Abstract
The analysis of complex 3D data is a central task for many problems in the geo- and engineering sciences. Examples are the analysis of natural events such as mass movements and volcano eruptions as well as 3D city planning and the computation of 3D models from point cloud data generated by terrestrial laser scanning for 3D data analysis in various domains. The volume of these data is growing from year to year. However, there is no geo-database management system on the market yet that efficiently supports complex 3D mass data, although prototypical 3D geo-database management systems are ready to support such challenging 3D applications. In this contribution we describe how we reply to these requirements advancing DB4GeO, our 3D/4D geo-database architecture. The system architecture and support for geometric, topological and temporal data are presented in detail. Besides the new spatio-temporal object model, we introduce new ideas and implementations of DB4GeO such as the support of GML data and the new WebGL 3D interface. The latter enables the direct visualization of 3D database query results by a standard web browser without installing additional software. Examples for 3D database queries and their visualizations with the new WebGL interface are demonstrated. Finally, we give an outlook on our future work. Further extensions of DB4GeO and the support for the data management for collaborative subway track planning are discussed.
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The entire geometric model of DB4GeO is based on the model of simplicial complexes introduced in the context of GIS by Egenhofer and Moise, cf. Breunig (2001).
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3D-Model of “The Thinker” by Simon Schuffert (KIT), all rights reserved.
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We thank Thomas Kolbe from the Technical University of Berlin, the City of Berlin and Ordnance Survey of Great Britain for the CityGML data sets. Furthermore, we are grateful to Simon Schuffert from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for providing the 3D model of the figure “The Thinker”. This research has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), grant no. BR2128/12-1 and BR2128/14-1.
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Breunig, M., Butwilowski, ., Golovko, D., Kuper, P.V., Menninghaus, M., Thomsen, A. (2013). Advancing DB4GeO. In: Pouliot, J., Daniel, S., Hubert, F., Zamyadi, A. (eds) Progress and New Trends in 3D Geoinformation Sciences. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29793-9_11
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