Geospatial datasets are too complex to easily visualize and understand on a computer screen. Combining digital fabrication with a discrete global grid system (DGGS) can produce physical models of the Earth for visualizing multiresolution geospatial datasets. This proposed approach includes a mechanism for attaching a set of 3D printed segments to produce a scalable model of the Earth. Two models have been produced that support the attachment of different datasets both in 2D and 3D format.
Source: Hessam Djavaherpour, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Faramarz F. Samavati (2017) Physical Visualization of Geospatial Datasets.
Related: Also see our other entries on globe models and rearrangeable physical visualizations.
Added by: Hessam Djavaherpour.
Category:
Enabling technology
Tags:
3d printing, cartographic, digital fabrication, globe, rearrangeable