NWO - Big Data Analytics

3D urban environments consist of large collections of complex objects, which have rich semantic properties and attributes such as materials, colors, etc. Modeling and storing these properties indicating the relationships between them is best handled in a relational database. A single spatial DBMS that offers functionality for geo-spatial modelling and management of geometric, semantic and appearance properties in one place, thus avoiding the need for multiple software tools associated with high volume data transfer and format transformations. Such an infrastructure can facilitate big data analytics in urban modeling. Urban 3D models can be used in visual, thermal or acoustic simulations to various kinds of navigation models for humans, ground vehicles and drones.

We explored how representing geography and the physical environment in 3D can support spatial planning.