True-3D in Cartography: Autostereoscopic and Solid Visualisation of Geodata

Description

As corroborated by the never-sagging and even increasing interest within the last decade, the intuitive attraction of "True 3D" in geodata presentation is well worth covering its current status and recent developments in a compendium like the present one. It covers most aspects of (auto-) stereoscopic representation techniques of both topographic and thematic geodata, be they haptic or not. Theory is treated as well as are many fields of concrete applications. Displays for big audiences and special single-user applications are presented, well-established technologies like classical manual fabrication of landscape reliefs contrast with cutting-edge developments Front Matter....Pages i-xix Perspectives on 3-D Visualization of Spatial Geodata and Future Prospects....Pages 1-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 How true is true-3D ? – Geometry between Single Image Stereograms and Lenticular Foil Displays....Pages 23-41 Survey of True 3D and Raster Level of Detail Support in GIS Software....Pages 43-65 Think Differently: a New Method to Create Lenticular- and Integral-Pictures....Pages 67-81 Truly modelling reality...? - Let’s improve our cognitive maps with a bastard mix of algorithms to “undo” pictures, isometric mapping, high-density diagrams and comic culture as integral sign posts for software development in cartography....Pages 83-95 Front Matter....Pages 96-96 Autostereoscopic Maps on the Basis of Lenticular Foils....Pages 97-104 True-3D Visualization of Glacier Retreat in the Dachstein Massif, Austria: Hard- and Softcopy Displays....Pages 105-117 Front Matter....Pages 118-118 Creating Physical 3D Maps Using Rapid Prototyping Techniques....Pages 119-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 State of the Art of Tactile Maps for Visually Impaired People....Pages 137-151 Hypsometry in Tactile Maps....Pages 153-168 Physical 3D models from LIDAR data as tactile maps for visually impaired persons....Pages 169-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Blurring Boundaries Between Real and Digital/Virtual Globes – Creating virtual globes from real ones and vice versa....Pages 187-198 The Digital True-3D Globe from Willem Janszoon Blaeu....Pages 199-213 State-of-the-art of Tactile Hyperglobes....Pages 215-226 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 Explanation of the BGS Subsurface Viewer....Pages 229-237 Three-Dimensional Visualisation of the Tectonic movement over Mexico by means of the Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements....Pages 239-255 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Terrestrial Laser Scan Application in Urban Planning....Pages 259-264 3D Terrain Visualisation for GIS: A Comparison of Different Techniques....Pages 265-277 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 Cartographic Representation of Dresden’s Historical Development by Projecting a Movie onto a Solid Terrain Model....Pages 281-295 Enhancing Interactive NonPlanar Projections of 3D Geovirtual Environments with Stereoscopic Imaging....Pages 297-312 Front Matter....Pages 313-314 3D Representation of Retreating Glaciers: Anaglyphs and the Geowall....Pages 315-321 High-resolution mapping and visualization of a climbing wall....Pages 323-337 TOPGIS - swisstopo’s Production System for 3D Topographic Databases....Pages 339-348 Temple complex ‘Virtual Nako’ – 3D Visualisation of cultural heritage in Google Earth....Pages 349-356 Challenges and Perspectives for True–3D in Car Navigation....Pages 357-366 Holographic Relief Map Production by using Topographic Line Maps (Digital Carto-Holograms)....Pages 367-388 Front Matter....Pages 389-389 Stereoscopic 3-D solutions for online maps and virtual globes....Pages 391-412 Front Matter....Pages 413-413 The Landscape Relief Model - An anachronism or still a useful object for contemplating the landscape....Pages 415-434 StereoWebMap, A Real Stereoscopic Map Server for the Internet....Pages 435-446 Back Matter....Pages 447-505