The objective of disaster scenes is to share location-based risk information to a large audience in an effective and intuitive way.However,current studies on three-dimensional(3D)representation for dam-break floods ha...The objective of disaster scenes is to share location-based risk information to a large audience in an effective and intuitive way.However,current studies on three-dimensional(3D)representation for dam-break floods have the following limitations:(1)they are lacking a reasonable logic to organize the whole process of dam-break floods,(2)they present information in a way that cannot be easily understood by laypersons.Geospatial storytelling helps to create exciting experiences and to explain complex relationships of geospatial phenomena.This article proposes a three-dimensional virtual representation method for the whole process of dam-break floods from a geospatial storytelling perspective.The creation of a storyline and a storytelling-oriented representation of dam-break floods are discussed in detail.Finally,a prototype system based on WebGL is developed to conduct an experiment analysis.The results of the experiment show that the proposed method can effectively support 3D representation of the spatiotemporal process of dam-break floods.Furthermore,the statistical results indicate that the storytelling is useful for assisting participants in understanding the occurrence and development of dam-break floods,and is applicable to the popularization of disaster science for the general public.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 41941019 and 41871289]the Sichuan Science and Technology Program[grant numbers 2020JDTD0003 and 2021088]the Sino-German(CSC-DAAD)Postdoc Scholarship Program[grant number 2021(57575640)].
文摘The objective of disaster scenes is to share location-based risk information to a large audience in an effective and intuitive way.However,current studies on three-dimensional(3D)representation for dam-break floods have the following limitations:(1)they are lacking a reasonable logic to organize the whole process of dam-break floods,(2)they present information in a way that cannot be easily understood by laypersons.Geospatial storytelling helps to create exciting experiences and to explain complex relationships of geospatial phenomena.This article proposes a three-dimensional virtual representation method for the whole process of dam-break floods from a geospatial storytelling perspective.The creation of a storyline and a storytelling-oriented representation of dam-break floods are discussed in detail.Finally,a prototype system based on WebGL is developed to conduct an experiment analysis.The results of the experiment show that the proposed method can effectively support 3D representation of the spatiotemporal process of dam-break floods.Furthermore,the statistical results indicate that the storytelling is useful for assisting participants in understanding the occurrence and development of dam-break floods,and is applicable to the popularization of disaster science for the general public.
