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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,480 Views
15 Pages

Three-Dimensional Visualization of Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests

  • Marcel Meyer,
  • William Thurston,
  • Jacob W. Smith,
  • Alan Schumacher and ,
  • Sarah C. Millington,
  • David P. Hodson,
  • Keith Cressman and
  • Christopher A. Gilligan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Some of the most devastating crop diseases and insect pests can be transmitted by wind over extremely long distances. These low-probability but high-impact events can have severe consequences for crop production and food security by causing epidemic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agrometeorology, Agricultural Water Management and Impacts of Extreme Events)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
18,676 Views
18 Pages

Visualizing 3D Terrain, Geo-Spatial Data, and Uncertainty

  • Steve Dübel,
  • Martin Röhlig,
  • Christian Tominski and
  • Heidrun Schumann

Visualizing geo-spatial data embedded into a three-dimensional terrain is challenging. The problem becomes even more complex when uncertainty information needs to be presented as well. This paper addresses the question of how to visually communicate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,520 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2020

Digital twin technology based on building a virtual digital city similar to a real one enables the simulation of urban phenomena or the design of a city. A geospatial platform is an essential supporting component of digital twin cities. In this study...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,434 Views
50 Pages

8 July 2025

Technological development has strongly impacted all processes related to the design, construction, and management of real estate assets. In fact, the introduction of the BIM approach has required the application of three-dimensional survey technologi...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,060 Views
14 Pages

Integrated Geodetic and Hydrographic Measurements of the Yacht Port for Nautical Charts and Dynamic Spatial Presentation

  • Artur Makar,
  • Cezary Specht,
  • Mariusz Specht,
  • Paweł Dąbrowski and
  • Maciej Szafran

The use of geodetic and hydrographic systems, methods and measuring devices to obtain geospatial data enables integrated modeling of 3D space and related objects. Factors such as the seafloor relief of the marina and land infrastructure need to be co...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
21,790 Views
12 Pages

From IFC to 3D Tiles: An Integrated Open-Source Solution for Visualising BIMs on Cesium

  • Yiqun Chen,
  • Erfan Shooraj,
  • Abbas Rajabifard and
  • Soheil Sabri

The 3D Tiles specification, created by Cesium, is designed for streaming massive heterogeneous three-dimensional (3D) geospatial datasets online using WebGL technology. The program has prevailed in the WebGIS community due to its ability to visualise...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Productive, Livable and Accessible Cities—The Role of 3D City Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,706 Views
17 Pages

A Novel and Extensible Remote Sensing Collaboration Platform: Architecture Design and Prototype Implementation

  • Wenqi Gao,
  • Ninghua Chen,
  • Jianyu Chen,
  • Bowen Gao and ,
  • Yaochen Xu,
  • Xuhua Weng and
  • Xinhao Jiang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Geospatial data, especially remote sensing (RS) data, are of significant importance for public services and production activities. Expertise is critical in processing raw data, generating geospatial information, and acquiring domain knowledge and oth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,626 Views
32 Pages

Exploring Multiple and Coordinated Views for Multilayered Geospatial Data in Virtual Reality

  • Maxim Spur,
  • Vincent Tourre,
  • Erwan David,
  • Guillaume Moreau and
  • Patrick Le Callet

31 August 2020

Virtual reality (VR) headsets offer a large and immersive workspace for displaying visualizations with stereoscopic vision, as compared to traditional environments with monitors or printouts. The controllers for these devices further allow direct thr...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,358 Views
21 Pages

3 February 2022

Urban digital twin (UDT) technology can be used to digitize physical urban spaces. Previous UDT or smart city research reconstructed the three-dimensional topography of urban spaces, buildings, and facilities. They collected various multimodal sensor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Understanding of Sustainable Urban Analytics Using Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
928 Views
24 Pages

To address the challenges of the large-scale georeferencing of tower-based cameras and the limited capability of video-based spatial analysis, we proposed a geospatial mapping method integrating 3D GIS and gradient descent optimization. Using a Digit...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sensing Urban Vitality: Remote Sensing and GeoAI Applications in Urban Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
23,987 Views
20 Pages

18 August 2015

Three-dimensional (3D) point analysis and visualization is one of the most effective methods of point cluster detection and segmentation in geospatial datasets. However, serious scattering and clotting characteristics interfere with the visual detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,521 Views
28 Pages

A Textual Semantic Analysis Framework Integrating Geographic Metaphors and GIS-Based Spatial Analysis Methods

  • Yu Liu,
  • Zhen Ren,
  • Kaifeng Wang,
  • Qin Tian and ,
  • Xi Kuai and
  • Sheng Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 July 2025

Geographic information systems (GISs) have shown considerable promise in enhancing textual semantic analysis. Current textual semantic analysis methods face significant limitations in accurately delineating semantic boundaries, identifying semantic c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications Based on Symmetry/Asymmetry in Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,544 Views
20 Pages

Managing geo-based indoor content is important, because the components used to construct an urban environment are complex. Geospatial data are available worldwide, but services are tailored only to local features. As the accuracy of online maps incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,232 Views
20 Pages

3 October 2025

Traffic crashes remain a critical public safety issue and are among the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Understanding, analyzing, and forecasting crash trends are essential for implementing effective countermeasures and reducing injury severit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent GIS Application in Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,163 Views
16 Pages

Spatial Orientation Skill for Landscape Architecture Education and Professional Practice

  • Carlos Carbonell-Carrera,
  • Jose Luis Saorin and
  • Stephany Hess-Medler

20 May 2020

Professional landscape architecture organizations have requested training from educational institutions based on new skills and methodologies in the curriculum development of students. Landscape architects need to visualize and evaluate the spatial r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Architecture Education and Professional Practice and Its Future Challenges in Landscape Design, Planning, Conservation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,117 Views
32 Pages

7 January 2026

This study develops an immersive marine Information and Communication Technology (ICT) convergence framework designed to enhance coastal climate resilience by improving accessibility, visualization, and communication of scientific research on Dokdo (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Collaborative Approaches for Sustainable Engineering and Industrial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
12,160 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2021

Evaluating the site-selection process for photovoltaic (PV) plants is essential for securing available areas for solar power plant installation in limited spaces. Although the vicinities of highway networks can be suitable for installing PV plants, i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Geographic Information System and Building Information Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,834 Views
25 Pages

Diachronic Reconstruction and Visualization of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites

  • Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez,
  • Ángel Guerra Campo,
  • Ángel L. Muñoz-Nieto,
  • Luis J. Sánchez-Aparicio and
  • Diego González-Aguilera

Cultural heritage (CH) documentation is essential for the study and promotion of CH assets/sites, and provides a way of transmitting knowledge about heritage to future generations. The integration of the fourth dimension into geospatial datasets enab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Acquisition and Processing in Cultural Heritage)
  • Review
  • Open Access
113 Citations
35,995 Views
33 Pages

Google Earth as a Powerful Tool for Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Applications: A Review

  • Lei Luo,
  • Xinyuan Wang,
  • Huadong Guo,
  • Rosa Lasaponara and ,
  • Pilong Shi,
  • Nabil Bachagha,
  • Li Li,
  • Ya Yao,
  • Nicola Masini and
  • Ningke Hu
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

28 September 2018

Google Earth (GE), a large Earth-observation data-based geographical information computer application, is an intuitive three-dimensional virtual globe. It enables archaeologists around the world to communicate and share their multisource data and res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaeological Heritage)