Digital City Geographic Information System: Preliminary Exploration of Three-Dimensional City Models in Virtual Urban Environments

Author: Zhu Qing
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: Urban realistic three-dimensional digital representation has become one of the hot topics of universal attention in urban informatization due to its significant application potential in numerous fields such as urban infrastructure management and urban development decision support. How to transition from two-dimensional geographic information systems to three-dimensional descriptions of urban environments is increasingly becoming a cutting-edge issue in urban data management. This book, from the perspectives of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and geographic information engineering, discusses for the first time in a systematic and comprehensive manner the key issues related to the data representation, acquisition, management, and analytical applications of three-dimensional urban models, and describes them uniformly using digital city geographic information systems. This book can serve as a reference for urban digital engineering construction and research and teaching in the field of geographic information.