3D underground reconstruction for real-time and collaborative virtual reality environment

Abstract

Urban planning has become a relevant issue to achieve the sustainable development of the modern cities. It requires ubiquitous systems including 3D GIS capabilities and high performance without many hardware requirements. This paper deals with the development of a web application to visualize, interact and explore, through 3D perspective, the underground infrastructures of our college campus. Its 3D reconstruction raises many challenges which remains to be surmounted. The main aim of this research is the 3D modeling of underground infrastructure in order to real-time analytics of its current features. In addition, this system supports virtual reality technology to interact with the GIS data into a collaborative environment available to be performed with mobile platforms.