Land visualization

Description

The field of geographical information systems has suffered an important advance during the last years. This is due largely to the emergence of land visualization tools that are available through the Internet, and are able to handle large amounts of information. Moreover, government agencies have promoted greater transparency in access and transmission of such information. The emergence of new standards for managing geographic information has reinforced the fact that many organizations are providing free-form data.

Our research center has participated in the development of technologies for the management of geographic information. We have created several graphics tools for terrain visualization, using these standard protocols.We have participated in several projects addressing the deployment of geo-referenced information to solve complex planning and management tasks. On the other hand, we have developed basic tools for displaying virtual globes on new mobile devices.

Members

• Sánchez Pérez, Javier
• Trujillo Pino, Agustín

Publications

• Pedriza, A., Citores, M., de la Calle, M., Gómez, D., Trujillo Pino, A., Santana Núñez, J. M. et al. (2012). Glob3 Mobile: Sistemas de Información Geográficos 3D en entornos de Movilidad.  
• Castrillón, M., Jorge, P. A., López, I. J., Macías, A., Martín, D., Nebot, R. J. et al. (2011). Forecasting and visualization of wildfires in a 3D geographical information system. Computers & Geosciences, 37(3), 390 - 396  
• Sánchez Pérez, J., Trujillo Pino, A. & Salgado de la Nuez, A. J (2010). Adaya: A simple and efficient open source virtual globe. In Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G).  
• Sánchez Pérez, J., Trujillo Pino, A., Lorenzo, A. & Salgado de la Nuez, A. J (2010). An Efficient Tile Management System for Multiresolution Terrain Models. In Chover, M. & Otaduy, M. Á. (editors), Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica (CEIG), pages 17-25. Garceta.  
• Castrillón, M., Jorge, P. A., López, I. J., Macías, A., Martín, D., Nebot, R. J. et al (2009). Wildfire forecasting using an open source 3D multilayer geographical framework. In SIGGRAPH Talks.  

Projects

• Glob3 Mobile (2011 - 2011). Head researcher: Agustín Trujillo Pino.
• Geviemer: Gestor Virtual de Emergencias (2007 - 2008). Head researcher: Javier Sánchez Pérez, Agustín Trujillo Pino.
• Desarrollo de un Mundo Virtual para la Isla de El Hierro. Head researcher: Agustín Trujillo Pino.

PhD Theses

• José Miguel Santana Núñez (2017). New methodologies and techniques on the development of virtual globes for mobile devices and the web. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria