SMART: An efficient technique for massive terrain visualization from out-of-core

Vision, Modeling and Visualization 2004, VMV 2004 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 413-420

  Bao, Xiaohong ^a   Pajarola, Renato ^a   Shafae, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; LANDFORMS; VISIBILITY;

LEVEL OF DETAIL; LEVEL-OF-DETAIL RENDERING; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; TERRAIN ELEVATION; TERRAIN MODEL; TERRAIN VISUALIZATION; VIEW-DEPENDENT; VISIBILITY COMPUTATION;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 34547365971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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