Developing 3D geo DBMS for terrestrial laser scanning data

Abstract

Terrestrial laser scan was used to capture data for historical peninsula region in Istanbul, Turkey. These datasets need to be managed efficiently in a 3D database management system. The 3D database is one of the products generated from mapping and GIS initiatives currently being undertaken by the city municipality. This paper describes the development of 3D database with the leading geo- DBMS, i.e. Oracle Spatial 10g for the historical peninsula region in Istanbul. From the database, some information of 3D object could be generated from such 3D database and this could be one of the tools for decision making for the city planning purposes as current GIS software faces some difficulties to perform such operations.