Principles and Application of Geographic Information Systems and Internet/Intranet Technology
Abstract
The paper presented consists of three main parts. In the first part we roughly outline the state of the art of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mainly with respect to technology and data. Within this part we also give some examples where GIS is applied in military applications. The second part gives an overview of architectures and some technical aspects of GIS-Internet/Intranet solutions compares the different approaches and discusses the potential of this technology in general. Furthermore, some examples demonstrate the practical use of GIS and Internet/Intranet. As the World Wide Web (WWW) gains more and more significance and there is a large demand of GIS applications in the Internet/Intranet we introduce the main principles of this technology. Especially we explain how Geographic Information Systems can be connected to the world wide web and which extensions are necessary to transfer and to view Geographic data. In this part we also show how the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) can be used in this field. Part of this is based on results of some projects conducted for the AMilGeo (Amt fur Militansches Geowesen) of the German Federal Armed Forces as well as on other civilian projects. In the third part of the paper we demonstrate the potential of the GIS and Internet/Intranet technology for civilian and military applications. Besides we discuss the main advantages of GIS and Internet/Intranet such as Ease of Use or the possibility to access up-to-date information in various databases. Furthermore we show how the connection of Internet and telecommunication can be used in GIS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADP010874
Entities
People
- Wolfgang Reinhardt