German-Sino project approved
“Enrichment, quality assessment and visualization of digital landscape models”

Enhance virtual reality

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Recently the application of project “Enrichment, quality assessment and visualization of digital landscape models” at “German Ministry of Education and Research” for the research exchange between Chinese three institutes(Jun Chen-NGCC, Guonian Lv-NJNU, Qing Zhu-WHU) and three institutes in Germany (Meng - TUM, Heipke + Sester -  University Hanover) has been approved (Code: CHN 08/024).

Being stimulated by the potential of high-end information techniques and motivated by the strategic perspective of establishing national and international geodata infrastructure, the applicants started a German-Chinese bundle project (DFG) on “Interoperation of 3D Urban Geoinformation” in 2006 with a common goal to promote the seamless availability and accessibility of up-to-date 3D urban information. The participants of the bundle have been working on various individual subprojects with the main task to develop or refine methods for acquisition, updating and visualisation of urban information. The bundle has also initiated a scientific exchange plan that takes the form of bilateral workshops and mutual visits for the exchange of intermediate research results. The general objective of this proposal is to intensify the on-going scientific exchange, encourage the involved young scientists to work hand-in-hand with their partners on the basis of gained mutual understanding, and prepare an operable platform for a long-term bilateral cooperation under the umbrella of BMBF and Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. Three research topics or work packages in the field of geoinformation sciences will be addressed:

- Enrichment of digital landscape models supported by geometric and semantic transformation algorithms as well as spatial data-mining technologies

- Updating and quality assessment of geospatial databases with an emphasis on road networks based on (semi)automatic algorithms for object extraction from high-resolution aerial and satellite images

- Visualisation and usability test of interactive landscape models for multiple output devices based on multimedia cartographic semiotics and design patterns of web-services.