Skyline based 3D visualization system construction for wind farm
                                                         FANG Xiao liang, ZHANG Kan kan, LI Jin, ZENG You cong
                                      （ZhongNan Engineering Corporation Limited, PowerChina, Changsha 410014, China）

Abstract: Aiming at the demands of quick visualization and dynamic information management of large scale wind farm, a Skyline based method was proposed for dynamically constructing three dimensional scenes of wind turbine generator system （WTGS）. The proposed method firstly utilized TerraBuilder software to generate 3D basic terrain scenes for Wind Farm. Then 3D refined models of tower, nacelle and wind turbine rotor were unifiedly built by SkechUp tools, respectively. Finally, the 3D model of wind farm was dynamically constructed by combining three 3D refined models according to the associated position and attribute information. The results indicate that our method can rapidly realize 3D representation and dynamic simulation of wind turbine generators.

Key words: Skyline; 3DGIS; wind farm; information management