3D engine and JMAP coupling: towards a dynamic and immersive mapping platform
Source : Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et génie CanadaProgramme : Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative (RDC)
Période : 2019-2021
Chercheur(s) du centre impliqué(s):
- Sylvie Daniel
- Frédéric Hubert
K2 Geospatial solutions connect, consolidate and publish data that are often managed and stored in silos throughout different systems. Such solutions are driven by JMAP, a powerful map based integration platform designed to connect silos and provide easy to use interfaces. The mapping interface proposes a two-dimensional visualization and interactions with the data. However, the past few years new geospatial sensors for acquiring 3d data as well as technologies for the 3d modeling of environment and urban infrastructures are emerging and rapidly evolving. There is a need for K2 Geospatial to improve and adapt JMAP in order to enable 3d model-based visualisation, analysis and queries. The benefit of the third dimension in decision-making is well acknowledged. Further JMAP adaptations are needed to comply with the Internet of Thing (IoT) and handle these new time-dynamic sources of geospatial data in real time. Moreover, as mixed and virtual reality technologies are getting traction in various fields, innovative solutions are needed to be able to visualize map-based interface at interactive rates in immersive display environments. The main objective of the project described in this proposal is to design and develop new methods and solutions to display and query in JMAP large scale 2d/3d data sets as well as real time geospatial data flow in web-based platform and in immersive display environments. To meet our main objective, we propose to address the following short-term objectives: 1) devise tools to transform usual 3d geospatial data to Cesium 3d tiling format; 2) develop a means to integrate and render Cesium 3d tiles in JMAP; 3) develop a method for time-dynamic streaming of data for displaying dynamic objects and data flows in JMAP; 4) Explore and develop techniques for the direct application and visualization of map-based interface using mixed reality technologies. To comply with the industrial partner expectations and to demonstrate the main objective realization, JMAP-based prototypes will be implemented and tested.
