[X3D-Public] Tourtelotte Thesis on X3D Earth globe construction

Tue Oct 19 23:44:35 PDT 2010

Hi Christoph

In the thesis you will find a link to http://www.openstreetmap.org/ where all ( well most ) roads and rr-lines are plotted.
It's possible to export an geo area in xml format. Roads are in diffrent colour and railroads have diffrent shape depending on trackwidth.
An example: look at Landquart in east swiss where there are 2 rr-companies on the same rr-station SBB and RhB and you will note the diffrences in shape of the track. Same as in Altstätte north of Landquart.
The programs describes the rout of the track ( in 2D ) and changes the pattern on the track with railwidth.
One "challenge" can be to add the 3-dimention ( altitude ) to tracks and roads, to make them usefull in a 3D sceene.
As roads also have diffrent pattern and colour it could be possible to convert them to different 3D shapes.
A second challenge can be to find points in the rr/street roads where ther can be banks, cutting or bridges. www.openstreetmap.org<http://www.openstreetmap.org> gives some usefull hints where rr or/and streets crosses eachother.
Anyone who have merged geo-space with openstreetmap generated xml file.

Have some ideas for vegitaitons but they are not readdy to publish yet.

/Sven-Erik Tiberg

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From: x3d-public-bounces at web3d.org [mailto:x3d-public-bounces at web3d.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Valentin
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To: Don Brutzman; x3d-public at web3d.org; x3d-earth at web3d.org
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Subject: Re: [X3D-Public] Tourtelotte Thesis on X3D Earth globe construction

Hello Don

A very interesting topic.

I would have got a humble question.

Will the provisioning of this data base be a centralized provisioning or a distributed provisioning?

As some may know, I'm thinking about simulated railroads by X3D, and my question would be:

Assume two countries A and B with two railroad operators, who use such simulator for international trains moving from A to B or vice versa.

Would the X3D-Earth database be provided by
   - railroad operator A
   - railroad operator B
   - both of them somehow "together"
   - a third party
   - everyone has an own copy of the whole data base
   - etc.

Just I'm curious (I read that first interest is military interest, but I wouldn't preclude non-military usage)

Kind regards
Christoph

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Datum: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:49:23 -0700
Von: Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu>
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Dale Tourtelotte is presenting his completed thesis today on the
X3D Earth working group teleconference. Questions are welcome.
We will discuss his accomplishments and multiple opportunities
for future work.

https://savage.nps.edu/Savage/documents/10Sep_Tourtelotte.pdf
https://savage.nps.edu/Savage/documents/10Sep_TourtelotteSlides.ppt

Tourtelotte, Dale, X3D-Earth: Full-Globe Coverage Utilizing Multiple Datasets,
Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, September 2010.
Second readers Byounghyun Yoo and Don McGregor.

Abstract:
U.S. Armed Forces are typically utilizing and paying for commercial proprietary licensed products to visualize geospatial scenes, which nevertheless are themselves derived from government-produced data. This is unsatisfactory. This thesis has developed an open-source, royalty-free method for generating full-coverage 3D globes using the Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics International Standard. Specifically, this thesis designs and generates robust globe models developing an instance of full global coverage utilizing X3D-Earth. In order to show interoperability and "Mash up" capabilities, multiple formats are used, including DTED Level 0 and NGA-produced satellite imagery. Imagery and corresponding terrain datasets are preprocessed using image processing and terrain parsing software, creating the X3D-Earth quad-tree tiles into multiple level-of-detail (LOD) file archives. Finally, these pyramidal, locale scenes are grouped and connected to form an overall X3D-Earth globe. Preproces

sing, processing and data storage are performed with the NPS Hamming Supercomputer. The result of this work is a methodology for generating X3D-Earth locales that is suitable for massive replication, optimization and reuse. Current results are promising and further work is warranted. The ultimate product is expected to further enable new tactical capabilities, provide direct end-user control of visualization-data pedigrees, and enable improved operational and navigational situational awareness for all deployed warfighters.

all the best, Don
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