Navigating large terrains using commodity mobile devices

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1218-1233

  Noguera, José M ^a   Segura, Rafael J ^a   Ogáyar, Carlos J ^a   Joan Arinyo, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive streaming; Image based rendering; Mobile computing; Terrain navigation; Terrain rendering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STREAMING; CLIENT SERVER; IMAGE-BASED RENDERING; INTERACTIVE RENDERING; LOW-BANDWIDTH; TERRAIN NAVIGATION; TERRAIN RENDERING; VIEW-DEPENDENT;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LANDFORMS; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; USER INTERFACES;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM; TERRAIN;

EID: 80051575678     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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