B-Design3D - Swiss Terrain

B-Design3D built this visual database for Bagira Systems Ltd. It covers more than 8,000 square kilometers of a specific Swiss terrain at ultra high resolutions, includes both forest and dense urban areas, and allows trainees to switch between TV to IR modes. Working with 25m DTM and satellite imagery, as well as vector data of roads, buildings, and vegetation, the team was able to create this large and highly detailed visual database using Terra Vista Probuilder and Creator.

The requirements for this database were highly specific. In particular, all of the buildings in the terrain had to be modeled and textured accurately. Working with Creator, the team at B-Design3D built this highly complex database that contains more than 500,000 accurate 3D residential, industrial, administrative, and historical buildings. Many of these have sloped roofs, chimneys, and cellular antennas.

In addition to the highly detailed urban areas, the team also modeled all of the 3D forests in Creator. The forests include more than half a million trees of various types that were added at real locations. B-Design3D also cut and leveled roads through forests in mountainous areas.