{"id":183772,"date":"2005-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/geodec-enabling-geospatial-decision-making\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:48:46","slug":"geodec-enabling-geospatial-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/geodec-enabling-geospatial-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoDec: Enabling Geospatial Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>The vision of GeoDec is to enable an information-rich and realistic 3-dimensional visualization and\/or simulation of a geographical location (e.g., a city), rapidly and accurately.  The idea is not just to allow navigation through a 3-D model, but to be able to ask queries and get information about the area seamlessly and effortlessly.  The main challenge is: How to quickly and cheaply integrate, visualize, and simulate all aspects of a geographic region.  The ability to create high-fidelity information-rich models of cities is critical for a wide variety of decision makers.  For example, in the United States, GeoDec can be used by city managers, city planners, emergency response planners, and first responders.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I will first motivate GeoDec and explain its vision.  Next, I will briefly discuss our current activities in the following areas towards the realization of GeoDec:<\/p>\n<p>Rapid construction of accurate 3-D models of buildings from two aerial images with minimum user\u2019s interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Visualization and accurate rendering of static and dynamic (i.e., [live] video) textures on the constructed 3-D models.<\/p>\n<p>Automatic integration and accurate fusion of various geospatial (e.g., maps, road-networks) and geospatially-related (e.g., web yellowpages) data into the models.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I will conclude with a demonstration of the current prototype of GeoDec.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vision of GeoDec is to enable an information-rich and realistic 3-dimensional visualization and\/or simulation of a geographical location (e.g., a city), rapidly and accurately. 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