Visualizing massive terrain with transportation infrastructure by using continuous level of detail

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1899, 2004, Pages 175-180

  Huang, Bo ^a,b   Li, Hongga ^c   Huang, Xiaoxia ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRIDGES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; URBAN PLANNING; VISUALIZATION;

DATA FUSION; LEVEL OF DETAILS (LOD); TERRAIN MESHES; TRIANGULATED IRREGULAR NETWORK (TIN);

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 15744405074     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1899-22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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