ABSTRACT
The aim of scientific visualization in landscape exploration is to acquire in one model the most information, while that of GIS is the efficient and rapid retrieval, manipulation, processing, and display of information. In this way, scientific visualization can represent the future of GIS. The three-dimensional investigation of landscape models which include all the data the authors need for research, give us a very different methodological approach to GIS by including interactive procedures for exploring the archaeological landscape. A three dimensional landscape model is the ideal place to implement visualization techniques and at the Scientific Visualization Laboratory of the CINECA, Interuniversity Consortium for Supercomputing, they are developing an interface for the real-time interactive navigation inside three-dimensional models of archaeological landscapes. This could be the first step in experiments in virtual reality, considering the archaeological landscape as a virtual space to explore.
