Abstract:
Thuban is an interactive geographic data viewer. It has been developed because there was no simple interactive viewer for geographic information available as Free Software. Thuban is written in Python and C++ and uses the wxWindows library allowing it to run on many different platforms, including GNU/Linux and Windows.
Geographic data viewers are a necessary tool as they allow one to get a visual impression of the positional relationship of the information that may not be apparent from simple inspection of the data values themselves. Thuban allows the user to create a session that displays geographic data and then explore that data through navigation and manipulation of how it is drawn. The results can then be saved or printed.
Thuban arranges a session in a hierarchy. A session contains a map which consists of layers. Each layer represents one kind of data set. For instance, there may be a layer for roads and another layer for buildings. These layers can either be vector shapes or images.
TYLER
B.
STEVENS
Role:
SERF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
Publications/References
James P. Koermer, "Easy Web Page Access to a Variety of Archived Meteorological Data", 19th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, February 2003.
Creation and Review Dates
SERF Creation Date:
2005-04-05
SERF Last Revision Date:
2010-03-24
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