GeoVRML

Point of Contact: Dr Martin Reddy

Mailing address:
AI Center
SRI International
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Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493

Software Description

GeoVRML is an official Working Group of the Web3D Consortium. It was formed on 27 Feb 1998 with the goal of developing tools and recommended practice for the representation of geographical data using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). The desire is to enable geo-referenced data, such as maps and 3-D terrain models, to be viewed over the web by a user with a standard VRML plugin for their web browser.

The group has recently produced the GeoVRML 1.0 Recommended Practice document that details a number of new extensions to VRML for supporting geographic applications. There is also an accompanying Open Source Java sample implementation of these nodes. This work is now being added as an ammendment to the VRML ISO standard.

Developers

	Name	Title	E-mail
	Iverson, Lee A	Alumnus
	Leclerc, Yvan G	Alumnus
	Reddy, Martin	Alumnus

Associated Projects

	Battle Assessment and Data Dissemination (BADD) Provided three-dimensional (3-D) site model data for integration with terrain data from other project participants, and provided our terrain visualization system, TerraVision, as an alternative visualization technology.
	Creating and Visualizing the Digital Earth Developing a connected suite of technologies with the vision of enabling a massive, scalable, and open model of the planet where millions of users can interact with vast quantities of geographically referenced data over the Web
	Multidimensional Applications and Gigabit Internet Consortium (MAGIC) II MAGIC II consisted of a consortium of industry and academic institutions building a very general paradigm in which high-performance computing, storage, and communications are used to provide rapid access to massive amounts of data over the Internet

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