Development of a Conversion Program Module for Display of Census Mesh Data using Google Earth and Examples of Geographical Education

• Sato Kiyotada

  Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Ichinoseki National College of Technology

• Konno Susumu

  Fujitsu Advanced Solutions Limited

• Oikawa Shinichi

  Management & Information System Engineering,Nagaoka University of Technology

• Fujiwara Yasunori

  Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Ichinoseki National College of Technology

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Google Earth によるメッシュ国勢調査データ表示のための変換モジュールの開発と地理教育への利用例

Abstract

We have developed a census mesh data display program module for urban geography study materials ofcollege students. The program module, "Census Converter" converts from census data in Japan (Census Mash Data)to KML (Keyhole Markup Language) tag form data with simple imagery operation. The Google Earth is a softwareprogram that can display remote sensing imagery and various geographical data draped over a virtual globe usingthe KML tag form. College students can observe various geographical distribution graphs derived from the censusdata using the Google Earth. For example, the graph of the commuter's distribution by the car can be observedincluding the place name and satellite image. Moreover, we tried the display of the operation result of two censusdata like an index image of life style impact of environment. This paper shows the Census Converter module,examples of the geographical education using the census data.

Journal

• Japanese colleges of technology education journal

  Japanese colleges of technology education journal 33 37-42, 2010-03

  Institute of National Colleges of Technology,Japan

Keywords

• Google Earth
• Satellite Image
• KML tag form
• Census mesh data
• Urban geography

Details

• CRID: 1571980077781388160
• NII Article ID: 110009807971
• NII Book ID: AN10534789
• ISSN: 03865681
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
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