Development of experimental GIS user interface by fusing real urban landscape image and 3-demensional spatial data

Abstract

Conventional GIS software provides information such as answers to queries by displaying two dimensional map images with a monitor. Users are usually required to make some efforts in interpreting or comparing the results with real landscape or world situations.
This study proposes a more natural or user friendly interface can be devloped which can reduce the distance between the information provided by GIS and the real situations, by fusing real landscape images with three dimensional spatial data on the real-time basis. An experimental GIS user interface was developed based on this idea to demonstrate the possiblities.