VizMAP Presents TerraTours® Visualization at
World Energy Congress
Sydney, Australia
September 1, 2004
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VizMAP, Pty Ltd will present an
interactive 3D visualization of the Surat Energy Province in
Queensland, Australia using TerraSim's TerraTours real-time 3D
viewer, at the
World Energy Congress September 5 - September 9 in Sydney,
Australia. The Surat visualization is a focal point in the exhibit
of the Australian Federal Government's
Invest
Australia initiative.
The Surat Energy Province holds many undeveloped energy
resources, which Invest Australia and the Queensland Government are
working towards developing. VizMAP delivered three contiguous
TerraTours visualizations of the Surat Energy Province, an area
of 450km by 350km, to the Queensland Government, commissioned by the
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines. A fourth
high-resolution TerraTours visualization was delivered which
highlighted the Moura Mine.
The three contiguous visualizations are based on Landsat 7
imagery that was orthorectified, color-matched and mosaiced, as well
as a Geosciences Australia DEM of the area. The fourth
visualization, concentrating on Moura Mine, was based on aerial
photography of the mine and topographic detail collected on the
ground by surveyors at the mine. VizMAP constructed the
visualizations using TerraSim's database construction product,
TerraTools® , and
GISLink™ which compiled the information-rich linked 3D
visualization. Once compiled, the TerraTours query capability
provided interactive access to web sites, photos, movies, site plans
and maps, and other GIS attributes relevant to the area. Coal basin
extents, petroleum leases, mining leases, coal resource layers and
mineral development licenses were set apart by color-coded GIS
polygon "walls".
The Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines expects
the Surat Energy Province project to attract significant attention
at the World Energy Congress and is a wonderful example of how
TerraTools and TerraTours can be used for 3D information
visualization.
For more information on the Surat Energy Province visualization,
please contact Mr. Graeme Brooke of
VizMAP Pty. LTD.
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Moura Open-Cut Coal Mine 140km SW of
Gladstone (Landsat 7 imagery) delivers 6 million tons of
metallurgical coal per annum. |
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Callide Coal Mine 120km SW of Gladstone
(Landsat 7 imagery) delivers 10.5 million tons of medium ash
sub-bituminous thermal coal per annum. |
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This shows Jeebropilly and Ebenezer, 90 km
WSW of Brisbane at the eastern edge of the Surat Coal Basin.
The green transparent fences are TerraTours queriable
Mineral Development Licenses. The yellow fences are Mining
Leases. The blue fences represent the Coal Resource Layer.
The purple fences represent the Coal Basin Extents and the
red fences are Petroleum Leases. |
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Moura Open-Cut Coal Mine 140km SW of
Gladstone (aerial photography) delivers 6 million tons of
metallurgical coal and thermal coal per annum. |
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