本文概述了科学可视化对推动科学技术的发展所产生的巨大影响,以及在各领域的科研生产中所发挥的重要作用,并着重分析了可视化技术在林业科研领域中应用的特点、现状和应遵循的发展途径。另外,本文还介绍了作者在森林景物的视景仿真方面的研究成果和经验,并指出了可视化技术在林业科研领域应用中存在的问题和亟待解决的几个关键技术,即(1)自然景物的计算机图形的生成问题;(2)图形数据库管理技术;(3)交互界面的辅助设计工具的开发;(4)多种数据源的一体化管理。最后,对可视化技术在林业科学领域中的应用前景做了美好的憧憬。
Scientific Visualization (SV) produce a great impact in push the science and technology forward,and play an important role in the various domain of science research and production.This paper emphatically summarizes the feature,the present condition and the development ways of SV application in the forestry.Meanwhile,the writer‘s research achievements and experiences in the computer graphics simulation for forest scenery are introduced,then point out the existent problems and several key techniques which are need to be solved immediately,namely,(1)the generation of computer graphics of natural scenery,(2)the techniques of graphical database management,(3)the development of assist design tools for interaction interface,(4)the integration management of the various data from different source.Finally,the paper opens up a magnificent prospect for the application of SV to the domain of the forestry science.
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