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Comprehensible and Interactive Visualizations of GIS Data in Augmented Reality

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2012)

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Most civil engineering tasks require accessing, surveying and modifying geospatial data in the field and referencing this virtual, geospatial information to the real world situation. Augmented Reality (AR) can be a useful tool to create, edit and update geospatial data representing real world artifacts by interacting with the 3D graphical representation of the geospatial data augmented in the user’s view.

One of the main challenges of interactive AR visualizations of data from professional geographic information systems (GIS) is the establishment of a close linkage of comprehensible AR visualization and the geographic database that allows interactive modifications. In this paper, we address this challenge by introducing a flexible data management between GIS databases and AR visualizations that maintain data consistency between both data levels and consequently enables an interactive data roundtrip. The integration of our approach into a mobile AR platform enables us to perform first evaluations with expert end-users from utility companies.

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  1. Graz University of Technology, Austria

    Stefanie Zollmann, Gerhard Schall & Gerhard Reitmayr

  2. GRINTEC GmbH, Austria

    Sebastian Junghanns

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, 92697-3435, Irvine, CA

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  6. Eastman Kodak Company, 14650-2102, Rochester, NY, USA

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  7. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver, 80217, Denver, CO, USA

    Min-Hyung Choi

  8. VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality and Visualisierung, 1220, Vienna, Austria

    Stephan Mantler

  9. California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, 92093, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

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  10. KAUST Visualizatioin Core Lab., 23955-6900, Thurwal, Saudi Arabia

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  11. Stony Brook University, 11794-4400, NY, USA

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  12. Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, IL, USA

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Zollmann, S., Schall, G., Junghanns, S., Reitmayr, G. (2012). Comprehensible and Interactive Visualizations of GIS Data in Augmented Reality. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7431. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33179-4_64

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