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TerraVision: A terrain visualization system

Leclerc et al., 1994

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2889338550668760094
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Leclerc Y
Lau S
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SRI International, Technical Note

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TerraVision is a system for visualizing terrain. That is, it allows a user to view, in real time, a synthetic recreation of a real landscape created from elevation data and a large number of aerial images of that landscape. The goal of the system is to allow a user to roam about a …
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