TerrainView-Globe

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TerrainView-Globe
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Maintainer: ViewTec AG, Switzerland
Stable release: 3.4 [+/-]
Preview release: --- [+/-]
OS: Windows 2000/XP
Use: Virtual Globe Solution
License: With costs
Website: http://www.viewtec.ch

TerrainView-Globe is a virtual globe. It allows the visualization of complex 3D geographical data across the entire globe. Special effects included in a spherical earth presentation enable the creation of realistic volumetric clouds, blending of multiple geographical data sets and the visualization of different planets (i.e. Mars). 3D data can be viewed on a local machine or via web stream. It runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP and belongs to the TerrainView Software Suite.

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[edit] Releases

TerrainView-Globe Professional: For small and medium sized organizations. Typical examples are architecture and engineering professionals.

TerrainView-Globe Enterprise: For large organizations and enterprises, for governments and homeland security organizations, defence, United Nations peacekeeping missions, international and multinational companies, financial institutions, energy companies and airlines.

[edit] Functions

TerrainView-Globe supports current geographical data and 3D formats and offers functions like:

  • Moving Map - Select a position in the 2D-map view and get the matching 3D perspective)
  • Easy Navigation with several modes: Fly-, View-, Explore-Mode
  • Dynamic Objects
  • 3D-Measurement
  • Flight Path
  • POI
  • Movie Export
  • Scalable Screenshot (the image resolution can be defined and is only restricted by the power of graphic memory)
  • Daytime/Seasons
  • Sky
  • Distance Fog
  • Volumetric Clouds
  • Rain, Snow

[edit] Main Focus

The main focus of TerrainView is the professional use for technical/scientific and security relevant fields like:

  • Engineering
  • Design & Construction
  • Defence
  • Security
  • Design
  • Research and Development
  • Petroleum- and Gas Industries
  • Tourism
  • Insurances
  • TV/Broadcast
  • Crisis/Catastrophe Management
  • Flight Simulation

Included features are Remote Sensing- and GIS-Applications (Erdas Imagine, ArcGIS, or ER Mapper), CAD-Tools (MicroStation, AutoCAD) and 3D-Products (3ds Max, Maya, Cinema4D). An easy navigation and a simple Workflow enable the user to create 3D-interactive visualizations and presentations quickly.

[edit] Supported Data Formats

In addition to the TerrainView data formats TerrainView-Globe supports the integration of Remote Sensing, GIS - and CAD-Data.

[edit] Digital Elevation Models

  • Arc/Info ASCII
  • Arc/Info Binary (.adf)
  • USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)
  • TIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif)
  • Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1)
  • USGS ASCII DEM (.dem)
  • Atlantis MFF
  • VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt)

[edit] Image Formats

  • ERMapper Compressed Wavelets (.ecw)
  • TIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif)
  • Erdas Imagine (.img)
  • JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
  • JPEG JFIF (.jpg)
  • Multiresolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)

[edit] Vector- and Annotation

  • Arc/Info Binary Coverage
  • ESRI Shapefile
  • Mapinfo File
  • MicroStation DGN
  • U.S. Census TIGER/Line

[edit] Online Support

Viewtec supports its products in an online user forum.

[edit] TerrainView Software Suite

The TerrainView Software Suite consists of the following products:

  • TerrainView-Lite - Free of charge 3D-Viewer
  • TerrainView - VR-Editor/Viewer for 3D-Geo- and Design Data (price on request)
  • TerrainView-Globe - Virtual Globe-Solution (price on request)

Add-On Modules

  • TerrainView-Remote Control - enables the user to integrate real time data feeds or dynamic creation of objects
  • TerrainView-CMAX - multi-channel solution
  • TerrainView-Video - high resolution video export at any frame rate
  • TerrainView-Web - free browser plug-in for Netscape, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer

[edit] Company

The ViewTec, founded in 1998, is a spin-off company emerging from the University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science, Switzerland. The qualifications of the ViewTec AG are:

  • 3D-SW-Developement (VR-, Immersive-Applications, Virtual Globe-Solutions, Simulation, Remote Sensing)
  • 3D-Services (Construction of streaming Digital Terrain and Landscape models, hosting of streaming data)
  • 3D-Visualization- Science/Technique
  • Online support http://www.viewtec.ch/forum

[edit] See also

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