Project: GESO (Google Earth Sustainale Outlook)

Introduction:

The GESO project visualises the results of the the NL later project in Google Earth (GE).
The satelite images of GE are a nice reference for both the current as the projected land use and GE has many navigation functions, e.g. to fly over the country at different view heights.

The project is a cooperation of the PBL (Netherland Environmental Asssessment Agency), the WUR and Object Vision

Results:

Click here for results of the GESO project.

Examples:

The current land use projection makes use of 3D Shapes, a database with 3D topographical objects, classified to the LUMOS functional land use classes, see figure 1:
figure 1, 3D Shapes used to visualise current land use

For the projected land use, different techniques are developed and evaluated:

  • 2D polygons (small scale), see figure 2
  • 2D iconographic, see figure 3
  • 3D icons (large scale) see figure 4



    • figure 2, 2D polygons to visualise changes in current land use at a small scale


    figure 3, 2D iconographic projection to visualise changes in current land use at a medium scale


    figure 4, 3D icons to visualise changes in current land use at a large scale

    Current and future land use projections can also be combined in one view.

    KeyWords:

  • 3D Visualisation of current and future land use
  • Whole of the Netherlands
  • Google Earth satelite images and navigation functions
  • Functional classification of land use types based on LUMOS classification
  • Spatial indexstructure to download and visualise only relevant information

    • Period:

    The GESO project started at the end of 2007 and finished in the summer of 2008.