Virtual Terrain Community
Organizations, Conferences, Community and News Sites
- 3D GeoInfo
- International Workshop on 3D Geoinformation, subjects of interest: "3D data acquisition technology through remote sensing,
photogrammetry, LiDAR, and visualization technology (3D CAD and VR
system) for 3D urban environments"
- The first conference (3DGeoInfo'06)
was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2006
- Many papers on 3D GIS, urban visualization and related
subjects. The
proceedings are available as 'Innovations in 3D Geoinformation Science'
(ISBN 3-540-36997-X). It is a massive hardcover book, 760 pages
with 438 illustrations. It can be purchased
from amazon.com or
from springer.de (€170).
- 2007: 3Dgeoinfo07: Delft,
Netherlands
- Full title: 2nd International Workshop on 3D Geo-Information: Requirements,
Acquisition, Modelling, Analysis, Visualisation
- 2008-2009 events were in Seoul and Ghent
- 2010: 5th International 3D
GeoInfo Conference 2010: Berlin
- 2011: Joint ISPRS
Workshop on 3D City Modelling & Application and the 6th 3D GeoInfo
Conference Wuhan, China
- 2012: 7th 3D GeoInfo 2012
conference: Québec City, Canada
- 2013: 8th 3DGeoInfo in Istambul
will be November 2013
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OSGeo
- the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
A foundation to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led
open source geospatial software projects, and other related endeavors.
While not particularly 3D, the Open Geo aspects of the group form an
important underlying field for terrain visualization.-
Created
February 2006, it publishes a journal and holds a conference, FOSS4G
- FOSS4G 2006: Lausanne,
Switzerland
- FOSS4G 2007: Victoria, BC
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FOSS4G 2008:
Cape Town, South Africa
- FOSS4G 2009: Sydney, Australia
- FOSS4G 2010: Barcelona, Spain
- FOSS4G 2011: Denver, CO
- FOSS4G 2013: Nottingham UK
- ISDE: International Society for Digital Earth /
International Symposium on Digital Earth
- Although the US "digital earth" initiative was mainly in the 1990s (see Government Projects)
it did lead to a series of interesting international conventions.
- As of 2007, there is a single site for the organization, as
http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/
- Conferences:
- Journal:
- Digital Landscape Architecture (DLA)
- 3D Visualization World
- Online news site which coverts a lot of terrain-relevant subjects.
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SlashGeo
- News and discussion site, a "Slashdot for GIS and Remote Sensing".
- It doesn't get much traffic, but the quality of the news is good.
- 3D Ethics Charter
- A proposal launched in Monaco in February 2011 to try to enforce
some ethical guidelines on using 3D data. It sounds nice enough
(Principle of credibility, Principle of transparency, Principle of 3D
network development and training) but it's not clear how such a thing
would work.
- Digital Landscape Architecture 2009
- Held in Malta, May 21 - 22, 2009
- Topics: "Digital Landscape Design for the Mediterranean Islands,
Landscape Information Models LIMs, 3D, 4D and VR Landscape
Visualization, Teaching Digital Landscape Architecture, Knowledge Based
Landscape Architecture, 3D-Workmethod in Landscape Design"
- Landscape Visualization blog
- Administered by Olaf Schroth, with emphasis on the "landscape" side
of terrain visualization
- Virtual
Globe and Terrain Rendering blog
- A blog by Patrick Cozzi and Kevin Ring of
Analytical Graphics, Inc. who are
apparently writing a large page book on how to implement "virtual globe"
software, expected to be published in summer 2011
- International Society on Virtual Systems
and MultiMedia (VSMM)
- An organization which "seeks to address concerns and issues with the
use of Virtual Reality technologies and provides a foundation for integrating
together the human, technological and strategic aspects of VR under the
umbrella of international exchange, cooperation and development".
- They hold an annual conference, e.g.
VSMM 2004,
VSMM 2005
- Of greatest interest is their
Virtual Heritage Network ("Organization
for the use of technology in Cultural Heritage") which focuses on archaeology
and technologies which overlap with terrain modeling as described on this
site.
- Vis-Sim
-
The
Image Society
- a technical, non-profit, professional association whose purpose
is the technological advancement of real-time visual simulation, related
VR technologies, and their applications, primarily by means of an annual
conferences with papers
- deals with a lot of terrain-related companies and technologies,
mostly "Vis Sim", i.e. aerospace/military
- For many years, vis-sim.org was a great place vis-sim industry news
and gossip, but it shut down in June 2003. Numerous sites sprung
up in its wake.
- modsim.org
- news portal for "the Visual Simulation & Modeling Industry", begun
December 2003
- Virtual Globes Directory
- A central depository for "virtual globe" related links. The term
seems to mean terrain visualization at the global level. They had
a blog, but it's offline as of 2007.
- It's not clear how it relates to another popular blog of the same name,
Geography 2.0: Virtual Globes.
- Geosimulation Homepage
- Geoplace.com
- a news portal primarily for GIS, but increasingly covering terrain visualization
subjects as well
- nextgen3dcity
- First International Workshop on Next Generation 3D City Models Bonn,
Germany, June 2005. It covered many virtual terrain subjects,
see the papers in the
program.
- CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management)
- Bi-annual conference which published many papers overlapping the field
of virtual terrain
- 1997 (Bombay) 1999 (Venice), 2001 (Manoa/Honolulu), 2003 (Sendai),
2005 (UCL London), CUPUM 2009
Hong Kong, CUPUM 2013 Utrecht
- CUPUM seems to be little-known outside of a narrow band of people; those
in the visualization fields and even many of those in urban planning haven't
heard of it!
- WSCG - International Conferences in Central
Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision
2nd 2001 in Fredericton
Canada, "Beyond the Infrastructure”