Title
GeoScope: Full 3D geospatial information system case study
Abstract
Aiming at the integrative management and comprehensive applications of large-scale 3D geospatial information covering the full 3D space of a city, this paper briefly introduces the design and implementation of a full 3D GIS platform: GeoScope, which provides a professional solution for the massive full three-dimensional geospatial data integration, management, analysis, visualization, and applications. GeoScope is characterized by: (1) extendible software architecture based on the hierarchical message bus, facilitates multimodal integrative applications of 2D GIS and 3D GIS; (2) unified 3D city models, support multiscale semantic representation of outdoor & indoor and aboveground & underground 3D objects; (3) high-efficient 3D geospatial database engine, supports integrated management of massive 3D geospatial data for real-time applications; and (4) high-performance visualization engine exploiting the massively parallel computation architecture of modern GPUs, supports real-time realistic rendering of large-scale complicated 3D geospatial environments. The successful pilot application of GeoScope is also illustrated with the 3D city models of 8494 km2 of the whole Wuhan City, the largest city in middle China.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/s11806-011-0478-z
Geo-spatial Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
database engine,3d geospatial information system,semantic rela-tionship,3d city models,levels of detail,semantic rela- tionship clc number p208,visual analysis,geospatial data,real time,level of detail,software architecture,three dimensional
Geospatial analysis,Data science,Visualization,Geospatial PDF,Database engine,Integrated management,Software architecture,Mathematics,Database,Spatial database,3D city models
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
2
1993-5153
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.41
3
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yeting Zhang1378.36
Qing Zhu214631.03
Gang Liu39836.92
wenting419115.26
Zhonghua Li510.41
Zhiqiang Du6445.46