GIS based digital roadbed for the Qinghai-Tibet railroad

Author

Guo, Jianwen ; GE, Yingchun ; Shang, Qingsheng ; Ran, Youhua ; Feng, Min

Author_Institution

Cold & Arid Regions Environ. & Eng. Res. Inst., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Lanzhou, China

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

2853

Abstract

The Qinghai-Tibet railroad is the highest plateau railroad in the world. Constructing such a railroad is a great challenge for the Chinese railroad constructors and permafrost scientists. As a support for achieving this task, a GIS based modeling platform, which is also called the ´digital roadbed´, is being built presently. This platform will help to solve the following problems: management of a huge amount of multisource geographical and engineering data, management of a variety of scientific and engineering models, emulation and three-dimensional visualization. Aside from the objectives above, the expansibility of system, that is, the seamless integration of common functions in the system was paid great attention as well.

Keywords

data visualisation; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; railways; visual databases; 3D visualization; China; GIS; IDL; Qinghai-Tibet railroad; digital roadbed; engineering data; engineering model; modeling platform; multisource geographical data; permafrost; plateau railroad; scientific model; Content addressable storage; Data engineering; Educational institutions; Emulation; Engineering management; Geographic Information Systems; Geoscience; Radio access networks; Railway engineering; Spatial databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370287

Filename

1370287