Author(s): ZHANG Jin, ONG Xiao-hua
Pages: 92-98
Year: 2002 Issue:  z1
Journal: ACTA GEODAETICA ET CARTOGRAPHICA SINICA
Keyword:  DEM; multiresolution; LOD; GIS;
Abstract: DEM, which becomes a major component of geographic information processing in earth and engineering sciences, has been studied in the GIS literature for a long time. We use DEM to represent the terrain in GIS. The more data are available, the better representations of a terrain can be built. But not all tasks in the framework of a given application necessarily require the same accuracy, and even a single task may need different levels of accuracy in different areas of the domain. Multiresolution models, such as LOD, offer the possibility of representing and analyzing a terrain at a range of different levels of detail. In this paper, some key issues in multiresolution DEM model are studied. Three main models are focused on Hierarchical TIN(HTIN), multiresolution terrain model based Delaunay and Hierarchical Dynamic Simplification. The advantages and disadvantages of these methods are analyzed. The technology of tile-to-tile edge match is studied to maintain the consistency between adjacent edges and tile edges in HTIN model. And the Hypergraph-based Objected-oriented Model(HOOM) is presented to divide and code spatial area and describe the terrain feature in adding and deleting points based on Delaunay rule retriangulating. The conclusions have been drawn in the end.