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Geo-spatial visualization for situational awareness

Feibush et al., 1999

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Document ID
16535064239504261733
Author
Feibush E
Gagvani N
Williams D
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings Visualization'99 (Cat. No. 99CB37067)

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Situational awareness applications require a highly detailed geospatial visualization covering a large geographic area. Conventional polygon based terrain modeling would exceed the capacity of current computer rendering. Terrain visualization techniques for a …
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