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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This is an excellent example of an urban visualization posted by our friends at Digital Urban produced by Infoterra. The interface from private sector to university is an important relationship in making strategic and applied research a reality. It is nice to read about the link between Infoterra and CASA in creating early versions of the Virtual London project. Virtual London – Available via Skape World January 2010.

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  

National Geographic is using new media to inspire people to care about the planet—and to help them understand it. National Geographic gave a presentation (or, at least, their avatars did) at the New Media Consortium’s Symposium for the Future in Second Life, an immersive, 3-D virtual world. NMC staff created an evocative base camp for us, with a campfire and tent, tall grass, binoculars, laptop, and the requisite pith helmet… Click here to go to the blog.

This Google Earth site provides an exciting application of the virtual globe platform for exploring likely climate change impacts and possible climate adaptation futures ahead of the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen in December (COP15). The first of the 5 narrated virtual tours provides an introduction by Al Gore and the remaining 4 tours enable you to explore a number of climate change related issues such as the impact of deforestation and subsequent increased carbon dioxide emissions. Also available from…

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Mt Elephant is geological significant feature situated within the Victorian Volcanic Plains.This photo-realistic landscape fly-though was created using ArcScene based on 1 metre DEM created from LiDAR and aerial photograph . The airphoto is placed in 3D by reading height information from the defined 3D surface. The hillshade and rendering tools from Spatial analyst extention give it a life like appearance.

As part of a course at the United States Military Academy at West Point, maker Roy D. Ragsdale developed aprototype Street View-like camera using a laptop, $300 in off-the-shelf components, and open source software. A Python script captures eight 1280x1024px JPEG files that are then stitched together and uploaded to Google Earth. More information be found in the IEEE SPECTRUM 10-09 Magazine page 14

For those interested in both scientific and geographical visualization this could be the event for you . The OzViz workshop is being hosted by Monash University’s e-Research Centre 3-4 Dec 2009 . Important dates are as follows: Important Dates: Deadline for presentation abstract submission – 1st November 2009 Acceptance notification – 7th of November 2009 Deadline for submissions to the visualisation showreel – 16th November 2009 Workshop – 3rd & 4th of December Note – registration is free for all…

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This is the eighth of a series of presentations given at the MODSIM / ISPRS WGII/6 session on Visualisation in support of management decisions. Title of this presentation: “Service oriented support for heterogeneous software tools in environmental modelling and visualisation” Marcos Nino-Ruiz A copy of the refereed paper can downloaded from the MODSIM conference website: