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Web-based visualization of spatial objects in 3DGIS

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Adaptive rendering large and complex spatial data has become an important research issue in a 3DGIS application. In order to transmit the data to the client efficiently, this paper proposes a node-layer data model to manage the 3D scene. Because the large spatial data and limited network bandwidth are the main bottlenecks of web-based 3DGIS, a client/server architecture including progressive transmission methods and multiresolution representations, together with the spatial index, are developed to improve the performance. All this makes the application quite scalable. Experimental results reveal that the application works appropriately.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    LiQiang Zhang, LiXin Zhang, XingMing Zhang & Ling Yang

  2. Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    ZhiFeng Guo

  3. Department of Geodesy and Geomatics, School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    ZhiZhong Kang

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Supported by the National High-Tech Research & Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2006AA12Z220, 2006AA12Z114), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB714403), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60502008)

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Zhang, L., Guo, Z., Kang, Z. et al. Web-based visualization of spatial objects in 3DGIS. Sci. China Ser. F-Inf. Sci. 52, 1588–1597 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-009-0146-1

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