ISPRS WG IV/5

Recent Google Earth city addition: Melbourne Google Earth has recently been expending the number of cities for which it provides 3D building representations (this example illustrate the recent addition of Melbourne). It seems Google Earth has upgraded it’s capacity to display 3D objects within the viewer. A couple month ago only a few objects could be dsiplayed at a time and Google Earth made use of very large amount of RAM memory. The latest release of Google Earth (5.0) can…

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This is an example of an underwater visualisation of a marine habitat on the SW coast of Victoria (produced by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries). It displays school of “old-wife” fishes moving in a shallow sea grass habitat. This visualisation excercise was developped in 3D studio Max and illustrates the strength of this software to create realistic lighting and shadows. We are currently investigating the use of this software to create 3D realistic representations of terrestrial and underwater landscapes and ecosystems….

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Visualisation of a spatialised point model of Asian citrus Psyllid development under climate change conditions (year 2070). Outputs displayed in Google Earth using a time serie and clickable points