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Developments in 3D Geo-Information Sciences

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Tijs Neutens

    1. Dept. Geography, University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium

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  2. Philippe Maeyer

    1. Dept. Geography, University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium

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  • Covers the most recent research in the field of 3D Geoinformation with respect to data collection and modelling, data management, data analysis and visualisation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
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  2. Euler Operators and Navigation of Multi-shell Building Models

    • Pawel Boguslawski, Christopher Gold
    Pages 1-16

  3. True-3D Visualization of Glacier Retreat in the Dachstein Massif, Austria: Cross-Media Hard- and Softcopy Displays

    • Katharina Bruhm, Manfred Buchroithner, Bernd Hetze
    Pages 17-32

  4. Towards Advanced and Interactive Web Perspective View Services

    • Benjamin Hagedorn, Dieter Hildebrandt, Jürgen Döllner
    Pages 33-51

  5. Interactive modelling of buildings in Google Earth: A 3D tool for Urban Planning

    • Umit Isikdag, Sisi Zlatanova
    Pages 52-70

  6. An Experimentation of Expert Systems Applied to 3D Geological Models Construction

    • Eric Janssens–Coron, Jacynthe Pouliot, Bernard Moulin, Alfonso Rivera
    Pages 71-91

  7. Data validation in 3D cadastre

    • Sudarshan Karki, Rod Thompson, Kevin McDougall
    Pages 92-122

  8. From Three-Dimensional Topological Relations to Contact Relations

    • Yohei Kurata
    Pages 123-142

  9. Needs and potential of 3D city information and sensor fusion technologies for vehicle positioning in urban environments

    • M.-O. Löwner, A. Sasse, P. Hecker
    Pages 143-156

  10. Modeling Visibility through Visual Landmarks in 3D Navigation using Geo-DBMS

    • Ivin Amri Musliman, Behnam Alizadehashrafi, Tet-Khuan Chen, Alias Abdul-Rahman
    Pages 157-180

  11. A 3D inclusion test on large dataset

    • Kristien Ooms, Philippe De Maeyer, Tijs Neutens
    Pages 181-199

  12. 3D Volumetric Soft Geo-objects for Dynamic Urban Runoff Modeling

    • Izham Mohamad Yusoff, Muhamad Uznir Ujang, Alias Abdul Rahman
    Pages 200-219
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Realistically representing our three-dimensional world has been the subject of many (philosophical) discussions since ancient times. While the recognition of the globular shape of the Earth goes back to Pythagoras’ statements of the sixth century B. C. , the two-dimensional, circular depiction of the Earth’s surface has remained prevailing and also dominated the art of painting until the late Middle Ages. Given the immature technological means, objects on the Earth’s surface were often represented in academic and technical disciplines by two-dimensional cross-sections oriented along combinations of three mutually perpendicular directions. As soon as computer science evolved, scientists have steadily been improving the three-dimensional representation of the Earth and developed techniques to analyze the many natural processes and phenomena taking part on its surface. Both computer aided design (CAD) and geographical information systems (GIS) have been developed in parallel during the last three decades. While the former concentrates more on the detailed design of geometric models of object shapes, the latter emphasizes the topological relationships between geographical objects and analysis of spatial patterns. Nonetheless, this distinction has become increasingly blurred and both approaches have been integrated into commercial software packages. In recent years, an active line of inquiry has emerged along the junctures of CAD and GIS, viz. 3D geoinformation science. Studies along this line have recently made significant inroads in terms of 3D modeling and data acquisition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Geography, University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium

    Tijs Neutens, Philippe Maeyer

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