Terrain and other GIS data stored on HTTP server and fetched over the network via HTTP protocol
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Handles multiple types of GIS data
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satellite imagery, topographic maps, various geological characteristics (i.e., vegetation, geological resources, and water concentration) and arbitrary 3D objects are visualized (complete database for NYS).
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Wavelet compression for both DEM and satellite images, reduces size of data by a factor of 32 for DEMs and 30-60 for textures.
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Adaptive mesh simplification technique results in rendering time reduction by a factor of 40.
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Internal caching system with pre-processing
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Level-of-detail rendering
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