HYBRID TERRAIN VISUALIZATION BASED ON LOCAL TESSELLATIONS

E. G. Paredes, C. Lema, M. Amor, M. Bóo

2009

Abstract

Hybrid terrain models represent an effective approach to combine geographic data with different acquisition properties. Terrain models constituted by regular grid elevation data may locally integrate detailed TIN meshes to represent morphologically complex terrain features and artificial objects. However, direct rendering of hybrid terrain models poses additional difficulties: holes and geometric discontinuities between the borders of the different parts would appear in the images. In this paper we present two new software based proposals for efficient hybrid terrain visualization. Both proposals generate high-quality geometrically continuous models and support multiresolution methods over regular grids.

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in Harvard Style

Paredes E., Lema C., Amor M. and Bóo M. (2009). HYBRID TERRAIN VISUALIZATION BASED ON LOCAL TESSELLATIONS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-67-8, pages 64-69. DOI: 10.5220/0001768200640069


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp09,
author={E. G. Paredes and C. Lema and M. Amor and M. Bóo},
title={HYBRID TERRAIN VISUALIZATION BASED ON LOCAL TESSELLATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={64-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001768200640069},
isbn={978-989-8111-67-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - HYBRID TERRAIN VISUALIZATION BASED ON LOCAL TESSELLATIONS
SN - 978-989-8111-67-8
AU - Paredes E.
AU - Lema C.
AU - Amor M.
AU - Bóo M.
PY - 2009
SP - 64
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0001768200640069