What is TerraVision?
TerraVision is a distributed, interactive terrain visualization system developed by SRI International. It allows users to navigate, in real time, through a 3-D graphical representation of a real landscape created from elevation data and aerial images of that landscape. See: http://www.tvgeo.com/. • What is unique about TerraVision? TerraVision is a freely-available, cross-platform, and scalable system. TerraVision can browse huge datasets, in the order of terabytes. All data can be distributed over multiple servers across the Web. 3-D models can be overlaid using open standard formats VRML and GeoVRML, e.g. models for buildings, wind vectors, icons, etc. Datasets of different size, resolution, source, and coordinate system are supported. Finally, TerraVision is integrated with SRI’s .geo infrastructure to become a .geo browser. • What is .geo? .geo is essentially a discovery mechanism for any geospatial data across the Web. It allows TerraVision to automatically find all relevant data
