Basic HTML version of Foils prepared November 29 98

Foil 3 System Overview

From 3D Geographical Information Systems in Tango CEWES Tango Training -- November 17-18 98. by Remek Trzaska, Pawel Roman, Chris Walczak, Marek Podgorny
1 Goal: visualization of terrain with multiple kinds of data, including satellite images, maps and weather info
  • Open Inventor used as a graphic library and a windowing toolkit
  • "Earth surface" is build with triangles
  • Imaginary data (maps, satellite images, etc.) is projected on the surface
  • DEM & imaginary data is compressed using wavelets
  • Adaptive mesh simplification
  • Delaunay triangulation
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