Paper Info
Title
3D geological modeling and visualization of rock masses based on Google Earth: A case study
Abstract
Google Earth (GE) has become a powerful tool for geological modeling and visualization. An interesting and useful feature of GE, Google Street View, can allow the GE users to view geological structure such as layers of rock masses at a field site. In this paper, we introduce a practical solution for building 3D geological models for rock masses based on the data acquired by use with GE. A real study case at Haut-Barr, France is presented to demonstrate our solution. We first locate the position of Haut-Barr in GE, and then determine the shape and scale of the rock masses in the study area, and thirdly acquire the layout of layers of rock masses in the Google Street View, and finally create the approximate 3D geological models by extruding and intersecting. The generated 3D geological models can simply reflect the basic structure of the rock masses at Haut-Barr, and can be used for visualizing the rock bodies interactively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CSIT.2013.6588781
Computer Science and Information Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
rock mass scale,geophysics computing,geological structure,google earth,rock mass visualization,geological modeling,haut-barr,3d geological modeling,visulization,data visualisation,rocks,rock mass shape,solid modelling,france,geological visualization,search engines,google street view,ge,rock mass layer,data visualization,computational modeling,solid modeling
Computer vision,Data visualization,Computer graphics (images),Visualization,Computer science,Solid modelling,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1301.3455
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Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT), 2013 5th International Conference on, 2013, pp. 210-213
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gang Mei1236.98
John C. Tipper263.90
Nengxiong Xu3226.00