3D terrain visualisation for GIS: A comparison of different techniques

• Main Authors: Ruzinoor, Che Mat, Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid, Mahmud, Ahmad Rodzi, Pradhan, Biswajeet
• Other Authors: Buchroithner, Manfred
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/17226/; http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12272-9_18
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

Geographic Information System (GIS) applications are now moving towards 3D as it has a better representation of the real world.Most GIS applications now can be visualised not only in 2D but also in 3D.Currently most of the applications are capable of operating in an online environment such as Google...