comes with a large number of dedicated tools that can process and display: (i) multi-points data, (ii) scattered data interpolations, (iii) structural geology features in 2D and 3D, (iv) rose diagrams, stereonets and dip-plunge polar histograms, (v) cross-sections and oriented rasters, (vi) georeferenced field pictures, (vii) georeferenced maps and projected gridding. Therefore, together with Geolokit, Google Earth becomes not only a powerful georeferenced data viewer but also a stand-alone work platform. The toolbox (available online at http://www.geolokit.org) is written in Python, a high-level, cross-platform programming language and is accessible through a graphical user interface, designed to run in parallel with Google Earth, through a workflow that requires no additional third party software. Geolokit features are demonstrated in this paper using typical datasets gathered from two case studies illustrating its applicability at multiple scales of investigation: a petro-structural investigation of the Ile d’Yeu orthogneissic unit (Western France) and data collection of the Mariana oceanic subduction zone (Western Pacific).
000003354 594__ $$aNO
000003354 6531_ $$aData visualization
000003354 6531_ $$aVirtual globes
000003354 6531_ $$aGIS
000003354 6531_ $$aKML
000003354 6531_ $$aStructural geology
000003354 6531_ $$aFieldwork
000003354 6531_ $$aSoftware
000003354 700__ $$aWatlet, Arnaud
000003354 700__ $$aBastin, Christophe
000003354 773__ $$c39-46$$pInternational Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation$$v62$$y2017
000003354 8560_ $$farnaud.watlet@observatoire.be
000003354 85642 $$ahttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243417301149#!
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