A Generation Method of Spatially Encoded Video Data for Geographic Information Systems

  • Joo, In-Hak (Spatial Information Technology Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Hwang, Tae-Hyun (Spatial Information Technology Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Choi, Kyoung-Ho (Spatial Information Technology Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Jang, Byung-Tae (Spatial Information Technology Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

In this paper, we present a method for generating and providing spatially encoded video data that can be effectively used by GIS applications. We collect the video data by a mobile mapping system called 4S-Van that is equipped by GPS, INS, CCD camera, and DVR system. The information about spatial object appearing in video, such as occupied region in each frame, attribute value, and geo-coordinate, are generated and encoded. We suggest methods that can generate such data for each frame in semi-automatic manner. We adopt standard MPEG-7 metadata format for representation of the spatially encoded video data to be generally used by GIS application. The spatial and attribute information encoded to each video frame can make visual browsing between map and video possible. The generated video data can be provided and applied to various GIS applications where location and visual data are both important.

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