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IMAGINE VirtualGIS

IMAGINE VirtualGIS is a powerful visual analysis tool that offers GIS functions and capabilities in a 3D environment.

Beyond simple 3D renderings and basic fly-throughs, IMAGINE VirtualGIS allows you to quickly and easily create accurate and useful interpretations of the terrain. You can drape aerial photography, satellite imagery and airborne scanner data onto the DEM and then add annotation, vector GIS layers, symbols, billboards, 3D texture-mapped objects, water surfaces and more to create realistic views of the study area.

Independent reviews of IMAGINE VirtualGIS have recognized its superior scene visualization performance at a low cost, as well as its ease-of-use and interoperability between software packages.

IMAGINE VirtualGIS key benefits include:

Assimilate disparate geographic data types into a seamless, global 3D database. For example:

  • Include any number of overlapping and adjacent elevation layers
  • Integrate satellite, radar, aircraft and scanned images from several map projections
  • Drape multiple vector GIS layers simultaneously

    Visualize and understand terrestrial phenomena and features that are only discernible in three dimensions. For example:
  • Reveal the relationship between multiple surfaces, such as geological bedding planes
  • Integrate images with magnetic, gravity, seismic (surfaces) and other data sources
  • Simulate flood conditions and other natural phenomena
  • Understand the relationship between habitat and terrain
  • Enhance and query quantitative attributes in imagery and GIS data

    Simulate unknown or dangerous environments, increasing training safety and saving on logistical costs. For example:
  • Simulate forest environments for field personnel during fires
  • Include the GIS data base within a battlefield simulation
  • Recreate the flight path of an aircraft from recorded telemetry
  • Provide an up-to-date perspective for search and rescue operations
  • Determine the best path, which is not visible to other observers

    Make clear, dynamic presentations to those with little or no experience within the mapping sciences. For example:
  • Provide interactive explorations of transportation and other engineering projects
  • Clearly demonstrate environmental and structural relationships to managers and the public

    IMAGINE VirtualGIS key features include:
  • Simultaneously render multiple adjacent or overlapping surfaces
  • Renders images using multiple resolutions for high-speed performance
  • Optionally display images in wire frame and as reduced resolution solids
  • Drape vector GIS data (point, line, polygon) across the landscape
  • Display of vector and annotation polylines and polygons as 3D objects
  • Place true 3D texture-mapped objects into the scene
  • Geographically link 2D and 3D viewers
  • Create, manage and optimize very large data sets with the Virtual World editor
  • Mouse operated 3D angular pan, zoom and flight control
  • Generate, edit and display flight lines using the flight path editor
  • Tools to generate intervisibility/threat analysis domes from single or multiple observation points, from various heights, and with desired viewing angles
  • Movie creation to several movie formats plus VRML 2.0
  • Real-time lighting effects
  • Weather effects, such as fog and mist
  • Attributed vector or raster layers can be used to automatically populate a scene with 3D models
  • Intervisibility/threat analysis
  • VRML 2.0 support for creating 3D Web content
  • Support for true stereo display (with appropriate OpenGL graphics card and stereo equipment)
  • Real-time anaglyph stereo (no need for specialized graphics cards)
  • Generation of high-resolution 3D images for printing


  • Related Files and Documents

    What's New in VirtualGIS 8.5
    What's New in VirtualGIS 8.4.1
    What's New in VirtualGIS 8.4
    Functionalities and Features of VirtualGIS
    Graphics Card Benchmark for VirtualGIS 8.5 - Version 3.0
    Graphics Card Benchmark for 8.4 - Version 2.0
    VirtualGIS System Requirements
    IMAGINE VirtualGIS Data Sheet
    Choosing a Graphics Card for VirtualGIS


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