System architecture for 3D terrafly online GIS

Author

Rishe, Naphtali ; Sun, Yanli ; Chekmasov, Maxim ; Selivonenko, Andriy ; Graham, Scott

Author_Institution

Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

273

Lastpage

276

Abstract

We present the architecture of 3D TerraFly, a three-dimensional extension of TerraFly, which is a Web-enabled geographic information system designed for visualization, analysis and composition of remotely-sensed imagery. 3D TerraFly has a client/server architecture. The client-side application is a web-embedded component called the 3D TerraFly Viewer that performs 3D terrain rendering and interactive navigation. The server side applications include texture imagery servers and mesh servers that, respectively, handle texture data requests and mesh data requests.

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; data visualisation; geographic information systems; image texture; interactive systems; mesh generation; rendering (computer graphics); solid modelling; terrain mapping; 3D terraFly online GIS; 3D terrain rendering; Web-embedded component; Web-enabled geographic information system; client/server architecture; data visualization; interactive navigation; mesh server; remotely-sensed imagery; system architecture; texture imagery server; Bandwidth; Data visualization; Geographic Information Systems; Image analysis; Information retrieval; Internet; Navigation; Remote sensing; Rendering (computer graphics); Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Software Engineering, 2004. Proceedings. IEEE Sixth International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2217-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSE.2004.80

Filename

1376672