NOAA-AVHRR and 4D GIS-towards a more realistic view of fog clearance

Author

Bendix, Jörg ; Berthmann, Frank ; Reudenbach, Christoph

Author_Institution

Inst. of Geogr., Munchen Univ., Germany

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2235

Abstract

The development of a 4D GIS application for the realistic rendering of fog clearance is presented. The system comprises of a 2D raster GIS, a 3D volume rendering technique and a 4D animation procedure. The application extensively uses NOAA-AVHRR data to provide a realistic view of fog coverage and fog optical properties

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; computer graphics; data visualisation; fog; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; weather forecasting; 2D raster GIS; 3D volume rendering; 4D GIS; AVHRR; NOAA; animation procedure; atmosphere; boundary layer; computer graphics; fog; fog clearance; fog coverage; geographic information system; geophysics computing; meteorology; optical properties; realistic rendering; realistic view; remote sensing; scientific data visualization; surface layer; weather forecast; weather forecasting; Clouds; Data visualization; Geographic Information Systems; Geography; Meteorology; Numerical models; Optical films; Remote sensing; Satellites; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.775087

Filename

775087