Information on Terrain from the 3D category

3DEM - Interactive OpenGL 3D viewer with flyby and animation capabilities. Reads most familiar US DEM formats and can export to common image and terrain formats. [Win95/98/ME/2000]

Atlas - The FlightGear mapping utility - Produce and display charts of the world for users of FlightGear

Blueberry3D - A program for designing and creating virtual landscapes utilizing real map data or synthetic data from fractals. Fractals are also used to dynamically extend the data and level of detail. [Win 98/SE/Me/2k]

Demeter Terrain Rendering Engine - A cross-platform

G-Graphix - Makers of G-Vista

Generating Terrain - An older (1996) collection of documentation

Genova - Premier demonstration site for G-Vista Web technology. '3D Flight Over Switzerland' uses 25 meter satellite imagery to build 3D scenes to be streamed and visualized over the internet.

Height Map Editor - Free program that edits

HeightField Lab - Generate

InReality (tm) Model Viewer - Visualization tool that permits the user to view RealSite (tm) models within a virtual environment. [IRIX

Interactive Visualization Systems - IVS of the University of New Brunswick develops software specializes in interactive 3D exploration of ocean floor surfaces

KLevel Heightfield Tool - A heightfield modelling tool designed to mimic Leveller for Windows. It features an OpenGL preview and many brush-like tools. (free

Landsraad - Alpha version of a terrain editor/viewer for BeOS.

Leveller by Daylon Graphics - Heightfield

Mapper - Earth data processing and visualization system. It can combine data from different sources and in varying formats to a single view. It is not an image processing tool but rather builds a 3dimensional model of the earth. [Win95/NT] 1997

MapRender3D - Modeling and visualization software package that creates relief maps in both 2D and 3D using either proprietary global elevation database or public domain DEMs. Features include projections

Natural Scene Designer - Raytracing based landscape renderer with object (trees

nineteen70five - Specializes in the import of GIS data sets and creation of a GIS viewer

OBVIO - A free win32 3D viewer which demonstrates Dynamic Level of Detail (DLOD)

OpenGL Terrain Engine - An experimental OpenGL interactive terrain viewer with surface textures

OpenSkies Training System - Free authoring tool for virtual environment training system. A low cost PC-based system which incorporates trainee performance measurement capability. [Win9x/NT/2k]

Skyline Software System - A complete

SpatialAce - Toolkit for building interactive real-time applications with 2D or 3D presentations

TechNature Library - A collection of rendering

Terrain Modelling - A number of scholarly pages covering visualization techniques

TerrainPro by MultiGen-Paradigm - Produce large area terrain databases with real-world data and 3D culture (eg. roads) and imagery

TerrainView-Web - Plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer to allow interactive visualization of high-resolution 3D terrain data directly over the internet.

TerraVision by ART+COM - These guys have big ideas: "A complete virtual 1:1 map of the earth." and "In a nutshell

The Aeliom Portal - Aeliom allows real time generation

UrbanModeller - Software for visualisation of non-tangible data related to the urban environment. It may be used to construct 3D thematic 'maps' such as land use. A component of the Virtual Field Course from the U. of Leicester. [Win9x/NT/2k]

Vista LSS for Windows - 3D views and realtime virtual tours with textured and heighted features. Built on Terrain LSS

VistaPro - Create 3D landscapes using real-world data from the United States Geological Survey and extra-terrestrial data from NASA. [Win9x+]

Wilbur - Small program for playing with terrain data (height fields). Imports data from and to many popular file formats. Can use a number of image processing operations and height field painting tools. (Free

World Construction Set - Professional photorealistic terrain modeling

WorldPerfect - A standalone Windows desktop utility for generating high resolution terrain databases from photo-realistic imagery