3D Urban Modeling implements a new perspective into the urban development dynamic process, resulting from the interaction of various influences in the decision making process regarding ground use, zoning and transportation.
3D models are usually created with special software applications called 3D Model Generators. These models are usually derived from a collection of data (points and other information), obtained through a manual process, through algorithm or using a scanner.
The Engineering uses 3D models such as study of new products, vehicles and spatial structures as a prototype of the final version. In the 2000’s, with the coming of technologies such as Image Correlation, LASER Profiling, the geosciences community started to build 3D models of the earth surface in an usual manner.
3D viewing models present a wide variety of applications in Cartography and urban studies, such as: Analysis of Local Situation, Emergency Planning, Urban Zoning, Urban Volumes for environmental Studies, Marketing, Tourism, etc. Even if generally used simply to image built environments, there are applications such as 3D interfaces to more sophisticated simulation models.
Some significant advances were made in the development of “intelligent” 3D models. The currently existing technology enables detailing and simulating urban environment in a way that eases the interaction with the standard user. 3D models can be used both as a friendly interface in the interaction of the urban environment in a GIS for information links in the Internet and in a more complex way, such as to create functional simulation models.
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