Spatial information especiallly Digital Earth technology have been put forward for about 50 years. Now it has been applied in different area successful such as city management, landuse monitor, digital city and even globe change. In the field of geology and mining, it also needs the Digital Earth technology to make it clear that how does the different stratums and geology structures being under the ground and where the mine is being. Because of the complexity of geology field, there is few successful report on the application of Digital Earth technology in this area. In this paper, we just put forward a new method which will integrate all kinds of geology and mining data together, using spatial information technology to develop a 3D geology and mining data sharing platform. In this platform, users can find the different stratums location and development, they can also search some element of features, located them and viewed them in 3D model. This platform has changed the traditional geology data's access and using.

Date Published: 3 November 2010
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 7840, Sixth International Symposium on Digital Earth: Models, Algorithms, and Virtual Reality, 784009 (3 November 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.872305

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7840:
Sixth International Symposium on Digital Earth: Models, Algorithms, and Virtual Reality
Huadong Guo; Changlin Wang, Editor(s)