Digital Earth Moving

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Keynotes

   1. Zürich Airport Extension Project: Digital Support for Earthwork Construction

      • Albert Brunner

      Pages 1-1

   2. Designed Landforms

      • Stephen M. Ervin

      Pages 2-2

   3. Terraffectors and the Art of Consensus Building

      • Gary Huber

      Pages 3-3

3. Technical Submissions

   1. GPS —Based Earthmoving for Construction

      • Craig L. Koehrsen, William C. Sahm, Claude W. Keefer

      Pages 4-17

   2. Feature Lines Reconstruction for Reverse Engineering

      • Alessandro Raviola, Michela Spagnuolo, Giuseppe Patané

      Pages 18-30

   3. Geomorphometrical Mapping of Relief-Dissection Using GIS

      • Gábor Mezősi, Richárd Kiss

      Pages 31-38

   4. AutoCAD Land Development Desktop Release 2i

      • Michael Schoenstein

      Pages 39-42

   5. Procedural Geometry for Real-time Terrain Visualisation in Blueberry3D

      • Mattias Widmark

      Pages 43-47

   6. A Quasi-Four Dimensional Database for the Built Environment

      • Henning Sten Hansen

      Pages 48-59

   7. Interactive Generation of Digital Terrain Models Using Multiple Data Sources

      • Angelika Weber, Joachim Benner

      Pages 60-64

   8. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

      • Thomas A. Hennig, Jeffrey L. Kretsch, Charles J. Pessagno, Paul H. Salamonowicz, William L. Stein

      Pages 65-77

4. Corner, End, and Overlap “Extrusion Junctures”: Parameters for Geometric Control

   1. Corner, End, and Overlap “Extrusion Junctures”: Parameters for Geometric Control

      • Caroline Y. Westort

      Pages 78-86

5. Contour Lines and DEM: Generation and Extraction

   1. Contour Lines and DEM: Generation and Extraction

      • L. Rognant, J. G. Planès, M. Memier, J. M. Chassery

      Pages 87-97

6. Modeling of Ecosystems as a Data Source for Real-Time Terrain Rendering

   1. Modeling of Ecosystems as a Data Source for Real-Time Terrain Rendering

      • Johan Hammes

      Pages 98-111

7. Seamless Integration of New Control Technologies

   1. Seamless Integration of New Control Technologies

      • Ewout Korpershoek

      Pages 112-116

8. Back Matter

   Pages 117-117

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Digital manipulation of landform is revolutionizing how our built environment is designed and constructed. On a technical level, three dimensional geometric modeling of topography has its origins at the interface of geographic information systems (GIS) and computer aided geometric modeling (CAD): the former with its representations of spatial attribute information with digital terrain in several representations (Triangulated Irregular Networks, contour lines, etc. ); the latter focusing primarily on the parameterization and combination of geometric primitives. The broadening of these two disciplines to embrace new surveying and navigation advances, e. g. global positioning systems (GPS), together with developments in engineering on the application side, are leading to powerful new suites of functionality. There has been a pronounced need for a forum where these traditionally separate parties can interact. These proceedings contain the technical papers selected and formally presented as part of the scientific program of the First International Symposium on Digital Earth Moving, 2001 (DEM 2001) held September 5 7, 2001 at the CIM Institute for Computing Science and Industrial Technologies of the University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI iCIMSI) in Manno (Lugano), Switzerland. It is the first volume published on this explicit theme. Thirty six submissions were received, from fifteen countries, with thirteen select papers and posters presented in the official program and in this publication.

• Computational Geometry
• Computer Aided Design
• GIS
• GPS
• Geographic Information Systems
• Geographic Visualization
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Geometric Modeling
• Global Positioning Systems
• Mann
• Spatial Information Processing
• database
• ecosystem
• rendering
• visualization

• The CIM Institute for Applied Computer Science and Industrial Technoloy (iCIMSI), University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland

  Caroline Y. Westort

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