Advanced Grid Interfaces for Environmental e-Science: Early Model Work


Static Data Sources

Land-Line.Plus digital map data is digitised from Ordnance Survey Large Scales maps and surveys which show the accurately surveyed positions of the natural and man-made features of the topography.

The data includes outlines and divisions of buildings, land parcel boundaries, road kerbs, rivers and water features. It is derived from three source scales of mapping: Urban (1:1,250 scale) - major towns and cities; Rural (1:2,500 scale) - smaller towns, villages and developed rural areas; Moorland (1:10,000 scale) - mountain and moorland areas.

Buildings, streets, pavements, water and parks are recognised. The height values of the buildings are proportional to their area

A more detailed model can be imported easily using the global coordinates of the Ordnance Survey

Using national data archives of pollution data across the UK. We are focusing on London to start to build novel visualisations of pollution that take into account the actual urban structure. Thus for a desktop they integrate with 3D models of the city, or, for a handheld, the information is scoped based on what you can see.

                        For each point, grey values give the scalar quantity of pollution

                        Position of the static stations that give the input values to construct the model

                        The height of the blue lines gives the confidence of the extrapolated value


Anthony STEED
Last modified: Sun Jul 20 19:59:29 BST 2003