Preprint Virtual Reality Based GIS Analysis Platform
This work addresses the problem of managing and exploring complex 3D urban data for GIS professionals and urban planners, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing VR and GIS technologies.
The authors tackled the challenge of analyzing and visualizing massive 3D city data by developing a VR-based GIS platform that integrates 3D spatial analysis, visualization, and navigation, resulting in a system capable of handling overwhelming amounts of information with great flexibility.
This is the preprint version of our paper on ICONIP2015. The proposed platform supports the integrated VRGIS functions including 3D spatial analysis functions, 3D visualization for spatial process and serves for 3D globe and digital city. The 3D analysis and visualization of the concerned city massive information are conducted in the platform. The amount of information that can be visualized with this platform is overwhelming, and the GIS based navigational scheme allows to have great flexibility to access the different available data sources.