With the ever increasing resolution of scanned elevation models, geometry throughput on
the GPU is becoming a severe performance limitation in 3D terrain rendering. In this paper …

Geological structures, both at the surface and subsurface levels, are typically represented by
means of voxel data. This model presents a major drawback: its large storage requirements …

Realistic real‐time rendering and lighting of forests is an important aspect for simulators and
video games. This is a difficult problem, due to the massive amount of geometry: aerial forest …

Sustainable urban planning decisions must not only consider the physical structure of the
urban development but the economic, social and environmental factors. Due to the …

This paper presents a flexible hybrid method designed to render heightfield data, such as
terrains, on GPU. It combines two traditional techniques, namely mesh-based rendering and …

Terrain rendering is a crucial part of many real-time applications. The easiest way to process
and visualize terrain data in real time is to constrain the terrain model in several ways. This …

Panoramic hiking and skiing maps are popular among tourists and map collectors. Such
three-dimensional (3D) maps allow for easy orientation and provide the observer with an …

We propose a highly memory-efficient representation for modeling and rendering urban
buildings composed predominantly of rectangular block structures, which can be used to …

In general, changes in society or the environment are expected depending on changes in
terrain. The faster and more accurately these terrain changes can be observed, the faster …

Advanced architectures have been proposed for efficient orthorectification of digital airborne
camera images, including a system based on GPU processing and distributed computing …