Direct mesh: A multiresolution approach to terrain visualization

Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue , 2004, Pages 766-776

  Xu, Kai ^a   Zhou, Xiaofang ^a   Lin, Xuemin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RETRIEVAL; LOWER-RESOLUTION APPROXIMATION; MULTIRESOLUTION TRIANGULAR MESH (MTM); TERRAIN VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 2442489798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2004.1320044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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