Wednesday, 12 January 2000: 4:30 PM
Recent advances in sensors and platforms supporting
remote, towed, and moored observations have resulted
in environmental data sets which are rapidly increasing
in size and complexity. Scientists, educators, students
and program managers must have the ability to interact
with these data sets in a way that is understandable,
repeatable, and perhaps most importantly share-able.
New paradigms of information visualization are rapidly
evolving to provide an integrated approach to visual
exploration, analysis, synthesis, and dissemination of
georeferenced data sets. For example, concurrent
advances in graphical, computational, and networking
technologies have made possible the implementation of
realistic, three-dimensional collaborative virtual
environments (CVEs). These computer-generated 3-D
representations allow multiple users to simulataneously
interact with data streams from archived repositories,
numerical simulations, real-time remote instrumentation,
and other sources in an intuitive visual manner
independent of the location of the user or data. We
will describe current and future uses of CVEs as a
strategic framework supporting visual analysis and
knowledge discovery for Earth science systems.
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