3DGIS(外国英语资料).doc

3DGIS To review and comment on the development of 3D GIS, discusses the basic problems of 3D GIS, such as data acquisition, large amount of data storage and processing, three-dimensional space, and points out that the development provides a good foundation for long-term development to provide the theory and practice experience of scientific visualization, database management system, digital image processing the technology and the maturity of the two dimensional GIS for 3D GIS. Finally, several important points are put forward for the development of 3D GIS practical system. Keywords 3D GIS; basic problem; data structure; 0. introduction The two-dimensional GIS mapping began in 1960s, today has penetrated into all walks of life in society, such as land management, electric power, telecommunications, city network, water conservancy, fire protection, traffic, city planning etc.. But the two-dimensional GIS has its own limitation, which is essentially a system based on abstract symbols, which can not give the primitive feeling of nature. With the development of the application, the elevation information of the third dimension is becoming more and more important. Some 2D GIS and image processing system is now able to deal with the elevation information, but they have not been height variables as independent variables to deal with, only as the attribute variables affiliated treated, can express the surface undulating terrain, but the terrain following information does not have, because of this they are also known as the international and domestic system 2.5 dimensional. In view of the fact that the 2.5 dimension is not closely defined, the author calls it terrain surface 3D or 3D for short. We argue that the surface 3D GIS is essentially still a two-dimensional GIS system. Two dimensional GIS can only deal with the information of plane X and Y axis, and cant deal with the information of Z axis in plumb direction. In its expression, the Z value is usually projected onto the