GIS Solid Modeler:

This graphic system will represent a convergence of image
processing, animation, GIS, and remote sensing technologies.  The
information gathered, manipulated, and processed by this system
will facilitate resource evaluation, management, and public
interpretation.  The GIS information base assembled will describe
the cultural site at the scale of an historic district, park, or
region.  The system will graphically integrate spatial data
relevant to the natural and cultural resources within site
boundaries, as well as those environmental influences in close
proximity to the site which will impact resource management
decisions.  The information layers generated by sensing
techniques will be analyzed and digitally integrated into a
graphic 3-D model of physical landscape characteristics that will
assist resource managers in understanding the multidimensional
character of the cultural scene.  

The animated 3-D GIS will provide the basis for the generation of
a surrogate landscape that will assist resource managers in
understanding the evolution of the historic resource, and the
interaction between the cultural and natural landscape. 
Predictive modeling will be used with the animated GIS solid
modeler to discover landscape sites of cultural significance,
such as prehistoric sites of human settlement, sites of historic
activity, and the subtle, unrevealed imprints of the cultural
experience on the landscape as a whole.  Further animation
efforts will generate simulations depicting identified cultural
sites in their historic or prehistoric context. 

<ffile51>   Animation and 3-D Graphics
<ffile67>   Integrated Planning