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A Repository of Information Visualization Techniques to Support the Design of 3D Virtual City Models

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Innovations in 3D Geo-Information Sciences

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography ((LNGC))

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Virtual 3D city models are used for different applications such as urban planning, navigation, pedestrian behaviour, historical information, or disaster management. These applications require rich information models that associate urban objects not only with their geometric properties but also with other types of information. When designing such models the choice of visualization techniques is far from trivial because the city objects must be displayed together with additional information, such as historical facts, planning projects, pollutant concentration, noise level, etc. Finding relevant techniques depends on a set of criteria such as the type of information, but also on the tasks that will be performed and the associated context. Furthermore, a technique that is relevant when used in isolation may generate visual incompatibilities when used in conjunction with another one. We have defined a model for the representation of information visualization techniques in 3D city models. We have implemented this model as an ontology and a knowledge base of techniques currently used in 3D city models or 3D GIS. The goal of such an approach is to provide a knowledge repository to support the design of 3D virtual city models in which non-geometric information must be presented. In this chapter we describe the model and the ontology of information visualization techniques that we designed. We also show how the associated knowledge base can be used for the selection of visualization techniques depending on different criteria, and for the detection of visual incompatibilities between techniques when used in the same scene.

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Acknowledgments

The work described in this chapter is part of the research “Designing and evaluating 3D knowledge visualization techniques for urban planning” funded by the swiss “Secrétariat d’état à la recherche” (SER No C10.0150) in relation with the COST Action TU0801 “Semantic enrichment of 3D city models for sustainable urban development”.

The model used for illustrating some visualization techniques relates to Carouge city (Switzerland) and has been provided by the Service de la mensuration officielle de l’Etat de Genève (SEMO).

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    Claudine Métral, Nizar Ghoula, Vitor Silva & Gilles Falquet

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Métral, C., Ghoula, N., Silva, V., Falquet, G. (2014). A Repository of Information Visualization Techniques to Support the Design of 3D Virtual City Models. In: Isikdag, U. (eds) Innovations in 3D Geo-Information Sciences. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00515-7_11

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