[Qgis-developer] Seamless 3D Landscape Explorer...for QGIS

[Ivan Mincik]

On Wednesday 26 May 2010, MORREALE Jean Roc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to point out the existence of a 3D visualization software
> using OGRE [1] and Quantum GIS, it is called Seamless Landscape Explorer
> (SLE). It has been in development since at last 2008 [3] by Sébastien
> Griffon and Daniel Auclair, both from a french public research
> department [2].
>
> This is a virtual visualization tool aiming to help to represent the
> evolution of an existing landscape [5] using land use layers, DEM and
> orthophotos. These data are manipulated and prepared under QGIS [4]
> (selection of the sources, display area, choice of the attributes) and
> once ready, are exported to SLE for the 3D part. Each attribute can be
> associated to a texture or a 3D model. One should not see it as an
> nviz-like but it still is an awesome tool.
>
> The dependencies are Ogre / Qt / Caelum for skys&clouds/ Paged Geometry
> / GDAL / Libnoise / QGIS
>
> I found out about this software only today via a qgis'user on a french
> gis board and a quick search had led me to conclude that it could also
> be a pleasant surprise for some of you around here. I'll contact these
> researchers to get more informations (availability, license, etc.) and
> will report it here. Don't forget to watch out the videos [6]!
>
> Regards,
> MORREALE Jean Roc
>
> [1] OGRE3D is a 3D C++ engine, more at http://www.ogre3d.org/about
> [2] botanic and bioinformatic research unit http://amap.cirad.fr
> [4]
> http://umramap.cirad.fr/amap2/logiciels_amap/uploads/Documents/griffon/SLE_
>User_Manual_Final.pdf [5]
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/h358804815884241/
> [6] http://umramap.cirad.fr/amap3/cm/index.php?page=videos
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Looks very interesting. How many such projects are unknown to us ?

-- 
Ivan Mincik