Abstract
Google Earth and its commercial version, Google Earth Enterprise (GEE), have gained fast popularity in different sectors of geo-spatial platforms past decade. Unfortunately, supports of Google Earth API and GEE system will be stopped in the end of 2015. Cesium engine is a free, open-source, expandable and web-based platform and has a potential for the development and deployment of large-scale web-based 3D geo-spatial visualization and applications. The core of Cesium is WebGL language based on JavaScript, which allows hardware acceleration for high-performance graphics and visualization. It is also cross-platform and cross-browser; therefore has high portability. This study compares the capability of both GEE and Cesium and demonstrates an example of migrating complex 3D geo-spatial visualization and applications from GEE to Cesium-based platforms.
| Original language | English |
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| State | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 36th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing: Fostering Resilient Growth in Asia, ACRS 2015 - Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Duration: 24 Oct 2015 → 28 Oct 2015 |
Conference
| Conference | 36th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing: Fostering Resilient Growth in Asia, ACRS 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | Philippines |
| City | Quezon City, Metro Manila |
| Period | 24/10/15 → 28/10/15 |
Keywords
- 3D city modeling
- Cesium
- Geo-Visualization
- Web GIS