Abstract:

Scientific Visualization (SV) produce a great impact in push the science and technology forward,and play an important role in the various domain of science research and production.This paper emphatically summarizes the feature,the present condition and the development ways of SV application in the forestry.Meanwhile,the writer's research achievements and experiences in the computer graphics simulation for forest scenery are introduced,then point out the existent problems and several key techniques which are need to be solved immediately,namely,(1)the generation of computer graphics of natural scenery,(2)the techniques of graphical database management,(3)the development of assist design tools for interaction interface,(4)the integration management of the various data from different source.Finally,the paper opens up a magnificent prospect for the application of SV to the domain of the forestry science.

Key words: Visualization, Graphics, Natural scenery, Forestry