Terrain Rendering / GIS Project
Project Description
Web-based Geographical Information System, using
2D and 3D rendering of terrain for interactive flight simulation
interfaced to spatially referenced information.
Staffing
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Paul Coddington (no funding from any specific project,
so no official time allotment, in practice about 20%).
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Alvin Leung, GRA (funded 100%, originally by Living Schoolbook, now
discretionary? or Rome Lab?).
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Chris Walczak, Polish intern.
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Byoengsoeb Ki, GRA doing independent study (unfunded).
Recent Accomplishments
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Walczak's Illustra and VRML servers made more robust and now are
usable by others in the terrain rendering group.
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ALvin and Ki have studied Chris's code and the database interface.
Deliverables and Deadlines
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Provide good 2D (Java) and 3D (VRML) terrain rendering for Interactive
Journey (Living Schoolbook) and Rome Lab demos by end of March.
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Alvin needs to graduate soon (end of summer if possible).
Problems and Constraints
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Someone needs to take over project management from Paul fairly soon.
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Main problem is lack of expertise in GIS and geographical data.
Obtaining data and integrating different data sets in different formats
is highly non-trivial.
Paul Coddington, paulc@npac.syr.edu, March 5 1996