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To modernize defense planning and rehearsal, VRAI used Cesium for Unreal to build the Virtual All-Domain Environment (VADE), enabling users to deeply examine areas of interest before arriving. 

VADE uses Cesium to mirror operational reality. Courtesy VRAI. 

Virtual All-Domain Environment (VADE) uses Cesium to mirror operational reality. Courtesy VRAI.

This Is VADE

An immersive XR platform in the works since 2021, VADE began as a proof of concept between simulation data company VRAI and the Royal Air Force for comprehensive situational awareness and could scale across Defence. VRAI announced VADE’s full release at DSEI in fall 2025. 

Real-world 3D data and live collaboration in VADE enable a common operating picture (COP) for detailed planning and faster decisions. Add XR, and troops familiarize themselves with a location before deploying. VADE can be set for individuals or in multiplayer mode, accessed via desktop app or with headsets.  

The tool’s capabilities span domains: 

For drone intervisibility studies, users can draw routes, mark waypoints at each kilometer, and determine blind spots at specific locations and heights to ensure proper placement anywhere on the globe.  

With a volumetric tool for battlespace management and deconfliction, airspace coordination via VADE is accurate and intuitive.  

High-altitude parachute insertion simulations include trackback lines for descent, giving the distance to the drop zone throughout the line; users can view the line from the aircraft or the ground, with the surroundings they can expect to see.  

Because VADE allows users to customize for NATO standards, slopes turn red if they’re not sufficient for helicopter landing sites (HLS). 

Although VADE is not a targeting tool, users can examine the impacts of explosives. 

Restricted operating zone for UAS overwatch. Courtesy VRAI.

Intervisibility study to ensure proper placement. Courtesy VRAI.

Route planning, with directional arrows and optional kilometer markers. Courtesy VRAI.

Gun target line (GTL) tool. Courtesy VRAI.

GTL and impact of explosives. Courtesy VRAI.

VADE employs Cesium World Terrain and Bing Maps Aerial imagery with Cesium for Unreal to enable users to navigate to places that matter for their missions, manipulating the time of day and simulating weather conditions, with high-fidelity rendering. When users are online, they can pull in Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles for exercises in urban areas, and Vexcel data is a boon when VADE is used as part of an airgapped solution via Cesium ion Self-Hosted.  

The VADE library includes data via Cesium ion; 3D models of aircraft, tanks, and other vehicles; NATO map marking symbols for friendly forces and enemy capabilities; and user-specific sources, like their own imagery, photogrammetry, or GitHub repos. VADE connects to users’ private Cesium ion accounts for hosting, tiling, and streaming efficiently. Using geospecific data via Cesium saves VRAI engineers and their users days of work per location and obviates the need for hand modeling or geotypical data, improving situational awareness and decision speed and reducing the cognitive burden on those tasked with complex planning and rehearsal. 

“It’s a transformative way of planning for defense. We operate in multiple dimensions—why wouldn’t we plan in multiple dimensions?” said Ant Casson, former Squadron Commander in the Royal Air Force and VRAI’s business development lead for the UK and Europe. “The possibilities are endless for VADE, enabled by the powerful tools provided by Cesium for Unreal.”

The VADE library includes 3D models of aircraft, tanks, and other vehicles. Courtesy VRAI.

VADE is dual use: in addition to its defense value, the app’s live 3D COP enables better decisions with real data for emergency services, disaster relief, critical national infrastructure planning, large event planning, and agricultural monitoring.  

Learn to integrate 3D geospatial data when clarity, confidence, and speed matter most. 

VRAI Delivers Virtual All-Domain Environment with Cesium for Unreal 

ガーナとトリニダード・トバゴにおけるAI都市再構成とCesiumによる3D可視化

2025年、国連宇宙部（UNOOSA）と英連邦事務局が共同で推進する「Commonwealth Digital Twin Project」において、Cesiumが重要な役割を果たしました。本プロジェクトは、気候変動の影響を受けやすい英連邦諸国を対象に、AIと衛星データによる3D都市モデルと洪水・高潮シミュレーションを構築し、住民の防災力を高める国際的な試みです。

洪水リスクが高い2カ国を対象に

初期対象として選ばれたのは、西アフリカのガーナとカリブ海のトリニダード・トバゴ。いずれも近年洪水被害のリスクが高まっており、かつ現地政府や関連機関が協力的であったことから選定されました。今後は、同様の課題を抱える他の英連邦諸国にも水平展開が想定されています。

AIで生成された都市モデル × 国連防災シミュレーション

このプロジェクトでは、日本のスタートアップ企業SpaceData社が、Vantor社（旧Maxar社）の高解像度衛星画像（30cm級）を用い、AIによる自動処理によってLOD1〜LOD3レベルの都市モデルを生成しました。これにより、空港や港など主要なインフラのデジタルツインが構築され、洪水や高潮による災害シミュレーションも実装されました。一方、洪水・高潮の影響評価には、国連宇宙部の国連防災緊急対応衛星情報プラットフォーム（UN-SPIDER : the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response）の技術監督のもと、災害シミュレーションとガーナ及びトリニダード・トバゴのステークホルダーへの展開が実施されました。今後はこれらのデジタルツインを活用し、浸水シナリオに応じた避難ルートの最適化や避難建物の指定など両国の避難計画の立案や更新に寄与することが期待されます。

「使える3D」への橋渡し：東京大学・渡邊英徳研究室 Watanave Labの役割

この都市モデルや防災シナリオを、誰でもブラウザ上で閲覧・操作できる形で可視化したのがCesiumです。実際の可視化と3D Tiles変換を担ったのは、東京大学大学院 情報学環 渡邊英徳教授の研究室　Watanave Labです。

LOD付きの都市モデルを受け取った研究室では、BlenderやUnityなどの中間ツールも活用しつつ、Cesium ionによる3D Tilesへの変換を実施。その後、Cesium Stories上に成果物をまとめることで、住民・行政・研究者が“視て理解できる”デジタルツインが完成しました。

ガーナ・ジェームスタウン漁港の海面上昇による影響シミュレーション(Cesium Stories)

トリニダード・トバゴ空港における海面上昇による影響シミュレーション（Cesium Stories）

ガーナ・ジェームスタウン漁港およびトリニダード・トバゴ空港における海面上昇の様子（Cesium Stories）

SpaceData社との役割分担：処理の高度さと可視化の手軽さ

このプロジェクトの先進性は、SpaceData社の高度なAI処理能力と東京大学 Watanave LabによるCesiumを活用した手軽かつ強力な可視化機能の連携にあります。

SpaceData社の処理：光学衛星画像からAIで自動抽出、構造化されたLOD付き建物データを生成。これは属性情報付きのメタデータ構造を持ち、将来的な災害分析にも活用可能。



東京大学 Watanave Labでの処理：SpaceData社によって生成された3DデータをCesium ionで軽量な3D Tiles形式に変換・高速配信し、ブラウザだけで閲覧可能な状態に展開。さらに時間軸・シナリオ・地形・属性情報との連動も可能。



とくにCesium Storiesの機能は、技術知識がなくても地元行政や教育関係者が操作・説明できるUIを備えており、今回のような国際防災協力のビジュアル表現に最適です。

ArcGISとの役割分担と今後の展望

なお、この成果はArcGIS Onlineとのハイブリッド運用も想定されています。ArcGISは属性分析・専門的な防災解析に活用され、Cesiumはその可視化・共有・住民説明・多国間連携に最適なプラットフォームとして位置付けられています。

国連宇宙部担当者は、「今後、英連邦諸国の他地域への展開においても、このCesium + SpaceData + 東大モデルをひとつの標準構成として検討したい」と述べており、本事例はグローバル展開の第一歩となる可能性を秘めています。

この取り組みは、単なる技術実証にとどまらず、洪水など災害のリスクが高い地域に、AI・衛星・3D技術を届けるという社会的意義を持っています。

Cesiumは、今後も国際社会における現実に根ざした3D活用を支援し続けていきます。

あなたのプロジェクトにも、Cesiumを。3D都市表示、リスクの可視化、共有がすぐに始められます。是非　Cesium ionアカウントに登録してみてください。

Harnessing 3D with Cesium for Disaster Resilience: International Collaboration among the United Nations, the University of Tokyo, and SpaceData


 AI-driven urban reconstruction and 3D visualization in Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago

In 2025, Cesium played a vital role in the Commonwealth Digital Twin Project, a joint initiative led by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Commonwealth Secretariat. The project aims to build 3D urban models and simulate flood and sea level rise using AI and satellite data in Commonwealth countries (former British dependencies) that are especially vulnerable to climate change, helping to strengthen community-level disaster resilience.

The first countries selected for the pilot phase were Ghana in West Africa and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean—both facing increasing flood risks and demonstrating strong cooperation from local governments and stakeholders. The project is expected to scale to other Commonwealth countries facing similar challenges.

AI-generated urban models + UN-based flood simulation

In this project, the Japanese startup SpaceData used Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence)’s high-resolution satellite imagery (approximately 30 cm) and AI-based automated processing to generate city models with levels of detail (LOD). This enabled the construction of digital twins of key infrastructure such as airports and ports, as well as the implementation of disaster simulations for flooding and storm surges.

For flood and sea level rise risk assessment, simulation was conducted by integrating the urban models with Digital Elevation Models (DEM), following methods recommended by the the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER). This made it possible to identify vulnerable zones and visualize their potential impact.

From data to usable 3D: The University of Tokyo’s Watanave Lab

Cesium was used to visualize the 3D urban models and disaster scenarios in a browser-accessible, interactive format. This transformation was led by Professor Hidenori Watanave’s research lab at the University of Tokyo’s Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies.

The lab received the LOD-structured city models, used intermediate tools such as Blender and Unity, and converted the data into 3D Tiles with Cesium ion. This conversion step was conducted entirely within Cesium ion, ensuring that the resulting tiles were optimized for web-based streaming and visualization.The results were then presented using Cesium Stories, providing a digital twin accessible to residents, government officials, and researchers.

Jamestown Fishing Harbour, Ghana, in Cesium Stories.

Airport in Trinidad and Tobago in Cesium Stories.

Visual simulations of sea level rise impact at James Town Fishing Harbour in Ghana and the airport in Trinidad and Tobago (source: UNOOSA—Cesium Stories).

SpaceData × Cesium: combining advanced processing and seamless visualization

A hallmark of this project was the seamless integration of SpaceData’s AI-powered processing and Cesium’s powerful and accessible visualization capabilities.

SpaceData: Used AI to automatically extract and generate structured building data with LOD and rich metadata from optical imagery—enabling future disaster analysis and simulation use.

Cesium: Transformed the resulting 3D data into lightweight, streamable 3D Tiles for fast web-based visualization. This includes integration with time-based scenarios, terrain models, and attribute data.

Cesium Stories were especially effective for non-technical users, enabling local governments and educators to easily interact with and explain the 3D content—ideal for use in international disaster resilience communication.

Coordination with ArcGIS and future outlook

The outcomes of this project were also designed for hybrid operation with ArcGIS Online. While ArcGIS was leveraged for attribute and technical analysis, Cesium served as the platform for public-facing visualization, sharing, civic engagement, and international collaboration.

“As we expand this initiative to other Commonwealth nations, we are considering this model—Cesium + SpaceData + University of Tokyo—as a reference configuration.”

This project may serve as a blueprint for wider global deployment.

This initiative goes beyond a mere technical demonstration—it is a socially meaningful effort to deliver satellite imagery, AI, and 3D technologies to regions facing high disaster risk.

Cesium continues to support the practical use of 3D geospatial technology to address real-world global challenges.

Just like in this project, Cesium users tackle global issues—for AI-enhanced city modeling, disaster risk visualization, or public communication.

Get started with Cesium ion to immediately build and share 3D urban visualizations, simulate disaster impacts, and collaborate across teams—all in a web browser.

Cesiumが拓く、3D可視化による防災の未来：国連・東京大学・SpaceDataの国際連携

In October, we introduced Google Maps 2D Tiles in Cesium ion and had a busy month with events: Intergeo, FOSS4G Japan, AUSA, YII, ArchiFuture, and the 133rd OGC Member Meeting. This week we’re at FOSS4G NA in Reston, Virginia—join us at our talks and stop by the Cesium table to chat with the team.  

The stunning mountains of Kauai, Hawaii, visualized with Cesium World Terrain and the Google Maps 2D Satellite asset from Cesium ion.

We made improvements across Cesium this month. To get notifications about our monthly releases, you can subscribe to the Cesium release roundup thread on our community forum.

CesiumJS 1.135 is now available. Highlights of the release include:

Added experimental support for loading 3D Tiles as terrain, via Cesium3DTilesTerrainProvider. See the PR for limitations on the types of 3D Tiles that can be used. #12296 

Added support for EXT_mesh_primitive_edge_visibility glTF extension. #12765 

Improved performance of scene.drillPick (#12916), removing primitives (#3018) and terrain Quadtree handling of custom data. (#12907) 

Removed support for the KHR_spz_gaussian_splats_compression extension in favor of the latest 3D Gaussian splatting extensions for glTF, KHR_gaussian_splatting and KHR_gaussian_splatting_compression_spz_2. Please re-tile existing Gaussian splatting 3D Tiles. #12837 

This release contained a number of community contributions, including three from user Beilinson. If you’re interested in helping too, check out our contributors guide. 

Sandcastle has been updated at https://sandcastle.cesium.com!

glTF model demonstrating the EXT_mesh_primitive_edge_visibility extension in CesiumJS. Customization of edge colors will come in a future release.

Cesium for Unreal v2.21.0 is now available. Highlights of this release include:

Added ICesium3DTilesetLifecycleEventReceiver interface, allowing applications to receive callbacks when a material is instanced, when a tile changes visibility, when a tile is unloaded, etc. 

Fixed a bug where CesiumCreditSystem would not filter out empty credits, resulting in duplicate on-screen delimiters. 

Improved CesiumGeoJsonRasterOverlay’s support for polygons with holes and for datasets with geometry on both sides of the antimeridian. 

Check the Cesium for Unreal release and the Cesium for Unreal Samples release for the full list of updates.

Download the Cesium for Unreal plugin from Epic Marketplace

Infrared weather data across North America overlaid on satellite imagery from Microsoft Azure.

Cesium for Unity v1.19.0 is now available. Highlights of this release include:

Added CesiumGoogleMapTilesRasterOverlay to stream imagery from Google Maps. 

Added CesiumAzureMapsRasterOverlay to stream imagery from Microsoft Azure. 

Added assetOptions to CesiumIonRasterOverlay to pass JSON-string options to Cesium ion as it accesses an asset. 

Check the Cesium for Unity changelog for the full list of updates, and follow our Cesium for Unity tutorials to get started. 

Traffic in Philadelphia, PA, USA, visualized over a roadmap layer from Microsoft Azure alongside Cesium OSM Buildings.

Cesium ion now keeps track of which user created a story or uploaded an asset when that user is acting as a member of a Team account. 

Cesium ion now allows users to copy assets and stories between accounts to which they have access, such as from their individual Community account to a Team account. 

In Cesium Stories, added a feature to clip the terrain around a model. 

Added support for spherical harmonics when viewing Gaussian splat assets. 

Added support for tracking the creator of an asset and a story. 

Fixed an issue in reality tiler that could cause incorrect materials to be mapped to meshes when loading OBJ files. 

Fixed an issue where repositioning an asset would cause the re-archive process to fail. 

Fixed a bug with 3D Tiles imports from Microsoft Azure. 

Fixed an issue that could cause models with multiple sets of texture coordinates to be subdivided more than necessary. 

Check the changelogs for the full list of updates for Cesium ion SaaS and Cesium ion Self-Hosted.

We added a feature to Cesium Stories to clip the terrain around a model.

In November 2025, we added a feature to Cesium Stories to clip the terrain around a model. 

Clip Terrain in Cesium Stories

Terradepth's AUVs collect vast amounts of 3D seabed data hosted on Cesium ion Self-Hosted and streamed to its CesiumJS-powered app, Absolute Ocean.

Glider Sim uses Cesium for Unity and Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles to deliver a globally immersive and highly realistic VR flight experience for both casual explorers and professional pilots.

Google Maps 2D Tiles are now available through your Cesium ion account. With the addition of Google Maps 2D Tiles, Cesium ion users now have access to another high-resolution, up-to-date global imagery option to pair with Cesium World Terrain for precise and visually compelling context for 3D geospatial applications. 

This CesiumJS sandcastle shows how to include the Google Maps 2D Tiles and Bing Maps Imagery assets available through Cesium ion in a CesiumJS app.

Cesium ion includes a suite of preconfigured Google Maps 2D Tiles content assets: 

Cesium ion SaaS users will find the data in the Asset Depot, ready to stream. The next release of Cesium ion Self-Hosted will enable those users to link their installations to their SaaS accounts to access the data, or they can contact support to configure access.

Google Maps 2D Tiles assets available in Cesium ion.

These assets are easy to integrate into Cesium runtime engines. If you're building with Cesium for Unreal or Cesium for Unity, you can quickly add Google Maps 2D Tiles assets to your project via the Quick Add panel. 

In the Unreal Engine Editor, the Cesium for Unreal plugin Quick Add panel lists commonly used combinations of global imagery and terrain available from Cesium ion. Cesium ion's Google Maps 2D Tiles assets are now included. 

Using the APIs, developers can also customize these assets by including options for overlays or styling, allowing for tailored visualizations that suit application needs. For example, in the CesiumJS Sandcastle below, the satellite data has been adjusted to add roads and labels and to set the color of road markers.  

Explore this CesiumJS Sandcastle to learn how to customize the styling of Google Maps 2D Tiles assets provided through Cesium ion.

To simplify usage tracking, Google Maps 2D Tiles have been added to the Bing Maps monthly quota to create the new Global Imagery quota. The monthly allowances for each type of Cesium ion plan are unchanged.

As Microsoft retires the Bing Maps service, Cesium is taking proactive steps to ensure a smooth transition and a range of imagery choices for our users. Adding Google Maps 2D Tiles is just the beginning. In the coming months, we’ll share more updates about new imagery options and the timeline for Bing Maps data deprecation through Cesium ion. We’re committed to ensuring our users have ample time to transition. 

The island of Kauai, Hawaii, visualized from above with Cesium World Terrain and the Google Maps 2D Contour asset from Cesium ion. 

Buildings surrounding Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain, visualized with Google Maps 2D Roadmaps and Cesium OSM Buildings assets from Cesium ion.

Google Maps 2D Satellite imagery of Boulder, Colorado, accessed from Cesium ion and with custom styling to add roadmaps with selected colors.

Ready to explore Google Maps 2D Tiles in your application? Check out this tutorial to get started. We’d love to hear your feedback and learn what other imagery datasets you’d like to see in Cesium ion. 

Introducing Google Maps 2D Tiles in Cesium ion 

In September, we released Cesium Mars, highlighted MicroStation’s 3D Tiles support and Cesium Native integration, and announced participants in the iTwin Activate cohort focusing on Cesium and 3D Tiles. We also attended the GeoGov Summit and welcomed Khronos members to Philadelphia for the F2F meeting. 

Cesium Mars is a 3D Tileset to enable developers, researchers, and mission planners to create visualizations and simulations of the Red Planet. 

Cesium Mars

CesiumJS 1.134 is now available. Highlights of the release include:

Added Google2DImageryProvider to load imagery from Google Maps. #12913 

Converted voxel raymarching to eye coordinates to fix precision issues in large datasets. #12061 

Fixed vertical misalignment of glyphs in labels with small fonts. #8474 

Fixed flickering artifact in Gaussian splat models caused by incorrect sorting results. #12662 

Sandcastle has been updated at https://sandcastle.cesium.com! The legacy Sandcastle app will remain available through November 3, 2025. 

Cesium for Unreal v2.20.0 is now available. Highlights of this release include:

Added support for rendering glTFs with line primitives. 

Added UCesiumGoogleMapTilesRasterOverlay. 

Added AssetOptions property to UCesiumIonRasterOverlay. 

In addition to the above, this release updates cesium-native from v0.51.0 to v0.52.0. See the changelog for a complete list of changes in cesium-native. 

The Google Maps attribution requirements were updated to use the "Google Maps" logo instead of the "Google" logo. Cesium ion and Cesium clients now use the Google Maps logo. If your application includes its own logic for the inclusion of the logo rather than using a logo provided by Cesium, see Google Maps' documentation for guidance about whether your application needs to be changed. 

Support for spherical harmonics for Gaussian splats. 

v1.7.1 is now available, with minor bug fixes. 

Fixed an issue that could cause incorrect materials to be mapped to meshes when loading OBJ files.

Fix export issues for some elements in Revit 2026. 

Fix incorrect transforms for some exported subcomponent elements. 

Support for Mars data added to imagery-tiler, terrain-tiler, and quantizedmeshto3dtilesconverter.

point-cloud-tiler handles PLY files with any number of comments now.

point-cloud-tiler fixed issue where in certain cases when using draco compression with .pnts output could result in batch table data not being written.

imagery-tiler added TileJSON format support.

For years, Propeller has been using CesiumJS to visualize drone-captured surveys of earthworks, quarries, mines, and waste management sites. Propeller recently got an upgrade when its team incorporated Cesium’s Design Tiler into the platform. 

For Propeller’s users, streaming IFC files as 3D Tiles means a faster, higher quality experience. They can analyze large files, like viewing cross sections of this IFC model. Courtesy Propeller.

In August, we attended SIGGRAPH, MODSIM World, TAK Offsite, and P3DL; celebrated YouthMappers’ grant-funded 3D course; and introduced iTwin Platform to Cesium developers.  

Follow the tutorials to kickstart your use of iTwin Platform with Cesium.

CesiumJS 1.133 is now available. Highlights of the release include:

Added Ellipsoid.MARS for use with Mars terrain and imagery. #12828 

Added spherical harmonics support for Gaussian splats, supported with the SPZ compression format. #12790 

Added support for the EXT_mesh_primitive_restart glTF extension. #12764 

Fixes issue where a Gaussian splat tileset would be rendered even if out of current camera view. #12840 

Removes the minimum tile threshold of four for WMTS. #4372 

Fixed a crash when loading PNTS (point cloud) data that contained a batch table without a binary part. #11166 

For more details, see the changelog. We also welcome your thoughts on the new version of Sandcastle.

The path of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover rendered in CesiumJS. Data courtesy NASA, European Space Agency, and the USGS Astrogeology Science Center.

Cesium for Unreal v2.19.1 is now available. Highlights of this release include:

Added assets for the IAU2015 Moon and Mars ellipsoids under Content. 

Added a missing CesiumRuntime.h include in CesiumPropertyAttribute.cpp that broke compilation in v2.18.0 on Windows. 

Fixed a bug in FCesiumVectorStyle that made polygons use the color mode from LineStyle instead of PolygonStyle. 

Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when undoing and redoing deletion of a CesiumRasterOverlay component. 

Fixed a crash in UCesiumLoadGeoJsonDocumentFromIonAsyncAction that occurred when a Cesium ion server was not specified. The action will now fall back to the default ion server, similar to ACesium3DTileset. 

Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect ellipsoid parameters to be used when loading a level. 

In addition to the above, this release updates cesium-native from v0.50.0 to v0.51.0. See the changelog for a complete list of changes in cesium-native. 

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars, viewed with Cesium for Unreal in Unreal Engine.

Cesium for Unity v1.18.0 is now available. Highlights of this release include:

Added option to ignore the KHR_material_unlit extension to force default lighting on tilesets. 

Fixed a bug where CesiumCreditSystem did not accurately track the loading progress of images, which could result in missing credits. 

Fixed a bug where CesiumPointCloudRenderer could dereference a null CesiumPointCloudShading on Cesium3DTileset. 

Coming soon: Cesium Mars. Stay tuned for the full announcement later this week. 

Fixed an issue with texture size estimation for tiles, which could negatively impact performance and cause tileset trees to be deeper than necessary. 

Fixed an issue that would cause some tile textures to have an invalid sampler index. 

Fixed an issue that could cause a crash or invalid material references when loading a glTF file with multiple primitives that reference the same material. 

Fixed an issue where materials would be incorrectly handled when loading multiple glTF files. 

Fixed an issue where translucent IFC materials were being considered opaque. 

Fixed an issue where an excessive number of tiles would be generated when processing nodes with a single point. 

"The most brilliant engineering designs, no matter how well crafted, remain unrealized until their vision can be clearly communicated and understood by all stakeholders," said Wayne Sullivan, visualization lead at infrastructure engineering and consulting firm Parametrix. This philosophy drives Parametrix’s Advanced Visualization team: a group of software engineers and 3D artists using Cesium for Unreal, Cesium ion, and Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles to enhance public outreach and help win project bids by making complex designs easier to understand. 

High-fidelity, photorealistic renderings of a proposed design helped the City of Las Vegas secure a $25 million grant for the Stewart Avenue Complete Streets project. Courtesy Parametrix.

本記事は、2025年6月23日にShehzan Mohammedによってリリースされた記事を、今回日本語化したものです。

CesiumがBentley Systemsの一員となってから約9ヶ月が経ちました。この間、私たちはBentleyの技術を深く理解し、それをコミュニティにどのように還元できるかを探ってきました。今回、初のCesium Developer Conferenceを機に、皆さまからのご意見を広くいただくべく、iTwinによるデジタルツイン機能をCesiumに統合するためのロードマップ案を共有します。

当社のミッションは、「人工環境と自然環境が融合する3D地理空間体験をコミュニティが自由に構築できるようにすること」です。3D Tilesの活用は着実に拡大しており、Google、Esri、Ansys、FOX Sports、 The Weather Company、 GE Aerospace、 MathWorks、 CAE、 Trimble、 そして DroneDeployなど、多くの企業に採用されています。Cesium ionも月間30,000人以上のアクティブ・ユーザーから3億回以上のリクエストを受けています。Cesiumはオープンソースへの継続的な投資を通じて、コミュニティの拡大とともに、CesiumJS、Cesium for Unreal、Cesium for Unity、Cesium for Omniverseといったランタイムエンジンを活用し、新たな3D地理空間アプリケーションの迅速な開発を可能にし続けています。

また、現在以下のようなニーズに限りないほどの強い需要がある状況です。

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Bentleyの一員として、私たちはBentleyの最先端技術を活用し、3D地理空間コミュニティ全体を根本的に強化・拡大していく機会を得ています。

Cesiumはこれまでも常にコミュニティの声を指針としてきました。今回のロードマップに掲げたテーマについても、皆さんのフィードバックをぜひお寄せください：

リアリティモデリングおよびAI解析サービスのCesium ionへの統合

iTwinプラットフォームAPI／サービスをCesium経由で利用可能にする

VRAI Delivers Virtual All-Domain Environment with Cesium for Unreal

Cesiumが拓く、3D可視化による防災の未来：国連・東京大学・SpaceDataの国際連携

Cesium Releases in November 2025

Introducing Google Maps 2D Tiles in Cesium ion

Cesium Releases in October 2025

Cesium Releases in September 2025

人工環境と自然環境の統合に向けたCesiumの技術ロードマップ