Pocket Panorama: 3D GIS on a handheld device

Author

Guth, Peter L. ; Oertel, Olaf ; Bénard, Guillaume ; Thibaud, Rémy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Oceanogr., United States Naval Acad., Annapolis, MD, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

13 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

105

Abstract

Pocket Panorama, an original client-server application, provides mapping data and 3D terrain visualizations to a handheld pocket PC. The pocket PC acts as a client to a server PC, which contains all data and performs all display manipulations. The terrain visualization displayed on the client uses the GPS positions transmitted by the pocket PC. All exchanges use the HTTP protocol and remain independent of the network connection used. Within the United States, a networked pocket PC can automatically obtain high resolution maps or aerial photography around its position with a single click of the stylus from the Terraserver Web site.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Web sites; client-server systems; data visualisation; notebook computers; terrain mapping; transport protocols; 3D terrain visualizations; GPS; HTTP protocol; Pocket Panorama; Terraserver Web site; United States; aerial photography; client-server application; data mapping; display manipulations; handheld pocket PC; high resolution maps; network connection; networked Pocket PC; terrain visualization; Data visualization; Geographic Information Systems; Global Positioning System; Handheld computers; Network servers; Photography; Protocols; Terrain mapping; Three dimensional displays; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information Systems Engineering Workshops, 2003. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2103-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISEW.2003.1286791

Filename

1286791