Rich point clouds in virtual globes - A new paradigm in city modeling?

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 508-517

  Nebiker, Stephan ^a   Bleisch, Susanne ^a   Christen, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

City model; LIDAR; Mobile mapping; Point cloud; Virtual globe; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CITY MODEL; LIDAR; MOBILE MAPPING; POINT CLOUD; VIRTUAL GLOBE;

CLOUDS; OPTICAL RADAR; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; GEOMETRY; GIS; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN AREA; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78149411294     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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