Nowadays 3D Geoinformation is needed for many planning and analysis tasks. For example 3D city
and infrastructure models are paving the way for complex environmental and noise analyzes. 3D
geological sub-surface models are needed for reservoir exploration in the oil- gas- and
geothermal industry. Thus 3D Geoinformation brings together researchers and practitioners from
different fields such as the geo-sciences civil engineering 3D city modeling 3D geological
and geophysical modeling and last but not least computer science. The diverse challenges of
3D Geoinformation Science concern new approaches and the development of standards for above-
and under-ground 3D modeling efficient 3D data management visualization and analysis. Finally
the integration of different 3D approaches and data models is seen as one of the most important
challenges to be solved.
