Different visualizations and used data sources of the mountain battlefield on the Soča/Isonzo front line

ABSTRACTThe Soča/Isonzo front line was about 90 km long battlefield area along the Soča (ital. Isonzo) river valley and the surrounding mountain tops and ridges, running from the Julian Alps (Slovenia) in the north to the Gulf of Trieste in the south. Using available historical data, sketches, rare photographs and written documents, supplemented with contemporary aerial photographs, orthophotos and airborne lidar data, we interpreted the exact position of fire trenches, supply tracks, barracks, cable lifts and other objects for selected areas. A variety of visualizations and presentations, such as changes of the front line during some battles, space-time cubes, augmented reality visualisations, and animated flyovers, were prepared from various computational environment and background image datasets.