1st Edition

Spatial Multimedia and Virtual Reality

Edited By Antonio S. Camara, Jonathan Raper Copyright 1999
184 Pages
by CRC Press

184 Pages
by CRC Press

The intersection of two disciplines and technologies which have become mature academic research topics in the 1990s was destined to be a dynamic area for collaboration and publication. However, until now no significant book-length treatment of the meeting of GIS and Virtual Reality has been available. This volume puts that situation to rights by bringing these together to cement some common... Read more

I. SPATIAL MULTIMEDIA Multimedia GIS: concepts, cognitive aspects and applications in an urban environment 2 Magic Tour: integrating multimedia and spatial data in an authoring system for tourism 3 Future directions for hypermedia in urban planning 4 Augmenting transportation-related environmental review activities using distributed multimedia 5 Digital video applied to air pollution emission monitoring and modelling 6 CoastMAP: aerial photograph based mosaics in coastal zone management 7 The EXPO'98 CD-ROM: a multimedia system for environmental Exploration 8 Evoking the visualization experience in computer-assisted geographic education 9 Spatial simulation by sketching 10 Defming spatial agents II. VIRTUAL REALITY 11 Virtual reality, the new 3-D interface for geographical information systems 12 A real-time, level-of-detail editable representation for phototextured terrains with cartographic coherence 13 A virtual GIS room: interfacing spatial information in virtual environments

Biography

Antonio S. Camara (Edited by) , Jonathan Raper (City University, London, UK) (Edited by)