Immersive 3D Visualization of Remote Sensing Data

Abstract

Immersive 3D Visualization is a java based Engine for viewing the Data of aerial images in the Three Dimensional with provision for simulation and fly through. This application is based on java Technology and works as standalone application, applet or in the browser. Immersive 3D Visualization is a good application to use where the area of interest is to view the interested regions rather than the big images. The Immersive 3D Visualization is a application that is designed on Java 3D Technology and Open Graphics Libraries. The Java3D Technology of envisages the three Dimensional view of the picture and Open Graphics Libraries allows one to view the rendered data on to the screen. This visualization application is java based hence no portability issues. The Data for this work is collected from the various sites like Google earth, USGS web site for the data viewing. This work takes an advantage of modelling the 3D DEM data on the visualized portion of the screen, and thus this approach is optimized. We are assumed that the DEM is coming from the other source or it is simulated Data in order to view the three-dimensional pictures. The Process of Collecting the Data and projecting on to the screen is done by collectively Open Graphics Libraries and Java 3D Technology. In this work any image can be viewed as 3D with the use of DEM data, which can be created with use of certain selected values, where as in the case of Google Earth it is not possible to see your own image in 3D. The work done here can be used for selected region of interest, unlike Google Earth, which is used for continuous streaming of data. Our work on 3D immersive visualisation can be useful to GIS analyst to view their own images in 3D.