The usage of realistic three-dimensional (3D) polygon terrain models with multiple levels of detail (LOD) is becoming widespread in popular applications like computer games or simulations, as it offers many advantages. These models, which represent an actual location in the world, are essential for the simulation-based training of military vehicles like planes, helicopters or tanks. Because training scenarios on this kind of simulations are used to observe or to hit a target on the modeled locat...

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Based on the Med-Atlas 20002 database data at Mediterranean Sea surface, analysis of spatial and temporal variations of temperature and salinity, as well as, the search of its possible trends are the main goals of this work. The used statistical techniques allowed us to obtain various climatological fields of temperature and salinity, on a period of 45 years (1955-1999). Spatial and temporal analysis of those fields shows that the north-south gradient is weaker than the east-west gradient. The s...

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Global geopotential models of spherical harmonic coefficients are used to determine the external gravitational field of the Earth. These coefficients are derived from satellite orbit perturbations, terrestrial gravity anomalies and altimeter data. Hundreds of thousands of coefficients and standard deviation values for these coefficients are estimated from millions of observation. Measurement amount, homogenous distribution of the measurements of global scale, different measurement types reflecti...

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There is a proverb, that emphasizes the importance of sunlight for human health, which is “Where the sun does not enter the physician enters”. It is one of the most important elements to see the sunlight of the buildings for both healthy life and energy saving. The positioning may be desirable to take the advantage of the morning and evening sunlight of the buildings to be constructed in the housing area. Indeed, in 1985 constructed blocks of buildings in Eskisehir Yenikent in public housing pr...

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Digital photogrammetry, using digital camera images, is an important low-cost engineering method to produce precise three-dimensional model of either an object or the part of the earth depending on the image quality. Photogrammetry which is cheaper and more practical than the new technologies such as LIDAR, has increased point cloud generation capacity during the past decade with contributions of computer vision. Images of new camera technologies needs huge storage space due to larger image file...

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Public transportation planning is one of the most important parts of transportation planning and it provides sustainable development for cities. According to only demands of citizen’s and decisions of city managers obstruct for public transportation planning also taking policy in the long time period. Citizen’s demands and city manager’s decisions important factors in transportation planning but the other important factors; city’s and citizen’s characteristic features. Relational structure to be...

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Usage of geospatial data enables decisions to be more effective and stronger in critical fields. Since geospatial data is very expensive source and the most time-consuming step, mostly it is not possible to find the required data ready to use. Therefore different projects have been developed and tried to implement by several countries to keep geospatial data which is required to collect and managed, accessible and usable. At this study Open Geospatial Consortium standarts were explained, the fo...

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The digital cartographic representation of the elevation of the earth's surface created from discrete elevation points is defined as a digital terrain model (DTM). DTMs have been used in a wide range of applications, such as civil planning, flood control, transportation design, navigation, natural hazard risk assessment, hydraulic simulation, visibility analysis of the terrain, topographic change quantification, and forest characterization. Remote sensing, laser scanning, and radar interferometr...

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Highway route design is a difficult process due to the complex structure of the environment. The topography and the natural geographical objects constitute an obstacle for highway constructions. On the other hand, the cost parameter and protecting the environment are main two issues which planners have to consider. Thus, the priorities of the highway routes should be decided according to the requirements and expectations. At this point, Least Cost Path Algorithm (LCPA) makes it possible to i...

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Earthquakes are the most destructive natural disasters, causing massive loss of life, infrastructure damages and serious financial losses. Earthquake-induced building damage detection is a very important step after earthquakes since such buildings pose a risk for cities. The recent advances in digital photogrammetry/remote sensing technology and satellite sensor/camera systems have inspired to emerge new and different research areas and applications. With the development of digital camera techno...

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Doi:10.21324/dacd.271091