Towards 3D raster GIS: On developing a raster engine for spatial DBMS

Three-dimensional (3D) raster are simple representations, which have long been used for modelling continuous phenomena such as geological and medical objects. However, they can result in large data sets when high resolution is used, which poses challenges to algorithms for vector-to-raster conversion and data storage. This paper presents a...

Voxelization Algorithms for Geospatial Applications: Computational methods for voxelating spatial datasets of 3D city models containing 3D surface, curve and point data models

Voxel representations have been used for years in scientific computation and medical imaging. The main focus of our research is to provide easy access to methods for making large-scale voxel models of built environment for environmental modelling studies while ensuring they are spatially correct, meaning they correctly represent topological and...

Voxel GIS: Challenges and Opportunities