DocumentCode :
501813
Title :
A Virtual Community Building Platform Based on Google Earth
Author :
Huaiyu, Xu ; Qing, Ni ; Ruidan, Su ; Xiaoyu, Hou ; Chao, Xiao
Author_Institution :
Integrated Circuit Appl. Software Lab., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China
Volume :
2
fYear :
2009
fDate :
12-14 Aug. 2009
Firstpage :
349
Lastpage :
352
Abstract :
Virtual community performs more and more important role for online users. Many tools for virtual community design, implementation and management have been developed, such as virtual reality (VR). On the other hand, few popular technologies have received frequent usage because of cost and time consuming. In this study, a platform for building virtual community more easily and quickly is proposed, which is called E-Life platform (ELP) in our paper. ELP is based on Google Earth (GE) which provides high resolution global geographic information. The architecture of ELP system based on SketchUp is discussed in this paper. The detailed implementation of ELP is presented. Moreover, how to build a virtual community by using ELP is also described in this paper. Experimental results have shown the efficiency and low cost of ELP system.
Keywords :
geographic information systems; social networking (online); virtual reality; E-Life platform; Google Earth platform; SketchUp platform; high resolution global geographic information; virtual community building platform; virtual reality; Blogs; Buildings; Chaos; Costs; Earth; Geographic Information Systems; Hybrid intelligent systems; Satellites; Software performance; Virtual reality; E-Life Platform; Google Earth; SketchUp; Virtual community;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2009. HIS '09. Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenyang
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3745-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HIS.2009.183
Filename :
5254481
Link To Document :
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