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Geolokit: An interactive tool for visualising and exploring geoscientific data in Google Earth / Antoine Triantafyllou in International journal of applied Earth observation and geoinformation, vol 62 (October 2017)  

Public [article]  inInternational journal of applied Earth observation and geoinformation > vol 62 (October 2017) . - pp 39 - 46 Titre : Geolokit: An interactive tool for visualising and exploring geoscientific data in Google Earth Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Antoine Triantafyllou, Auteur ; Arnaud Watlet, Auteur ; Christophe Bastin, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 39 - 46 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] données localisées [Termes IGN] données localisées 2D [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] globe virtuel [Termes IGN] Google Earth [Termes IGN] Python (langage de programmation) [Termes IGN] système d'information géographique [Termes IGN] tectonique [Termes IGN] visualisation de données [Vedettes matières IGN] Géovisualisation Résumé : (auteur) Virtual 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). Numéro de notice : A2017-229 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.011 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.011 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=85135 [article]