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Foil 24 From Video Games to Yellow Pages

From Implications of NII for Kids Jamesville-Dewitt School Districy Science Week -- April 25,1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Video Games include travel through race courses (Crash and Burn)
or through ÒMystical WorldsÓ as in Donkey Kong or for the new generation of PC games such as MYST
Other PC edutainment systems such as Oregon Trail and Carmen San Diego provide Òadventure/knowledgeÓ filled journeys through sort of the real world
NASA, USGS and other sources (such as Russia) provide digital terrain data which can be used to provide totally realistic Òflight simulationsÓ
Current widely available 3D data has 10 to 30 meter resolution but even now, Synthetic aperture radar sensors are being tested which can be flown in a plane and give horizontal and vertical resolution of around 1 meter.
The software to implement this is called a Geographical Information System (GIS)



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