VRFire: An immersive visualization experience for wildfire spread analysis

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 243-246

  Sherman, William R ^a   Penick, Michael A ^a,b   Su, Simon ^a   Brown, Timothy J ^a   Harris Jr , Frederick C ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Reno   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied virtual reality; Physically based simulations; Scene graph; Wild fire visualization

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VIRTUAL REALITY; PHYSICALLY BASED SIMULATIONS; SCENE-GRAPHS; WILD-FIRE VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GRAPH THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34547678126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2007.352491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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