Abstract
Geologists need to restore the past locations of interested features. Reconstruction of geological features to their past locations involves moving a feature around the Earth surface. Current GIS software packages do not have the function to restore the past locations of geological features, but do have the potential to realize it. Paleogeographic Information System (PGIS) is an ap-proach to incorporate the Paleocontinent Reconstruction function into GIS. This approach has been realized in ArcGIS by developing a Paleogeographic Reconstruction functionality using ArcObjects and Visual Basic for Applica-tion (VBA) embedded in ArcMap.
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Mei, S. (2003). PGIS, a Software for Paleogeographic Reconstruction in ArcGIS. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2669. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44842-X_2
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