DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING THERMAL ENVIRONMENT DESIGN IN CITY PLANNING

Abstract

This study develops an environmental information visualization system for supporting thermal environment design in city planning. This system is constructed on a all-purpose GIS software. As visualization methods of 3D models, wire frame, surface model and solid model are applied according to a target scale or the characteristics of environmental information. The developed system is able to display urban planning data, landscape, thermal environment and historical data in multi-scale and multi-temporal using the 3D GIS.