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Geographic Virtual Urban Environments (GeoVUE)
The GeoVUE research node is based at University College London. The research node is funded for 3 years from October 2005.
The GeoVUE research node will provide grid-enabled virtual urban environments (VUEs) within which users are able to link spatial data to geographic information systems (GIS)-related software relevant to a variety of scientific and design problems. It will provide decision support for a range of users from academics and professionals involved in furthering our geographic understanding of cities, to planners and urban designers who require detailed socio-economic data in plan preparation. It will provide geographic information for a more general public involved in viewing problems and policies associated with the impact of change in cities.
GeoVUE will develop three demonstrator VUEs of increasing complexity and sophistication which will form part of a structured process of sequential development to the ultimate aim of producing a generic framework.
MapTube – will illustrate how users can link conventional map and socio-economic attribute data to open source spatial analysis software linked to GIS where the focus is on better scientific understanding of spatial patterns in cities such as deprivation, income distribution, and demographic ageing.
Pollution Monitoring – builds on existing virtual cities work, extending a current project where air pollution monitoring and visualization (at Kings' College) are linked to impacts on resident population through the medium of 3D-GIS using real time sensing of air pollution.
Constructing VUEs – builds on 3D-GIS applications in central London and enables small segments of the city to be modelled and then populated by users from the various geographic data bases that are available, with a view to assessing the impact of urban planning proposals.