摘要
虚拟地理环境是地理学语言在智能化、网络化和虚拟现实表现等方面向前发展的更高级形式，包容了地图和GIS所具有的空间信息表达与传输功能．本文从虚拟地理环境概念、发展简史的基础上探讨了该课程作为GIS专业选修课程设置的意义．
Virtual geographic environment is a more advanced form of GIS geographic language, which includes space information expression and transmission functions of Cartography and GIS. The paper discussed virtual geographic environmen as an elective course for GIS discipline based on the concept and the brief history of VGE.
出处
《山东师范大学学报（自然科学版）》
CAS
2010年第4期97-100,共4页
Journal of Shandong Normal University(Natural Science)
关键词
虚拟地理环境
地理学
GIS专业
virtual geographic environment
Geography
GIS discipline
