1st Edition

Three Dimensional Applications In GIS

Edited By Jonathan Raper Copyright 1989

    Provides a survey of the approaches used and the problems encountered in the model of real geophysical data.

    Preface

    Contributors

    Three dimensional display of geologic data

    J. Nicholas Van Driel

    The 3-dimensionaal geoscientific mapping and modelling system: a conceptual design

    Jonathan F. Raper

    Surface interpolation, spatial adjancey and GIS

    Christopher M. Gold

    Efficient mapping of heavy metal pollution on floodplains by co-kriging from elevation data

    Henk Leenaers, Peter A. Burrough and Joop P. Okx

    The application of a digital relief model to landform analysis in geomorphology

    Richard Dikau

    Visualisation of digital terrain models: techniques and applications

    Robin A. McLaren and Tom J. M. Kennie

    Computer-assisted cartographical 3D imaging techniques

    Menno J. Kraak

    The role of three-dimensional geographic information systems in subsurface characterization for hydrogeological applications

    A. Keith Turner

    Spatial data structures for modeling subsurface features

    Carl Youngmann

    Creating a 3-dimensional transect of earth’s crust from craton to ocean basin across the N. Appalachian Orogen.

    John D. Unger, Lee M. Liberty, Jeffrey D. Phillips, and Bruce E. Wright

    Three-dimensional GIS for the earth sciences

    Dennis R. Smith and Arthur R. Paradis

    Three dimensional representation in a Geoscientific Resource Management System for the minerals industry

    Peter R. G. Bak and Andrew J. B. Mill

    Index

    Biography

    Raper, Jonathan